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“I am Carrying the Holocaust in my Pocket” Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion

 “I am Carrying the Holocaust in my Pocket” documentary screening & panel discussion with Producer & Director, Dr. Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 7pm-9pm

JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue @ 76th St., New York, NY 10023

Event ticket: $36 per person — Purchase Event Ticket here

“I am Carrying the Holocaust in my Pocket” is a 1-hour documentary based on a ten-week therapy group for grandchildren of survivors led by Dr. Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg, a psychoanalyst and child of survivors, during the winter and spring of 2011. The film portrays the multiple voices of four third-generation women — a writer, dancer, singer and social work student — who speak candidly about their grandparents’ stories of trauma and survival, and the impact it had on their lives. The interviews are interwoven with clips taken from the women’s art.

3GNY Outing to Off Broadway Play “The Soap Myth”

The Soap Myth
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
8:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Black Box Theatre
111 W. 46th Street, NYC
Tickets: $40 per person (normally $55, but use code “MYTH3G” for group discount)

Click HERE to register.

This is a special opportunity to join other 3Gs together to see a new off-Broadway play called “The Soap Myth,” about a young investigative journalist who works to unravel a story about the Holocaust and combat deniers. The show is a serious investigation of history, but it is also a very touching and human story about the friendship between the journalist and a Holocaust survivor.

We have a discounted group rate for our group, and after the play we’re invited to participate in an exclusive Q&A session with the play’s director Jeff Cohen. Light refreshments and snacks will be served.

For more information on the play, visit thesoapmyth.com

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3GNY Intergenerational Brunch

3GNY Intergenerational Brunch
Sunday, April 29, 2012
12 – 3 pm
Congregation Chasam Sopher
10 Clinton St., Lower East Side, New York City

Price: $36 per person

Purchase tickets HERE

3GNY invites you, your parents, grandparents, siblings and friends to our fifth annual Intergenerational Brunch. We are honored to have special guest speaker Anna Pasternak, who will share her story of survival and perseverance. Enjoy a delicious catered brunch as well as a tour of the 150 year old synagogue Chasam Sopher.

Kosher Dietary Laws Observed

About Anna Pasternak:

Anna Pasternak was born in Zbydniow, a village in Southern Poland. In early October 1939, the Germans invaded, occupied the area, and a few days later Anna, her parents and two younger brothers were expelled from their home and ordered to go East. For eight months they lived in Janow, a small town near Lemberg (currently Lvov, Ukraine). In July 1940, Soviet soldiers came at night, loaded them into cattle cars and sent them to labor camps in Siberia together with thousands of others. After Siberia and some wanderings the family lived in Kazakhstan for four years. In 1946 they returned to Poland to discover the horrors of the Holocaust, yet the family never returned to their ancestral hometown. Anna came to the U.S. in 1955, where she became an active member of several Jewish organizations. She speaks several languages, has taught nursery school and for the past 30 years has been actively involved in the real estate business.

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Food for Thought: Recipes Remembered Book Talk and Cooking Demonstration

Featuring June Hersh, author of Recipes Remembered, A Celebration of Survival

Thursday, March 29, 2012, 6:30 p.m.

The Jewish Museum
Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street
New York City

Thank you for joining us for this wonderful evening!

The books purchased in advance will be available for pickup at the event, and books will also be on sale at the event. June will be autographing the books that evening. Proceeds from book sales benefit the Museum of Jewish Heritage and 3GNY.

Thank you for joining us for this delicious and lively evening focused on food and storytelling with June Hersh, author of Recipes Remembered, A Celebration of Survival. June discussed her book, including some of the stories, and there was Q&A following. Her presentation is tailored specifically for the 3G audience, so this is a special opportunity exclusively for our group.

After we heard from June, Executive Chef David Teyf of LOX at the Jewish Museum showed us how to prepare some recipes from and inspired by June’s book.

Recipes Remembered is a cookbook and collection of stories wrapped into one. To create it, June personally interviewed over 80 Holocaust survivors and their families. Along the way, she discovered remarkable and uplifting stories of strength and resilience. The recipes in the book are authentic and include culinary creations from all around the world. To learn more about June and her book, visit JuneHersh.com, or view a great Fox News interview from December 2011.

For more information, please e-mail info@3gnewyork.org or visit www.3gnewyork.org.

Dietary laws observed

3GNY Winter Shabbat Dinner

Friday, January 27, 2012, 7:30 p.m.3GNY Winter Shabbat Dinner
You are also invited to attend optional Shabbat services at 6:30 p.m.

Congregation Habonim
44 West 66th Street (between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue)
New York City

The dinner is now SOLD OUT!

Join the 3GNY community for its Winter Shabbat Dinner at a landmark rich with history and relevance. Congregation Habonim was started by German Jews who fled Europe after Kristallnacht, and the synagogue remains a vibrant place to this day.

Special guest speaker and Holocaust survivor John Keller of Mainz, Germany, one of Habonim’s long standing congregants, joined the temple in 1946 and is still very active there. Mr. Keller will speak with us about his experiences during Kristallnacht. Afterward, he escaped to the United States, fought in World War II for America, and then came back to settle in New York City.

We hope you can join us for this special opportunity.

If you have any questions, please e-mail info@3gnewyork.org.