Talks & Entertainment

Safam

The Boston based six-man band has dominated Jewish music in America with their Jewish-American Sound since 1974. Often copied, never duplicated, they are originals. Songs like Leaving Mother Russia, Amnesty, Just Another Foreigner, Moranno and Nachamu Ami by group composers Joel Sussman and Robbie Solomon have become classics and have kept Safam at the forefront of the Jewish music scene.

Buzz Aldrin

In Conversation with Christina Korp

Half a century after walking on the moon, icon and astronaut Buzz Aldrin reflects on a lifetime of achievements and what he’s learned through it all in No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons from a Man Who Walked on the Moon.

Moby

In Conversation with Lisa Fletcher

In Porcelain, Moby recounts his path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor and unlikely success.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

In Conversation with Judy Woodruff

In The Gene, Mukherjee enumerates the realms transformed by the understanding of the gene: race and identity, sexuality, gender identity, sexual preference, illness, temperament, even free will.

Camp Sixth & I

Pack your bags for the third annual Jewish summer camp-inspired weekend at the idyllic Pearlstone Retreat Center. Experience a spiritual Shabbat service, a Saturday night bonfire and Havdallah, and more of Sixth & I’s signature programs—all set against the backdrop of the great outdoors.

Reagan, FX’s The Americans, and the 1980s

With Jacob Weisberg and Joe Weisberg

Jacob Weisberg, chairman of The Slate Group and author of a new biography about Ronald Reagan, speaks with his brother Joe, a former CIA agent and the creator of FX’s hit series The Americans about how ’80s politics and culture shaped our current landscape.

Running Club

Lace up your sneakers and hit the streets for a fun run around town, followed by a meal at a local eatery. Choose either a two-mile or four-mile route.

Faithfully Feminist

For women in their 20s and 30s

Contributors to the anthology Faithfully Feminist: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Feminists on Why We Stay discuss how to navigate faith and feminism.

Moira Weigel

In Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating, Weigel follows the concept of dating to its origin in the late 19th century and guides us back to the present for a lively history of how Americans – women, men, gay, straight, black, and white – have approached the public and private activities of love and sex.

Man’s Attempt at Thoughtfulness: Feelings

Combining spirituality, psychology, modern masculinity, and excellent bourbon, Rabbi Scott brings a group of men together to attempt some thoughtfulness about the new scientific advances in the area of “feelings.”