Camp Klurman
2022-06-13 - 2022-08-19 | FL, United States
Camp Klurman is the best camping experience on the beach. It is powered by a dynamic staff and engaging programming for all ages. Give your child a summer to remember, filled with fun activities and friendships that last a lifetime.

Member Priority Youth Program Registration Begins
2022-08-04 - 2022-08-10 | Miami Beach JCC, 4221 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33140, United States

2022-2023 ASP Program Begins
2022-08-22 | FL, United States

Camp Lock in Rates
2022-08-24 - 2022-09-19 | FL, United States
Lock in 2022 rates for Summer 2023!
Register for camp by September 19 to lock in Summer 2022 rates.
To join the summer of fun, fill out a registration form and email it to camp@mbjcc.org.
Download Registration Form

Fall Youth Programs Begin
2022-08-29 | FL, United States

YI Love Lectures "Celebrating Yinglish" YiddishFest '22
2022-08-30 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | FL, United States
Renowned entertainer and Jewish cultural activist Avi Hoffman presents a multi-media celebration of ‘Yinglish’ – the unique American linguistic combination of Yiddish and English. From the over 5000 Yiddish words that have officially become a part of the English language, Avi has fun with the stories and words that celebrate the idiomatic phenomenon that laid the foundation for modern mainstream culture. This lecture incorporates the writings of Avi’s mother, retired Columbia University professor, author, journalist and playwright, Miriam Hoffman.
YI Love YiddishFest ‘22 is sponsored by Dr. Bruce and Lesley Zafran of Parkland and GFour Productions, and is cosponsored by the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies/George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Miami, The Betsy South Beach, Miami Beach JCC and the Adolph, Rose Levis JCC, MNM Theatre Company, Mo’s Deli, Miami New Times and the Yiddish Theatre Alliance with the support of Broward County Cultural Council, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners and is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.

"Stars of David: Story to Song" YI Love YiddishFest '22
2022-09-01 19:30 - 21:00 | FL, United States
About this event
CONCERT: A MUSICAL REVUE BASED ON THE BEST SELLING BOOK BY ABIGAIL POGREBIN
Miami Beach JCC
This funny and captivating musical revue features original songs by the finest composers and lyricists of the theatre and celebrates the identity of some of the most well known Jewish personalities including Marilyn & Alan Bergman (Award-winning lyricists of “The Windmills of your Mind,” “The Way We Were” and others), Andy Cohen (Bravo Executive and Host of “Watch What Happens Live”), Gloria Steinem (Author, Feminist and Activist), Kenneth Cole (Fashion Designer, Activist), Fran Drescher (Actress/Comedian, TV’s “The Nanny”), Edgar Bronfman Sr. (Former CEO of Warner Music Group), Aaron Sorkin (TV/Film Writer, “The West Wing,” The Social Network), Leonard Nimoy (Actor, “Star Trek”), Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg (Supreme Court Justice), Joan Rivers (Actress, Comedian, Host of “Fashion Police”), Tony Kushner (Playwright, “Angels in America”) and Norman Lear (TV Writer/Producer, Creator of “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons”), among others.

Their stories have been adapted into touching, humorous and often moving songs by such celebrated, award-winning writers as Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line), Marilyn & Alan Bergman (Yentl), Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof), Duncan Sheik & Steven Sater (Spring Awakening), Jeanine Tesori (Caroline, Or Change), Richard Maltby & David Shire (Closer Than Ever), Tom Kitt (Next to Normal), Michael Friedman (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Amanda Green (High Fidelity), Nathan Tysen & Chris Miller (The Burnt Part Boys), Susan Birkenhead (Jelly’s Last Jam), Gaby Alter & Itamar Moses (Nobody Loves You), Daniel Messé and others.

ABIGAIL POGREBIN, a former 60 Minutes producer for Mike Wallace, is the author of “Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish” and “One and the Same” about her life as a twin. Her bestselling Amazon Kindle Single, “Showstopper,” chronicled her teenage adventures in the original Broadway cast of Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along.” She writes for numerous publications including Newsweek, New York Magazine and the Daily Beast, and is writing a column for The Forward about immersing herself in the Jewish calendar for the first time: “18 Holidays: One Wondering Jew.”

YI Love Lectures "Celebrating Yinglish" YI Love YiddishFest '22
2022-09-02 19:30 - 21:00 | FL, United States

Labor Day Weekend - No Aquatics
2022-09-04 | FL, United States

Labor Day: Open 8 am - 5pm
2022-09-05 08:00 - 17:00 | FL, United States
Pool & Fitness Only

Watch Party: Michael W. Twitty in Conversation with Adeena Sussman
2022-09-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Miami Beach JCC, 4221 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33140, United States
You are invited to a Zoom Watch Party: Michael W. Twitty in Conversation with Adeena Sussman
Sample creations from his new cookbook Kosher Soul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew
The James Beard Award-winning Chef’s fusion of two distinctive culinary cultures – the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora.
Prepared by Executive Chef Michelle Soussan, of Kitchen to Table.
Adeena Sussman is the co-author of eleven cookbooks, including the New York Times #1 bestseller Cravings—and its bestselling follow-up Hungry for More—with Chrissy Teigen. She is also the author of Tahini.

