Local cantors who participated in the mission featured in the film include, from left, Cantors David Perper, Faith Steinsnyder, Ilan Mamber, and Sam Weiss.
NCM Fathom and Mod Three Productions present “100 Voices: A Journey Home,” on Tuesday, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m., in 500 select movie theaters nationwide. Locally the film will be screened at the AMC Garden State 16 in Paramus and the AMC Clifton Commons 16. The two-hour musical documentary highlights “Poland to Israel: A Journey Through Time,” the Cantors Assembly Foundation’s historic mission to Poland and Israel last summer with 70 cantors including local Cantors Sam Weiss of the Jewish Community Center of Paramus, Faith Steinsnyder of The Village Temple in Manhattan and her husband, David Perper of Beth Haverim-Shir Shalom in Mahwah, and Ilan Mamber of Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff. Tickets at participating box offices or www.FathomEvents.com. Trailer at www.100voicesmovie.com.
Leonard Cole, an expert on bioterrorism and terror medicine, an adjunct professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark, author, and former UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey president, speaks at the UJA-NNJ Shabbat service at Temple Emanuel of North Jersey. He will discuss “Community Building: Federation, Birthright and Israel.”
Temple Avodat Shalom offers the Lillian Vitello study day, “Beyond the Red Thread: Jewish Magic and Folklore,” with scholar-in-residence Rabbi Lawrence Troster. “Wrestling with the Torah” with Rabbis Troster and Neil Borovitz is 9:30 a.m., Shabbat service at 10:30, and lunch and learning program at noon. Troster is director of the fellowship program and rabbinic scholar-in-residence for GreenFaith, the interfaith environmental coalition in New Jersey. Free, but reservations are required for lunch.
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The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/ Cong. B’nai Israel hosts a “Family Fun Night and Chanukah Dance.” Soundtrax DJ will entertain. Cost: $6 per person, with $25 family maximum. Reservations required, no walk-ins will be accepted.
The New City Jewish Center presents “Cabaret 09,” a night of music and comedy with its cantor, Hal Jeffrin, and comedians Jon Fisch and Dan Naturman. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., show at 8. Dessert buffet. Tickets: $36 in advance, $40 at door. BYO kosher wine.
Singer, songwriter, and cantor Shira Ginsburg presents the New York premiere of “Bubby’s Kitchen” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial To The Holocaust. Event benefits East End Temple, where Ginsburg serves as cantor. Also Sunday at 2 p.m.
To mark the 19th of Kislev, Rabbi Manis Friedman, a world-renowned author, counselor, lecturer, and philosopher, shares the “mystical power of Jewish story and humor,” along with live music and dinner, at Lubavitch on the Palisades.
The sisterhood of Temple Beth El of Northern Valley hosts “Comedy Night” featuring Johnny Lampert and Dena Blizzard. Doors open at 8 p.m.; show begins at 8:30. Cost: $36 per person. Light refreshments. BYOB.
The Thurnauer Chamber Music Society at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades opens its season with a concert featuring Beethoven and Brahms music and honoring Eva Holzer, who along with her husband, Erich, was a major benefactor of the Thurnauer Chamber Music Society from the start. Concert with violinists Sharon Roffman and Annaliesa Place, cellist Yari Bond, clarinetist Richard Goldsmith, and pianist Jon Klibonoff.
Vlada Tomova’s “Balkan Tales” is performed by Matt Darriau of the Klezmatics and the vocal quartet Lila at the Puffin Cultural Forum. $10 suggested donation. Reservations recommended.
The Park Avenue Synagogue hosts an “Evening of Celebration” with Chief Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, Cantor Paul Zim of Cong. Gesher Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee, conducted by Mordechai Sobol, with the Park East Synagogue Choir and pianist Cantor Daniel Gildar.
