• Film Screening and Talk Back with Eddie Rubin, Executive Producer of “OUT OF MY MIND”

    The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd, West Bloomfield

    Celebrating Jewish Disability Awareness Acceptance and Inclusion Month (JDAIM) with Opening the Doors and JKids and Families departments. Film screening and talk back with Eddie Rubin, Executive Producer of Out of My Mind Sunday, March 9 at 3:30 PM Registration & Resource Fair at 3:00 PM FREE event for adults and children 10 and up ...

  • Winter Community Blood Drive

    The J - Detroit 6600 W Maple Rd, West Bloomfield

    Give the greatest gift of all - the gift of life. The J Detroit Community Blood Drive Tuesday, March 11 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. After our last blood drive, we were blown away by the support of our caring community. Let's keep the giving going! Sign up today to give the lifesaving gift of ...

  • Scholars in Session: Jews and Drag-An American Cultural History 1900-2020

    The J - Detroit 6600 W Maple Rd, West Bloomfield

    Golan Moskowitz, 2024-2025 University of Michigan Frankel Institute Fellow, explores the Jewish American cultural history of the gender-transcendent performance art of drag, from early twentieth-century Yiddish vaudeville through contemporary Emmy-winning reality television. Professor Moskowitz will discuss how marginalized Jewish artists, writers, and performers creatively process legacies of embodied otherness, focusing especially on Jewish American descendants ...

  • Infant and Child CPR Training

    The J - Detroit 6600 W Maple Rd, West Bloomfield

    Join The J Kids & Families departments for an Infant and Child CPR Training session. This training will cover the essential skills needed for pediatric and infant CPR. Upon completion, attendees will receive a certification provided by the instructor, Randi Krause, a nurse practitioner. Mannequins and necessary supplies will be provided for hands-on practice. The ...

  • Detroit Jewish Film Festival: Torn

    The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd,

    Documentary / USA / English / 75 minutes After the October 7 attacks, artists Nitzan Mintz and Dede Bandaid launched the “Kidnapped from Israel” grassroots poster campaign in NY to raise awareness about the hostages taken by Hamas. Torn explores the motivations of activists putting up and tearing down the posters, revealing the complexities of ...

  • Detroit Jewish Film Festival: Colleyville

    The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd,

    Documentary / USA / English / 80 minutes On January 15, 2022, an ordinary Shabbat morning at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, turned into a harrowing hostage crisis involving Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and three others. Colleyville is a gripping real-life drama showcasing the resilience of the hostages and community while highlighting the complexities of ...

  • Detroit Jewish Film Festival: Matchmaking 2

    The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd,

    Romantic Comedy / Israel / Hebrew with English Subtitles / 110 minutes Israel’s biggest box office hit of the year, Matchmaking 2 , is the feel- good, long-awaited sequel to the beloved 2022 rom-com starring some of Israel’s brightest young talents. This tender, side-splitting celebration of clashing traditions and big-hearted characters follows a love-struck bachelor ...

  • Detroit Jewish Film Festival: For the Living

    The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd,

    Documentary / USA /English / 117 minutes In 1945, 10-year-old Holocaust survivor Marcel Zielinski made a 60-mile journey by foot from Auschwitz-Birkenau to Krakow in search of his family. Decades later, 250 cyclists retrace his path in a mission called Ride for the Living. This powerful documentary draws parallels between his experience and the cyclists’ ...

  • Theater Kid featuring Tony Award-winner Jeffrey Seller in conversation with Douglas Sills

    The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd,

    Tony Award-winner Jeffrey Seller in conversation with Tony Award-nominee Douglas Sills (Broadway's The Scarlet Pimpernel and HBO's The Gilded Age) A coming-of-age tale from one of the most successful American producers of our time, Jeffrey Seller, one of the masterminds behind the Tony Award-winning musicals Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights , and Hamilton. _Theater ...

  • Detroit Jewish Film Festival: The Ring

    The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd,

    Drama / Israel, Hungary / Hebrew and Hungarian with English subtitles / 120 minutes Arnon Noble, a devout man with a strong bond to his mother, a Holocaust survivor, embarks on a journey to Hungary with his estranged daughter to seek a legendary ring that once saved her life. Written by and starring Ophir Award-winning ...

  • Women of The J : Bad Shabbos

    The J - Detroit 6600 West Maple Road, West Bloomfield Township

    A Shabbat so good, we're doing it Thursday! Come for the wine, stay for the whodunit at 'Bad Shabbos' and bring an alibi. Begin your night with a strolling Shabbat-themed dinner in the Janice Charach Gallery, then make your way to the Berman Theater where the Jewish Film Festival will show Bad Shabbos , a ...

  • Detroit Jewish Film Festival: Bad Shabbos with Comedy Short Sauna Dreams

    The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd,

    Comedy / USA / English / 84 minutes David and his fiancée Meg attend a Shabbat dinner at his mother’s house to introduce her Catholic parents to his Jewish family. When a turn of events leads to a frantic cover-up, the evening spirals into darkly comedic chaos. Uproariously funny with a cast featuring Emmy-winner Kyra ...