Events at the Center for New Jewish Culture
Events at the Center for New Jewish Culture
The Center for New Jewish Culture produces events through our own curatorial initiatives including events from our signature program, The New Jewish Culture Fellowship. The Center also hosts events with our community partners, in its historic location at 17 Eastern Parkway.
Niki Russ Federman & Josh Russ Tupper present, Russ & Daughters: 100 Years of Appetizing
September 18, 2025
7 PM | Doors open at 6 PM
Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper join us to present their cookbook, Russ & Daughters: 100 Years of Appetizing, in conversation with Daniel Squadron. Tickets include a copy of Russ & Daughters: 100 Years of Appetizing, which will be available for pickup at the event. Additional books will be for sale the night of the program.
This event is held in partnership with Community Bookstore and Congregation Beth Elohim.
Selichos/ Transformation
September 20
8:30 PM | Doors open at 8 PM
New music in the cantorial tradition for two voices and chamber orchestra by Jeremiah Lockwood.
Composed for and performed by Riki Rose and Yoel Kohn
Conducted by Alan Pierson
Commissioned by the Center for New Jewish Culture
PROTOCOLS: An Erasure
October 9
7 PM | Doors open at 6:30 PM
An urgent, poetic exploration of power, memory, belief, and the dangers and possibilities of language.
PROTOCOLS: An Erasure transforms the world’s most influential antisemitic document, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, into an erasure poem exploring essential questions of power, history, and language. By redacting words from the original document, Molnar created a book-length poem that breathes space and light into a text dense with hatred. She patiently uncovers the questions buried within the source text: What is the true nature of power, and how is it tied to a fear of the unknown? How can language, weaponized and eroded, also be a tool for healing? And how can silence help us reckon with history and shape the future?
Accompanying the poem, a lyric essay excavates the poet’s deep personal connection to the source text, weaving personal and collective history by traversing former concentration camps, immigrant communities in New York City, and remote desert wildernesses, and posing new possibilities for a less deterministic, more spacious and peaceful world.