Special Events

Here’s a list of upcoming special events at CBE. For a more comprehensive list of events, click here.

It’s time for the Purim Masquerade Gala, Saturday, March 3, 8:00 p.m. to midnight! Join us to celebrate and honor Congregation Beth Elohim with an exotic evening inspired by the sights, sounds and smells of a Persian Bazaar. Prepare for a night of dancing, drinking, live entertainment, and surprise guests. Click here to learn more!

Please also join us for our other special Purim festivities, such as our Megillah readings on Wednesday, March 7, and our Purim Carnival, Sunday, March 11!

Please join us for a FREE workshop sponsored by JBFCS Partners In Caring: Caring for Loved Ones with Alzheimer’s and Dementia

Where: Congregation Beth Elohim
When: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Time: 7:30 p.m.

Join us as we examine the different manifestations of dementia and its progression, and how it affects the behavior of those with Alzheimer’s and related disorders. An expert presenter will explore how best to care for our loved ones as their behavior and personality changes, and how to take care of ourselves in the process.

For more information on this workshop, contact Gloria Blumenthal at 212-632-4676 or Gblumenthal@jbfcs.org. RSVP to Lauren Shenkman at LShenkman@cbebk.org or 718-768-3814, ext. 242.

Please click here to view or download the flier for this event.

What: A Special One-Hour Screening of Clinton
Where: CBE
When: Thursday, March 1, 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $10 Suggested Donation (we ask that you RSVP)
RSVP: Lauren Shenkman, (718) 768-3814 ext. 242, lshenkman@cbebk.org

Please join us for a special one-hour screening of the new American Experience documentary Clinton, with filmmaker Barak Goodman and a panel of distinguished guests, Josh King, former director of production for presidential events in the Clinton White House, Nicholas Lemann, Dean and Henry R. Luce professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and Bernard Nussbaum, White House Counsel to President Clinton. The discussion will be moderated by Rabbi Andy Bachman, Senior Rabbi at Congregation Beth Elohim.

About the Filmmaker: Barak Goodman‘s films have been nominated for an Academy Award and won multiple Emmys and Writers Guild Awards, DuPont-Columbia and Peabody Awards, the RFK Journalism Prize, and twice been official selections at the Sundance Film Festival. His films appear regularly on both of PBS’s premiere series, FRONTLINE, and American Experience. His latest film, a four-hour biography of former President Bill Clinton, will air on two consecutive nights in February. Before that, My Lai won a National Primetime Emmy and a Peabody Award. Among his other credits as a producer, director, and writer are The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, A Hidden Life, Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, Kinsey, The Fight, and Scottsboro: An American Tragedy. He is the co-founder with wife Rachel Dretzin of Ark Media, one of the most prolific producers of documentary films in America.

Josh King is senior vice president, group marketing and communications, for Willis Group, the world’s third largest insurance broker. Preceding his roles in corporate communications, King worked in Washington, D.C. in government, political consulting and the private sector. From 1993 to 1997, he served as director of production for presidential events in the Clinton White House. After leaving government, King was on the team that launched the political website SpeakOut.com in the midst of the 2000 presidential election. More information is available at polioptics.com.

Nicholas Lemann is Dean and Henry R. Luce professor at the Columbia University Graduate School. He has worked at the Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic Monthly. Lemann contributes to The New Yorker as a staff writer. He has published five books, most recently Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (2006); The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (1999), which helped lead to a major reform of the SAT; and The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991), which won several book prizes.

CBE is a proud participant in the UJA-Federation of New York’s Connect to Care program: “Connect to Care takes aim at the impact of the economic downturn in the Jewish community throughout all of New York City. This program provides a broad array of coordinated services designed to offer you and your family the help you need where and when you need it. Services are easy to access, discreet, and comprehensive, addressing a broad range of challenges you or your family may be facing.”

Some classes and programs take place at CBE; many events are hosted elsewhere. Click here for a current list of all ongoing Connect to Care events.

Click here for more information about Connect to Care on the website of the UJA-Federation of New York.