Senior Connections

Senior Connections is normally held on the second and fourth Mondays of each month throughout the year. Currently we are bringing our programs by Zoom. Please check your Temple Weekly email or contact Melissa for the link. All programs are curated by seniors and are open to members as well as the wider Santa Cruz community. All programs are free

Please click to go to recordings of previous programs.

All ages are welcome to these informative and engaging presentations.

Programs begin at 2:00 PM, but you can join at 1:45 to schmooze and make sure you are comfortable with Zoom. The Zoom link is the same every week. It can be found in the Temple Weekly email, on the website home page for logged in members, or you can contact Melissa.

Senior Connections Programs: Dec 2020 – April 2021

Dec. 14 So What Does a Conductor Really Do? A discussion with Rebecca Miller

Dec. 28 Chanukah Late, 2021 None Too Soon: Music and Stories with Mark Levy

Jan. 11 Gilda Zelin: A Discussion of her new book, Still Going

Jan. 18 Maria Gitin: Stories from the Voting Rights Fight in Wilcox County, Alabama, with a video of historic photographs

Jan. 25 Carolyn Cocciardi: Leonardo da Vinci's Hidden Message: Leonardo's Knot

Feb. 8 Martha Mendoza: America’s Medical Supply Crisis

Feb. 22 Irene Reti: Voice of Witness: Writing Oral Histories

Mar. 8 Sherry Halperin: Lights, Camera - a discussion with director, producer and best-selling author Sherry Halperin

Mar. 15 Stan Rushworth: Returning to the Sacred: Indigenous responses to the changing earth

Mar. 22 Dale Atkins: Tikkun Olam and The Advantages of Aging with Kindness

April 12 KAVOD Ensuring Dignity for Holocaust Survivors with Amy and John Israel Pregulman

Previous Programs: Click to watch

Bruce Thompson Jews and the Wizard of Oz

Ed Weingold A Map of the World Book Talk

Bob Kibrick Challenges to Democracy

Ronnie Gruhn The World in Crisis

Claudia Bloom An Afternoon of Soulful Jewish Music

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett on the creation of the Polin Museum in Warsaw

Rachel Kippen, Executive Director of O'Neill Sea Odyssey Ocean Conservation in Monterey Bay: Engaging the Next Generation

K. Meira Goldberg speaks about the influence of her Jewish roots on her life in Flamenco

Tracing Your Jewish Roots at Home with Genealogists from the Center for Jewish History, NYC

Sarah Rabkin: Quiet Activist

Carie Thompson speaks about the Land Trust of Santa Cruz

Our Soul's Journey with Shulamit Elson

Silvia Vasquez-Lavado discusses her memoir, In The Shadow of the Mountain

Lara Love-Hardin Sharing Our Stories

Deborah Tannen on her new book Finding My Father

Rebecca Miller on Conducting

Mark Levy: Chanukah Late; 2021 None Too Soon

Gilda Zelin: Still Going

Maria Gitin; Stories From the Voting Rights Fight

Free and Open to the General Public!
Programs every Monday

1:30 - 2:00 PM Nosh and Schmooze
2:00 - 3:30 PM Featured Presentation

For transportation needs, further information, and/or suggestions for future programming, please email Marlene Pitkow or call her at (831) 818-4809.

Why not honor your loved ones with a donation to the Senior Connections fund and help us to continue these great programs twice a month? Senior Connections is a self-sustaining group within the Temple family. Our success is due to the support of people like you. Contributions of any amount to Senior Connections are greatly appreciated and will go toward honorariums for our speakers, film licensing dues, luncheon expenses and assistance to seniors in our Temple and in the larger community.