The Jewish Museum & Cultural Center Wonderful Wednesday Music Series present the champion fiddlers The Glencoe Lads, Sean Heely and Colin McGlynn! Tickets available for the Music Series or each concert: jewishmuseumportsmouth.org/music-series There is a keen magic when Glencoe Lads take to the stage in their kilts and fiddles. U.S National Champion Fiddlers Seán Heely […]

Klezmer is a mixture of wedding and party music of 19th century Eastern Europe with strains of Yiddish theater and American dance band music of the early 1900s. It borrows freely from a mixture of Romani style tunes, Middle Eastern music, and other sources as diverse as American folk music and rock 'n roll.  The […]

Saturdays at Seven film series Sir Walter Scott's 1819 historical romance Ivanhoe was one of the most popular novels of the 19th century and the centuries that followed. Robin Hood (mostly under the alias Locksley) is a supporting character in the novel.  Later writers took some of Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe's traits and shifted them to Robin […]

Saturdays at Seven Film Series presents the Film Noir "Crossfire" An anti-Semitic soldier who kills a Jewish war veteran, evades detection by his loyal friends' protection. However, a detective is determined that the crime will not go unsolved and sets about laying a trap for the murderer. Suggested donation: $5

Saturdays at Seven Film series presents Walk on Water from 2004. Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Hinmmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive.  Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his adult grandchildren.  Suggested donation: $5

Saturdays at Seven Film Series. Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth. Part memoir, part ode to the power of the movies, The […]

Arthur Z. Steinberg Lecture Series presents: Dr. Eric Mazur “Upon Your Heart and Upon Your Head...” The Material Jewish Presence in American Presidential Campaigning Eric Michael Mazur (Ph.D., is the Gloria & David Furman Professor of Judaic Studies, professor of religious studies, and the Religion, Law, & Politics Fellow of the Robert Nusbaum Center at […]

Arthur Z. Steinberg Lecture Series presents: Dr. Amy K. Milligan Abraham Mordecai: "The Dark-Eyed Jew" of Alabama Dr. Amy K. Milligan is the Batten Endowed AssociateProfessor of Jewish Studies and Women’s and Gender Studiesand the director of the Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding at Old Dominion University. She is an ethnographer and folklorist […]

Arthur Z. Steinberg Lecture Series presents: Rabbi Michael Panitz Moses and the Silver Screen Dr. Michael Panitz has been the Rabbi at Temple Israel in Norfolk since 1992. Trained at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was ordained as a rabbi in 1982 and received a Ph.D. in Jewish history in 1989. He has taught […]