Beyond the Stage - Mikveh
Audience Enrichment Events
Theater J offers a variety of programs to engage our audience beyond the stage. Below is the current schedule of Artistic Director Roundtables, Peace Cafés and Cast Talk Backs.
These talks reflect a deep conversation going on in the community about the issues pertaining to the play’s portraiture of mikveh, religious life, domestic abuse, spirituality, and transformation of gender roles in religious society.
Contact Shirley Serotsky at (202) 777-3228 or email her with any further questions.
THESE ARE FREE DISCUSSIONS AND OPEN TO ALL
May 5 at 9:35 pm – Talk-back with Artistic Director, Ari Roth
May 6 at 9:35 pm – Talk-back with playwright, Hadar Galron
May 8 at 10:05 pm - Talk-back with set designer, Kinereth Kisch
May 9 at 5:05 pm – Talk-back with the creative team including playwright Hadar Galron and director Shirley Sertosky
May 12 at 9:50 pm - Discussion with Viva Hammer (Author of "Blood Rhythms: Sex in an Orthodox Jewish Marriage"
May 13 at 9:50 pm – Cast-Talk-Back in dialogue with Audience, and Sharon Freundel
May 16 at 5:20 pm – The New Mikveh Movement – Amy Chartock, National Programs Director of Mayyim Hayyiim, Gilah Langer (Washington Jewish Healing Network), Rabbi Ben and Sarah Shalshvas Boston; moderated by Naomi Malka (Coordinator of the Adas Israel Community Mikvah
May 16 at 9:50 pm - Alternative Mikveh Experiences, with Amy Chartock, National Programs Director of Mayyim Hayyiim, Boston, and Naomi Malka (Coordinator, Adas Israel Community Mikveh
May 22 at 10:20: Talk-Back with Guila Franklin Siegel (outgoing Director, Tikkun Olam Women’s Foundation); moderated by Elaine Reuben (Theater J Council Member and a founding trustee of the Tikkun Olam Jewish Women’s Foundation of Greater Washington)
May 23 at 5:20 pm – Israel and the Evolving Role of Women in Religious Practice (sponsored by the New Israel Fund) with Natasha Mozgovaya, (Israeli journalist, Chief US Correspondent Haaretz), Rabbi Batya Steinlauf, and Shira Frank (Deputy Director of Development and Leadership Outreach at J Street); moderated by Karen Paul-Stern (Washington Regional Director of the New Israel Fund and published poet)
May 23 at 9:50 pm – Responding to Domestic Abuse in the Jewish Community – (sponsored by Jewish Coalition Against Domestic Abuse) featuring Barbara Zackheim (Founding Director, JCADA) Rabbi David Rose (Family Justice Center, Montgomery County), Linda Siegel (Director of Clinical Services) and actress Carla Briscoe; moderated by Elissa Schwartz (executive director of JCADA)
May 26 at 9:50 pm – Interfaith Panel on Water and Ritual, Mary E. Hunt, Ph.D (feminist theologian and co-founder/co-director of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER) in Silver Spring, Maryland); Diann L. Neu (co-founder/co-director of WATER, the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual); Reverend Julia Jarvis (Spiritual Director for the Interfaith Families Project); moderated by Rabbi Tamara Miller (spiritual counselor at the Center for Integrative Medicine)
May 30 at 5:20 pm - Peace Cafe
June 2 at 9:50 pm: “What Mikveh Means to Me” Readings and Reflections about Ritual -Curated by Sarah Antine, poet-in-residence at the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington; Julie Rezmovic-Tonti (educator at the Gesher Jewish Day School in Fairfax, VA)
June 3 at 9:50 pm – Peace Café, with "A Slim Peace" film-maker, Yael Luttwak
In the Sundance Channel documentary film A SLIM PEACE , a group of Arab and Jewish women share intimate feelings and stories in a weight loss class together. Since the film's premiere at Tribeca Film Festival (2007) it has inspired numerous Slim Peace Groups in Israel and is looking to begin a similar gathering in the Metro DC area.