Camp Lock In Rates
2022-09-21 - 2022-10-26 | FL, United States
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Special Speaker Series: Rabbi Marc Phillipe: The Joy of Jewish Ritual
2022-09-21 12:30 - 14:00 | FL, United States
Join us for a Rosh Hashanah L’Chaim and a powerful talk with Rabbi Marc Philippe of Kodesh House on the importance of the Jewish holiday cycle, how it connects us to our faith and people while strengthening our well-being and personal growth.
Rabbi Marc Philippe is delighted to serve the Jewish community of Miami Beach as the Rabbi and founder of Kodesh House. He teaches and offers pastoral counseling in offices or people’s homes and organizes programs in a variety of venues. Beyond his role as a spiritual leader, Rabbi Philippe is a public speaker, chaplain, cantor, musician, composer and conductor. He is also a practitioner of Jewish meditation.

Noche Flamenca: A Night of Flamenco!
2022-09-22 19:30 - 21:00 | FL, United States
The evening includes light refreshments, Wine and Sangria.
Join us for an amazing performance of Flamenco with performers from Ballet Flamenco La Rosa and award-winnig guitarist Jose Luis de La Paz, direct from Spain.
Ballet Flamenco La Rosa is an international company dedicated to Flamenco as an art form in constant evolution. Based in Miami and made up of dancers and musicians from Spain, Latin America, and the U.S., the company presents flamenco dance at its best, beyond traditional boundaries, surprising and enlightening students and the public with the beauty and magic of this theatrical dance form.
Jose Luis de la Paz (1967) is an award-winning guitarist, recognized in all three disciplines of the Flamenco Art. He is a composer, virtuoso and performer whose original compositions range from the most traditional to the most experimental forms in flamenco music.

Erev Rosh Hashannah
2022-09-25 05:30 - 16:00 | FL, United States

Rosh Hashannah - CLOSED
2022-09-26 - 2022-09-27, 2022-09-27 | FL, United States
No After-school or Youth Programs

Latin America and the Holocaust: The Quest to Preserve Family Histories
2022-10-09 13:00 - 15:30 | Miami Beach JCC, 4221 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33140, United States
Join us to hear from Museum experts on how the Holocaust affected Latin America and our efforts to locate and preserve original artifacts – including amateur films and home movies from 1928 to 1948 – that show the unique circumstances of individuals who immigrated to Latin America to escape persecution in Europe, or who settled there after the war.
Panelists:
Leslie Swift, Special Advisor, Time-Based Media
The David M. Rubenstein National Institute For Holocaust Documentation
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Dr. Krista Hegburg, Senior Program Officer
International Academic Programs
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum
Moderator:
Robert Tanen, Southeast Regional Director
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Special Remarks:
Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff, Director
University of Miami Holocaust Teacher Institute

For security purposes, RSVP’s are mandatory.
Valet Parking included. Please arrive early. No walk-ins will be admitted.
For more information, please contact Robert Tanen (rtanen@ushmm.org).

Wine Tasting in the Sukkah
2022-10-13 19:00 - 20:30 | FL
Please join us for a Sukkot Celebration at the Miami Beach JCC – Wine Tasting and Food Pairing in the Sukkah!

Seventh Annual Screening of the Holocaust Film Series: Three Minutes: A Lengthening
2022-10-20 19:30 - 21:30 | FL, United States
Internationally acclaimed film Three Minutes – A Lengthening, which premiered at the 2022 Miami Jewish Film Festival. Produced by Steve McQueen and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, this one-of-a-kind documentary transforms rare color home-movie footage shot in 1938 Poland into a testament to victims of the Holocaust.
Following the film presentation, there will be an expanded discussion with Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff, Education Director of the Holocaust Institute at the University of Miami. Dr. Nikki Freeman, the new Education Director at the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month Special Book Event Seven Days of Shiva: Forty Six Years of Puppy Love Marc Gellman
2022-10-24 12:30 - 14:30 | FL, United States
Join us for a very special conversation with Marc Gellman, who, seized with grief at the loss of his beloved wife Barbara after a thirty-year battle with breast cancer, turns to telling stories.
This unique memoir is much more than a tribute to a departed love. Their story shows how a cancer journey seamlessly entwines through a four decades-long love story.

