If you haven’t caught Hershey Felder’s homage to the late great Jewish composer Irving Berlin, this is your last chance. “Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin” is the talented musician’s one-man show recalling Berlin’s rise from Lower East Side Jewish immigrant to one of America’s best-loved songwriters. Closes Sunday!
Acclaimed Israeli writer Etgar Keret’s short stories deal with the absurdist humor and surreal elements of daily life. He joins Berkeley writer Ayelet Waldman, who’s written about bad mothers, the criminal justice system and her own LSD microdosing, for “The Dark and the Surreal” — sure to be a provocative conversation. 7 p.m. Sunday at the Osher Marin JCC.
And yet another Sunday event: Wish Israel a belated happy birthday at an Israeli street fair party at Stanford Hillel. Drinks, food and dancing at this 21-and-over celebration presented by Moishe House Palo Alto as well as other Jewish young adult groups. Fun gets underway at 7 p.m. on the patio of the Ziff Center for Jewish Campus Life.
Unless one has some special reason for advocating BDS and puffing up the egos of those who advocate it, it would make some sense to be elsewhere than at the Osher Marin JCC for this.
Also one should ask, is presenting BDS advocacy speakers really what the Osher Marin JCC is supposed to be doing with Jewish resources? Why is it that JCC’s seem so readily to fall under the influence of enemies of Israel?