Sunday, July 26, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:03 pm – Screening held at the Film Center Director Shai Carmeli Pollak tells the story of a boy from a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank who sets out to see the sea for the first time, not knowing the language or the way. When his father, Ribhi, an undocumented laborer working in Israel, learns that […]
Thursday, July 30, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson addresses the state of national and international security (and insecurity) in today’s fragile world. In addition, as Co-chair of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University, the unprecedented challenges and threats facing our leading universities.
Sunday, August 2, 2026 @ All Day – If you feel moved by Rabbi Broitman’s work, please consider making a gift to Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center in her honor to one of the following funds: Music Fund: Donate Here Jewish Learning and Programming Fund: Donate Here General Fund: Donate Here Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund: Donate Here
Sunday, August 2, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm –
Join us for Torah study and desserts this Tikkun Leil Shavuot
Monday, August 3, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Released in 1936, I Have Sinned (Al Khet) was the first Yiddish sound film made in Poland, and marks the film debut of the Polish-Jewish comedy team Dzigan and Schumacher ( known as the Yiddish Abbot and Costello). Unseen for generations until its new rescue and restoration by The National Center for Jewish Film, I Have Sinned […]
Thursday, August 6, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Social commentator/culture observer Van Jones, political analyst, lawyer, civil rights advocate, bestselling author, CNN host (Crossfire, Messy Truth, The Redemption Project), President Obama’s Special Advisor for Green Jobs, visiting fellow at Princeton University, founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Color of Change, and the Dream Corps, social justice accelerator, and more – takes […]
Sunday, August 9, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:08 pm – Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) examines Spiegelman’s “irreverent” life, his artistic partnership with wife Françoise Mouly, and the development of his groundbreaking graphic novel Maus. Premiering at DOC NYC 2024, the film covers his underground comix roots, New Yorker covers, and 9/11 experiences as he emerges as a leading advocate for free speech […]
Monday, August 10, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Conversation Followed by Q&A and Reception Rabbi Buchdahl has often felt like “the stranger” throughout her journey to becoming a rabbi, but rather than solely an isolating, painful experience, it has also been a source of growth and connection. In a time when many minority groups in America have felt marginalized or outside the tent, […]
Thursday, August 13, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – The New York Times Puzzle-Makers: Joel Fagliano, who interned with Times crossword puzzle editor (and folk hero), Will Shortz, and is now the lead puzzle editor and creates the Mini-Puzzle (5×5), with Wyna Liu, who went with her mother, on a 7-night Times “crossword cruise,” and met Joel, who inspired her to create her own puzzles, and today creates/edits […]