Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center
SDIJFF Midseason Film Screening: Matchmaking
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA, United StatesSDIJFF Midseason Film Screening: Matchmaking Moti Bernstein is the son every mother wants, the student every Rabbi loves to teach, the ideal Yeshiva Bucher, the perfect match for every bride. He has it all: a good family, a brilliant mind, and he’s not bad looking either. In search of a wife, he meets the best […]
An Evening with Al Franken
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA, United StatesFrom 15 years with Saturday Night Live, to nearly a decade in the Senate, to now host of one of the nation’s top political and public-affairs podcasts, Al Franken entertains and enlightens as he discusses his far-ranging career in comedy and public service.
Remembrance Reading – I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA, United StatesThe play centers on Raja Englanderova, one of the children who survived Terezin, and her family, friends, and classmates. She shares her story of living in the concentration camp, while retaining a world filled with butterflies and flowers with other children in the camp.
J’Accuse! A Film and Community Event
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA, United StatesIn this special community event, we join together the award-winning film J’Accuse! and a conversation between the film’s two main subjects - Silvia Foti, author of Storm in the Land of Rain: A Mother’s Dying Wish Becomes Her Daughter’s Nightmare, and Grant Gochin, an American philanthropist, journalist, politician, and activist of Jewish South African descent […]
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: THE MUSICAL
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA, United StatesPlunge into this stunning all-singing, all-dancing, dynamic stage show! When the citizens of Bikini Bottom discover that a volcano will soon erupt and destroy their humble home, SpongeBob andhis friends must come together to save the fate of their undersea world. With lives hanging in the balance and all hope lost, a most unexpected hero […]
The Maury & Lillian Novak Distiguished Author Series: The American Way
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA, United StatesAfter many years, the Maury & Lillian Novak Distinguished Author Series returns with a bang! Kicking off this exciting season is Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler’s The American Way, which follows two men - Jules Schulback and DC Comics publisher Harry Donenfeld on a true-life adventure exploring glamorous Hollywood, the birth of the comic book […]
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: THE MUSICAL
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA, United StatesPlunge into this stunning all-singing, all-dancing, dynamic stage show! When the citizens of Bikini Bottom discover that a volcano will soon erupt and destroy their humble home, SpongeBob andhis friends must come together to save the fate of their undersea world. With lives hanging in the balance and all hope lost, a most unexpected hero […]
OUR SHABBAT TABLE WITH LEAH KOENIG
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA, United StatesJoin us for an author talk and Shabbat dinner with Leah Koenig, author of Portico: Cooking and Feasting in Rome’s Jewish Kitchen which features over 100 deeply flavorful recipes and beautiful photographs of Rome’s Jewish community, the oldest in Europe. The evening will include a Shabbat Dinner featuring Leah Koenig’s recipes that showcase the cuisine’s […]
JPLAYS WITH THE ROUSTABOUTS: Watch on the Rhine
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA, United StatesThe 2023-24 JPlays season kicks off with Lillian Hellman’s haunting Watch on the Rhine. This play tells the story of an idealistic German who, along with his family, flee’s Hitler’s Germany and finds sanctuary in America, only to return to his homeland and join the resistance movement in an effort to fight the unfolding fascism.
6th Annual Joyce Forum Jewish Short Film Festival
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA, United StatesThe JFJSFF is a three-day stand-alone film festival, featuring more than 24 short films from around the world. Films are arranged into five distinct programs, with each containing 3-6 short films.
SDIJFF Kickoff: The Way to Happiness
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA, United StatesPatrons of the New Manhattan deli in Brussels play movie trivia with Saul, owner and would-be filmmaker, as he deals with his past and tries to find love.
CJC Season Kick-Off: Broadway’s Own Seth Rudetsky
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA, United StatesSeth Rudetsky’s long list of Broadway honors include his work as pianist on over a dozen Broadway shows, co-writer and star of his very own musical DISASTER!, author of several renowned Broadway guidebooks and novels, and host of Sirius/XM Satellite Radio’s ON BROADWAY. In this Season Kickoff we welcome Seth in conversation with Artistic Director […]
