Thursday, July 9, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Activist lawyer, former investigator at Human Rights Watch and now President of the Open Society Foundations (founded by George Soros), Binaifer Nowrojee, will address their mission as the world’s largest private funder to protect human rights. She will focus on the challenges to the future of human rights in the face of rising authoritarianism, laws to […]
Sunday, July 12, 2026 @ 9:30 am – Click here to register.
Sunday, July 12, 2026 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Join us for an opening reception to launch local artist Ellen Liman’s exhibit. The exhibit will run from Thursday, July 9, through Thursday, July 30, with 100% of the proceeds from purchases benefitting the Hebrew Center. For more information, please contact diane@mvhebrewcenter.org or 508-693-0745.
Sunday, July 12, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:10 pm – Directed by award-winning filmmaker Yoav Potash this powerful documentary plays like a real-life murder mystery, excavating buried truths of violence, complicity, and silence. In the small Polish town of Gniewoszów, the erased history of neighbors bound by ties of love and betrayal are brought to life through stunning animation enriched with touches of magical realism. […]
Thursday, July 16, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Political Substack host/interviewer/journalist/podcaster and former CNN White House Correspondent John Harwood in conversation with tenacious and fearless Miami Herald investigative reporter, Julie K. Brown, who broke the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking story, winner of two George Polk Awards for Justice Reporting, who pursues the story to this day.
Sunday, July 19, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:03 pm – Natalie Braun’s anti-war film offers a poetic and politically urgent exploration of maternal refusal. An eerily prescient work, OXYGEN follows a mother’s radical act of resistance as she attempts to stop her son from crossing the border into war. At a moment when the human cost of military conflict is being debated globally, this mother and son, […]
Tuesday, July 21, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – AI is transforming warfare in profound ways: deciding who to target and influencing what we see and believe. This talk explores the human rights stakes of autonomous weapons and AI-driven disinformation — and what the law, platforms, and public can do about it. Fred Abrahams worked on crises and conflicts for nearly 30 years at […]
Wednesday, July 22, 2026 @ 9:00 pm – Join us for a traditional chanting of Eicha (Lamentations) and candlelit service in commemoration of the destruction of the Temple and other tragedies in Jewish history.
Thursday, July 23, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – New York Times Foreign Affairs Opinion columnist,Thomas Friedman – insightful, candid, often controversial, always thought-inspiring, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and book author who will share his observations on globalization, Middle East politics, American politics, wars, and the state of the world…which will change enormously between now and the evening of his talk.