Sixty-Plus Dining
Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:45 to 6 p.m.
Full-course kosher dinners for those 60 and older. Reservations taken until 9:30 a.m. the day of the meal. Suggested donation: $5 per person. Guest under 60 pays $9.
Senior chorale
Thursdays, 1 to 3 p.m.
Welcoming new chorale members.
Chorale Director/Accompanist: Carole McGowan
Rehearsals at the JCC and performances at nursing homes, senior residences take place on Thursday afternoons.
$2 suggested donation per session
Eye on the World
Current events discussion group with guest moderators
Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 12:30pm
$2 suggested donation per session
Fun and Fitness to the Songs of Broadway
A fun, gentle exercise class
Thursdays, 10:15 to 10:45 a.m.
Instructor: Richard Feldman
$2 suggested donation per session
Line and circle dancing from Eastern Europe and the Near East
Mondays, 3 to 4:30 p.m.
No partners needed.
Dance Instructors: Ken Grau and Don Treble
$2 suggested donation per session
Watercolor classes
For beginning and continuing students
Tuesdays, 1 to 3 p.m., May 1, 8, 15, 22
Instructor: Diane E. Bollman-Buyer, watercolorist
$16 for the series prepaid
Bus trips
•“Present Company Excluded,” Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Mass.
Sunday, May 6
Based on a true life story of Herbert Roth, this bold new play is about a young Jewish boy living in a small farming village in Germany in the years leading up to Kristallnacht.
Box lunch from Price Chopper’s Ben & Bill’s Deli before the 2 p.m. performance
Select half sandwich: turkey breast, corned beef or tuna salad
Depart Albany JCC 9 a.m. Return to JCC approximately 5:45 p.m.
$67 per person prepaid
•The Taffetas, Warner Theatre, Torrington, Conn.
Sunday, June 10
A musical tribute to the girl groups of the 1950s, four singing sisters are on a journey to make it big.
Noon lunch, Zia Maria Ristorante, Canaan
Select entrée: spaghetti and meatballs, eggplant parm or cheese ravioli
2 p.m. show
Depart Albany JCC 10 a.m. Return to JCC approximately 6:30 p.m.
$87 per person prepaid
•Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate, Mac Haydn Theatre, Chatham
Sunday, July 29,
Noon pizza party, LaBella’s, Valatie
2 p.m. performance
Depart Albany JCC: 11:20am Return to JCC: approx. 5:30pm
$73.50 per person prepaid
NEW HAVEN, CT 3- Day Getaway
Wednesday, August 15 –Friday, August 17, 2012
Trip package includes:
· Deluxe motor coach bus transportation
· 2 nights’ stay –Hampton Inn, West Haven, CT
· 2 breakfasts, 3 lunches, 2 dinners (all meals)
· Documentary film and talk
· 2 musical theatre performances
· Guided tours: Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University Center for British Art
· Slide lecture of “The Amistad Incident”
· Optional mini-brewery tour and beer sampling
Depart Albany JCC: 8:40am Wednesday, August 15 Return to JCC: Approx. 4pm Friday, August 17
Single: $609 double: $485
Prepaid nonrefundable reservation before trip fills.
2012 JULES AND PAULA STEIN Live and Learn Lecture-Meal Series
Thursdays JCC Member: $13 per lecture -meal Guest: $14 per lecture –meal
Prepaid registration required. Request a detailed program flyer from the Albany JCC’s senior adult office.
11am -1pm May 3 Speaker: Hella Winston, sociologist and journalist
UNCHOSEN: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels Book sale/signing included.
11am -1pm June 7 Speaker: Lisa Lipkin, professional storyteller and founder, Story Strategies
A NEW YORKER’S GUIDE TO THE BIBLE: A Collection of Original Midrashim
11am -1pm June 21 Speaker: Gal Beckerman, journalist and opinion editor, The Forward Newspaper
WHEN THEY COME FOR US, WE’LL BE GONE: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry Book sale/signing included.
5 -7pm July 12 Speaker: Michael Harrison, editor and publisher, Talkers Magazine
ISRAEL & ITS IMAGE IN THE AMERICAN MEDIA: A Complicated Message
