Event Highlight

Bestselling author Dr. Eric Braverman will discuss his book “Younger Brain, Sharper Mind” and his six-step plan for preserving and improving memory and attention at a WELL Health Symposium at the Kaplen JCC, Friday, June 1. VIP reception, 11 a.m.; program, 11:30; lunch, 1 p.m. Sharon Potolsky, (201) 408-1405 or well@jccotp.org.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Alternate Routes continues its one-on-one Legacies & Legends conversation series with a discussion with Israeli singer/songwriter/humanitarian David Broza at NJPAC. Broza will talk about his life, music, and peace activism in an unscripted conversation with Baraka Sele, NJPAC consulting producer and producer/creator of Alternate Routes.

(888) 466-5722), (973) 353-7054, or http://www.njpac.org

Sociologist Steven M. Cohen, research professor of Jewish social policy, Hebrew Union College, discusses the trends that are impacting American Jewish life today, at Temple Beth Rishon for its Food for Thought Distinguished Speaker Series. Sponsored by the Fred Emert Memorial Adult Education Fund. Breakfast buffet.

(201) 891-4466 or www.bethrishon.org

Rabbi Steve Golden leads a discussion on questions about Jewish matters at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades.

(201) 408-1426

Rabbi Neal Borovitz discusses his recent trip exploring the Jews of Cuba with the Retirees Group at Temple Avodat Shalom.

(201) 489-2463, ext. 202 or www.avodatshalom.net

Hannah Kasher, the Ivan Meyer Visiting Scholar in Comparative Jewish Law at Cardozo and an associate professor of Jewish philosophy at Bar-Ilan University, tackles “On Ultimate Punishment According to Jewish Philosophy: Between R. Saadia Gaon and Moses Mendelssohn,” for the annual Ivan Meyer Lecture in Jewish Law at Yeshiva University Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

(212) 790-0258 or www.cardozo.yu.edu/cjl

Robert Van Lierop, former Vanuatu Ambassador to the United Nations, will give a first hand account of the crisis in Darfur, at the Glen Rock Jewish Center.

(201) 652-6624 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, Judaic scholar-in-residence at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, asks “Is Mordecai More Like Ben Gurion or Henry Kissinger?,” at the JCC. Free.

(201) 408-1426