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
Tags: 3GNY, Black Box Theater, Broadway, Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, New York, The Soap Myth, Theatre
Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Soho House
29-35 Ninth Avenue (betw. 13th and 14th Streets)
New York City
**The screening is SOLD OUT**
**Doors open at 7:15 p.m., the film will start promptly at 7:30 p.m.**
Join us for a special opportunity to view Sarah’s Key at a private screening with the 3GNY community. Following the movie, you are welcome to join the group at a nearby bar for conversation, drinks, and snacks (location TBD).
This award-winning film is about an American journalist who uncovers a secret researching a piece about the roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942. With flashbacks, the film tells the story of a young girl’s experiences during this roundup, including the participation of the French bureaucracy, army and citizens in aiding and abetting the Nazis. It also tells the story about a farmer, his wife, and others, who hid and protected Jews from Vichy authorities, the Germans, and French collaborators. For further information, visit: http://weinsteinco.com/sites/sarahs-key/.
This event is SOLD OUT!
For more information, please email info@3gnewyork.org
Sunday, October 17, 2010
JCC in Manhattan
Shira Ginsburg’s performance from her play “Bubby’s Kitchen” was amazing. Shira is the cantor at East End Temple, as well as the creator and producer of “Bubby’s Kitchen” a musical memoir about coming of age in a family of fighters and survivors.
We thank her and all those who joined us for lunch on a lovely afternoon.
September 28, 2008
We attended a Sunday afternoon performance of “To Paint the Earth,” about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Inspired by first-hand accounts of the Jewish Underground in the Warsaw Ghetto, To Paint the Earth explores how a broken community was brought to one of history’s most stunning and inexplicable decisions — to fight a last battle they had no chance of winning.
Following the performance, a group of us went to a nearby cafe to discuss the play, and hang out.
”To Paint the Earth” starred one of our own members, Lauren Lebowitz. Lauren is also the writer and assistant director.
The musical won the prestigious 2004 Richard Rodgers Development Award, chosen by a committee chaired by Stephen Sondheim.
August 14, 2007
We attended a performance of fellow member Joan Fishman’s one-woman play, “Walking in His Footsteps”. This very personal, semi-autobiographical play is based on Joan’s childhood experiences with her grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, who never spoke of the fate of his family during the war.
After the show, we joined Joan and other group members at a nearby lounge for a post-discussion.
More About the Show: The play was selected to be part of the NYC Fringe Festival that began August 10th. The play’s main content is about Joan’s looking into the past to find clues about her grandfather’s mysterious history: growing up as a Jew in Lithuania, escaping the fate of his family during the Holocaust, meeting her grandmother in a Displaced Persons camp in Munich, and coming to America to start a new life. Yiddish text and song, as well as evocative images projected on a screen are all part of the performance.
NY-based writer Malka Percal recently wrote on her blog “Jewess” about Joan. In the interview, they discussed the play, her other work and 3GNY. Jewess is a blog about Jewish women’s issues.
April 19, 2007
A group of us met up at Helen’s Restaurant in Chelsea to see a performance unlike anything we’ve seen: Kleynkunst! Warsaw’s brave and brilliant Yiddish Cabaret. As Generation X and Y’ers, we rarely experience Yiddish in forms like cinema, theater or Klezmer, let alone cabaret. The songs, in both Yiddish and English, offered us a glimpse of one of the most unique periods in Jewish history. Spanning the 20s and 30s, Yiddish Cabaret reflected the sophistication, as well as the politics and changing social status of Warsaw’s Jews.
In the Warsaw Ghetto, Jews, imprisoned, starved and faced with death, showed their will to live by clandestinely putting on cabaret shows. This was a form of resistance, alongside the armed resistance that began soon after. In fact, this show was performed in honor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which began on the same date, 64 years ago. Following the performance, we were able to meet and talk with the performers, Rebecca Joy Fletcher and Stephen Mo Hanan.
For two wonderful reviews of Kleynkunst, please read 3GNY’s Rivka Schiller’s reviews in the Yiddish Forward, from February 16, 2007 and March 2, 2007.
July 26, 2006
Thanks to everyone from the group who made it to this performance of “A Jew Grows in Brooklyn”.
Also, thanks for taking part in the special Q&A with Jake Ehrenreich after the show. We look forward to seeing everyone at future events.
