BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1974@wjcenter.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231208T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231208T210000 DTSTAMP:20231208T142011Z URL:https://www.wjcenter.org/events/3rd-annual-chocolate-oneg-and-author-t alk-with-steve-zeitlin-on-jewels/ SUMMARY:3rd Annual Chocolate Oneg and Author Talk with Steve Zeitlin on Jew els DESCRIPTION:5:30-6:00pm: ECC Community Shabbat Service\n\n6:00-7:00pm: Comm unity Shabbat Dinner\nThe entire WJC community is invited to join us for a Shabbat dinner. $18 per adult\, $10 per child\, $60 per family (max)\nRSV P: https://wjcenter.shulcloud.com/form/Rhythm-Ruach-December-8-2023\n\n7:3 0-8:30pm: Rhythm &\; Ruach\nMake WJC your home on Friday night. Join us for an hour-long service to welcome Shabbat\, reflect on the week\, and c onnect with God and with each other. Learn new melodies and sing your old favorites\, accompanied by our volunteer music ensemble.\n\n8:00pm: 3rd An nual Chocolate Oneg and Author Talk with Steve Zeitlin on Jewels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling\nPack­ing a suit­case re ady to go with 179 short retellings of his per­son­al favorites from tra ­di­tion­al folk­lore\, jokes\, and reminiscences\, Zeitlin shares wha t he groks as the ver­bal heart and full­ness­ness of Jew­ish expe­ri ­ence. He views Jews as cultural\, religious\, and his­tor­i­cal trav ­el­ers\, car­ry­ing their own sto­ries as well as the time-hon­ored \, forg­ing new con­nec­tions with encoun­ters. It’s the human­i­t y in the sto­ries and jokes which mat­ter to him.\n\nSteve Zeitlin is a folklorist\, writer\, cultural activist\, and the Founding Director of Ci ty Lore\, New York’s center for urban folk culture.  He received his P h.D. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania\, and is the author or coauthor of 10 award-winning books on America’s folk cult ure. His latest is JEWels: Teasing out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Sto rytelling (JPS). Others include The Poetry of Everyday Life: Storytelli ng and the Art of Awareness (Cornell)\, Because God Loves Stories: An An thology of Jewish Storytelling (Simon &\; Schuster)\, a volume of poet ry\, I Hear America Singing in the Rain (First Street Press) and three books for young readers. He coproduced the storytelling series American T alkers for NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and Morning Edition with Da ve Isay and is the recipient of the American Folklore Society’s Benjamin Botkin Award for lifetime achievement in public folklore.\n\nHis latest b ook\, JEWels\, is the first of its kind: the living tradition of Jewish st ories and jokes transformed into poems\, recording and reflecting Jewish e xperience from ancient times through the present day. In this novel hybrid —jokes and stories boiled down to their essence in short poems—Jewish witticism is preserved side by side with evocative storytelling and deepen ed with running commentary and questions for discussion.\n\nCopies of the book will be available for purchase on Friday evening using a Shabbat frie ndly system. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.wjcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023 /11/WJC-ChocolateOneg-2023.png CATEGORIES:Featured Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR