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Thursday, December 7, 2023

A Hanukkah Gift from the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival


As Hanukkah approaches, we invite you to join us in supporting Jewish and Israeli Film in our community. Our 24th Annual NJ Jewish Film Festival is taking place from March 28 to April 14, 2024, and we are offering Sponsorships and Festival Supporter Passes to fund our lineup of exciting films and speakers.

 

Festival Supporter Passes give you access to every festival event and make for wonderful Hanukkah gifts! For businesses, our Sponsorship opportunities provide excellent advertising options, with your ad running before every festival film.

And now for your Hanukkah gift: Join us at the J on December 24 for our belated Hanukkah present to you: a ray of Israeli sunshine! We guarantee you will leave happy. You can access tickets by clicking the image below.

Happy Hanukkah from JCC MetroWest! See you at the movies!

FINALIST PLAYS ANNOUNCED in the 13th Annual Jewish Playwriting Contest 


 

Reinventing Jewish Theater. 

 


A HANNUKAH GIFT FROM THE JPP: GREAT NEW JEWISH PLAYS

 

The JPP board and staff, with the amazing leadership of Contest Dramaturg Heather Helinsky and Associate Artistic Director Joshua Benghiat are extremely proud to announce

THE 13th ANNUAL JEWISH PLAYWRITING CONTEST FINALISTS

 

The Last Yiddish Speaker

by Deborah Zoe Laufer (Mount Kisco, NY)
In a post-insurrection, Christian America, an ancient Yiddish-speaking woman is deposited on Hannah and Paul's doorstep. Should they hide her, or save themselves?

 

Memoriam

by Noga Flaishon (London, UK)
Memoriam, Inc. buys and sells memories, digitizing them for mass-viewership. Now they are after the memories of the last Holocaust survivor.

 

Olga's Strike

by Abigail Henkin
A headstrong, young, Russian-Jewish woman decides to unionize her brother-in-law's dress shop.

 

Osher and the Infinite Curtain

by Elisa Wein (New York, NY)
Tech, online life, and Kabbalah meet in this loose adaptation of "The Dybbuk". 

 

The Reservoir

by Jake Brasch (Denver, CO)
A lost, queer, neurotic mess of a twenty-something moves home to get sober. Struggling with memory loss, he finds unlikely allies in his four grandparents.

 

Why This Night: A Typical
19th Century Queer Shtetl Seder Murder Mystery!

by Dan Kitrosser (Philadelphia, PA)
It's like if Agatha Christie, John Waters and Tevye the Milkman had an orgy, but with m-OY-der!

 

Plus, Special Additional Finalist*

 

Conversa

by Joanna Castle-Miller (Beacon, NY)
We're thrilled to support Joanna, a previous JPP Finalist in this moving and funny solo piece evangelism, conversion, and migration across history. 

 

 


 

 WE ARE SO LUCKY TO ADD 18 AMAZING SEMIFINALISTS

 

Writers in 34 states and 4 countries submitted plays this year, which were read by an astonishing panel of 92 Artist Panel Readers with depth and passion, creating a true community unearthing the best Jewish stories of our age. These readers also recognized 18 semifinalist plays. 

 

 


 

EXPERIENCE THESE PLAYS WITH US

 

Be among the first to dive into these plays by becoming a JPP Community Reader! Read and discuss them with other Jewish story lovers. Just sign up here and we'll get you placed on a Community Panel in the spring!

 

 


 

Give the JPP a Hannukah gift and support the future of Jewish theater today!

 

HAPPY NEW PLAYS AND HAPPY HANNUKAH TO ALL!

 

* Conversa will receive developmental support, but will not compete in the Contest


 

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Just Added: Comedian Pete Davidson - December 16

 

 

JUST ADDED!

 

SPECIAL ONE NIGHT PERFORMANCE BY TODAY'S HOTTEST COMEDIAN!

 

ON SALE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, AT 10 AM

 

 

PETE DAVIDSON LIVE!

DECEMBER 16 10:00 PM

 

Pete Davidson is the creator, executive producer, writer and star of Peacock’s critically acclaimed comedy “Bupkis.” He was a cast member on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” from 2014-2022, where his singular Weekend Update features and original music videos garnered millions of views.

 

Davidson shot his first one-hour stand-up special for Comedy Central in 2016 and was named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 the same year. He was listed as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2022.

 

In 2020, Davidson co-wrote, executive produced, and starred in the critically acclaimed film “The King of Staten Island.” Additional film work includes “Trainwreck,” “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” “Big Time Adolescence,” “Set It Up,” “Meet Cute,” and “Bodies Bodies Bodies.”

 

See him perform an intimate late-night set at the Shea Center.

Beer and wine will be available for purchase during the performance.

 

Location: Shea Center for Performing Arts

Admission: Diamond $129 Gold Circle $99 • Orchestra/Front Loge $79 Rear Loge $59

 

Standard discounts or special offers do not apply to this event.

 


 

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS

2023-24 PERFORMANCE SEASON

 

Top of the World:

A Carpenters Christmas Show

December 17

 

Sunjata Kamalenya:

The Story of the True Lion King of Africa

February 10, 2024

 

Step Afrika!

February 13, 2024

 

The Robert Cray Band:

Groovin' 50 Years!

February 16, 2024

 

Magic of Lyn

February 17, 2024

 

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

March 14, 2024

 

Colin Hay Live

April 3, 2024

 

Keiko Matsui

April 6, 2024

 

A Golden Oldies Extravaganza

April 19, 2024

 

 


 

 

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