Verve Book Club: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
When Elwood Curtis, a Black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber […]
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FREE for members and non-members Come discuss the month’s social and political issues with your fellow news enthusiasts. With timely and changing international, national, and local issues from the news […]
JCC Book Club: The Light Between Oceans
The miraculous arrival of a child in the life of a barren couple delivers profound love but enormous risk and pain. M. L. Stedman's debut novel presents a story about […]
Death of a Bully: A Dramatic Courtroom Transcript Reading Pt. 2
Join Aytan Adler for the second part of the courtroom transcript roundtable reading, Death of a Bully. You’ll be assigned parts (judge, attorney, plaintiff, etc.) from an edited transcript of […]
Film Screening: “Trezoros: The Lost Greek Jews of Kastoria” (Dir. Larry Russo)
Using never-before-seen pre-war archival footage and first-person testimonies, Trezoros: The Greek Jews of Kastoria chronicles the Jewish life and culture of Kastoria, a picturesque lakeside village in the mountains of […]
Foreign Affairs Discussion Group: The Risks and Costs of Deglobalization
The world is in the midst of a sustained and strong backlash against globalization. While it delivered great prosperity and lifted millions out of poverty, it left many working class […]
