August 2021
Preserving Your Harvest
Master gardener Tori Clark will share her expertise on how to preserve fresh fruit and veggies. Make the most of your garden or farmers market harvest and enjoy it for days or weeks to come! Bring your all gardening questions! Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84949438872?pwd=RzdYSmNPR3lsTkJPR2t6YkpITVphZz09 Meeting ID: 849 4943 8872 Passcode: 844363
Find out more »Creative Writing Annual Reading
Join us as we celebrate members of the long-running and beloved Creative Writing Group. Our members will read from their fiction, memoirs, essays and poetry. This will be an afternoon not to be missed. Join Zoom Meeting: Click Here Meeting ID: 826 7729 4886 Passcode: 540666
Find out more »September 2021
Are You New To Medicare?
Join an Educational Seminar offered for those planning to go on Medicare in the next year. Sheri Salloway Yarosh, MBA, licensed Insurance Agent from Partners Senior Advantage, will discuss general options for obtaining Medicare. This seminar is for you if you are: Turning 65 or are over 65 and going off your company’s health insurance plan. Not sure if you should go on Medicare or stay on your company’s plan. We will review the ABCs of Medicare. Types of Medicare…
Find out more »TC Talks! A Reckoning with Structural Racism: The Mapping Prejudice Project
The Mapping Prejudice project is leading communities in the work of mapping racial covenants. Racial covenants are clauses–a couple of lines of text–that were embedded into property deeds to bar people who were not white from buying or even occupying the parcels of land to which they were attached. Covenants were made illegal by the 1968 Fair Housing Act. But their legacy is particularly clear today in the Twin Cities, which has some of the largest racial disparities in the…
Find out more »September Book Group Discussion – The Guest Book: A Novel by Sarah Blake
An exquisitely written, poignant family saga that illuminates the great divide, the gulf that separates the rich and poor, black and white, Protestant and Jew. Spanning three generations, The Guest Book deftly examines the life and legacy of one unforgettable family as they navigate the evolving social and political landscape from Crockett’s Island, their family retreat off the coast of Maine. Blake masterfully lays bare the memories and mistakes each generation makes while coming to terms with what it means to inherit…
Find out more »October 2021
What’s New for Medicare in 2022?
What changes are anticipated for Medicare program recipients in 2022? Will the premiums for Part B increase? Do I need to compare my Medicare health plan and prescription drug plan with the new program options? What new benefits are being offered by various Medicare advantage programs? This seminar will address all these questions, but no specific plan data will be shared. Sheri Salloway Yarosh, MBA, is a licensed insurance agent from Partners Senior Advantage. Sheri has extensive knowledge, experience and…
Find out more »TC Talks! Riv Shapiro, Minnesota JCC’s New Arts & Culture Producer
TC Talks! Introducing Riv Shapiro, Minnesota JCC’s New Arts & Culture Producer and 2021 Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival Organizer Meet the JCC’s new Arts and Culture Producer, Riv Shapiro (they/them), as we approach opening weekend of the Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival! Most recently from the Bay Area in California, Riv is excited to return to their roots in Minneapolis. Get the inside scoop about the Film Festival curating process, a preview and behind the scene’s sneak peek of…
Find out more »October Book Group Discussion – The Promise by Damon Galgut
Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life’s unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over three decades, the dwindling family reflects the atmosphere of its country —…
Find out more »November 2021
Jewish Learning Institute: Outsmarting Antisemitism
WEDNESDAYS, NOVEMBER 3 – 24 • 9:30 – 11 AM (4x) We cannot let antisemitism define our Judaism, but we cannot ignore it either. As direct memory of the Holocaust fades, Jews around the world are wondering whether the patterns of past centuries are returning, in both the Old and New Worlds, where Jews experience more hate crimes than any other group. Are Jewish people doomed to be stuck in this cycle forever? Is there a way to escape this…
Find out more »Are You New To Medicare?
Join an Educational Seminar offered for those planning to go on Medicare in the next year. Sheri Salloway Yarosh, MBA, licensed Insurance Agent from Partners Senior Advantage, will discuss general options for obtaining Medicare. This seminar is for you if you are: Turning 65 or are over 65 and going off your company’s health insurance plan. Not sure if you should go on Medicare or stay on your company’s plan. We will review the ABCs of Medicare. Types of Medicare…
Find out more »TC Talks! Will Roe Survive New Supreme Court Case? Marshall Tanick, Attorney with Meyer Njus Tanick
This presentation will preview the upcoming Supreme Court case on December 1st seeking to overturn the abortion rights ruling of Roe v. Wade as well as other current controversies regarding women’s rights and reproductive issues, like the Texas 6-well abortion “vigilante” law and the status of these issues under Minnesota law. CLICK HERE for an outline of the speakers topics. Join Zoom Meeting HERE Meeting ID: 868 1344 6303 Passcode: 180447
Find out more »November Book Group Discussion – The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico’s funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left…
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