H3 Breast Cancer Month Medical Panel
2022-10-24 19:30 - 21:00 | FL, United States
Please join us for a very informative medical panel organized by H3: Help. Hope. Healing regarding genetic testing and pre-screening and Breast Cancer Awareness.

MBJCC Book Club: Debra Green - The Convention of Wives
2022-10-25 12:30 - 14:00 | FL, United States
Dina and Julia first meet at a surgical convention and bond over frustrations with their husbands’ demanding schedules. But geography, time, and growing families make maintaining their friendship difficult and their relationship eventually falls apart.
A sweeping saga that follows generations from a shtetl in Odessa to the comforts of Scarsdale, an uprising in Glasgow to servitude in the Caribbean, and a trek through the Alps to a displaced persons camp in Italy, The Convention of Wives is a story about the ever-evolving messiness of friendship and marriage, and the wonder of survival.
The Convention of Wives is Debra Green’s first novel.

Miami Jewish Film Festival Inaugural Marquee Film Series at the MBJCC Greener Pastures
2022-10-27 19:30 - 21:30 | FL, United States
Join us for a “cinema under the stars” event with Greener Pastures, an award-winning Israeli film nominated for 12 Israeli Academy Awards, including Best Film. A cranky Israeli retiree gets a new lease on life as a cannabis dealer, in this sparkly comedy caper. Newly retired and recently widowed, Dov (Shlomo Bar Aba) feels imprisoned in his luxurious gated community. Low on money and friends, he hatches a plot to buy back his old rustic cottage by selling marijuana to fellow seniors. As his business takes off, along with romance, it’s not long before his distribution ring runs hilariously afoul of the police and local mafia.
Feel free to bring a lawn chair and snacks.

Opening Exhibition Reception: The Schwartz-Jacobs Family Gallery Presents Memory Lane, a Photographic Retrospective by Larry Shane
2022-10-30 14:00 - 15:30 | FL, United States
This exhibition of photographic images showcases historic, iconic, endangered, or vanishing places in Miami Beach and South Florida to provide pleasant memories and a nostalgic look at times past. They ask us to reflect on what was and to think about how we shape our future.
Larry Shane, a lifelong resident of Miami, is a Miami-Dade-based, award-winning photographer, whose artistic style began with the documentation of the closure of the Miami Orange Bowl in 2008. While his passion is to photograph almost everything, he began to concentrate his eye on places that held fond memories for South Floridians like himself. Larry has been exhibiting his work in local street art fairs in Miami since 2015.

JCC-U Open House
2022-11-02 11:00 - 14:00 | FL, United States
A first look at our exciting line-up of adult classes being offered this year! Meet the instructors, register for classes, and make new friends. Free refreshments!
Our new line-up will include Bridge, Hebrew, Spanish, Photography, and Art classes in Mixed Media Printing and drawing. Not to mention our Wednesdays at the JCC!
With Special Guest Speaker:
Dr. Robert Watson
President Truman and the Birth of the State of Israel”
JCC-U is sponsored by Baptist Health.

Rockin' the TENt
2022-11-03 19:00 - 23:00 | FL, United States
Event Chairs:
Moj Danial • Robin Jacobs • Marisa Galbut • Stacey Galbut • Karine Nissim Hirschhorn • Lindsay Schottenstein • Nikki Simkins • Jason Wiesenfeld
Honoring the Leaders from Past to Present:
Gerald K. Schwartz • Dr. Ronald Shane • Dr. Doug Miller • Peter Perkel (z”l) • Robert Goldsten • Joy Spill • David Smith • Gary Epstein • Robin Jacobs • Allison Sokol • Elise Lipoff Mayer • Stacey Gumenick • Claudia Brod • Jerry Sokol • Jay Abramowitz • Michael Simkins • Michael Tobin
And The Greater Miami Jewish Federation
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Give Miami Day Pledging
2022-11-07 - 2022-11-17 | FL
We have so much to celebrate as we reach ten years as a community in our beautiful Galbut Family Miami Beach JCC on the Simkins Family Campus! Yet, we have so much more to do.
It’s all about our…..
· 5,700 Members (and growing)
· 600 Camp Klurman Campers
· 1,200 Participants in Sports and Youth Programs
· 500 Group Fitness Fans
· 1,800 Arts and Culture Audience Members
The only way we can continue to thrive and grow to meet the ever-changing needs of the community is through fundraising– above and beyond the membership and program fees that merely keep the doors open.
Did you know that we provide over $250,000 in Scholarships each year so that no child, family, or community member is ever turned away?
Help Us Celebrate Ten and Build for Our Future by Donating to the MBJCC on Give Miami Day.
We are Powered by Community!
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School Day Out
2022-11-08 08:30 - 16:00 | Miami Beach JCC, 4221 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33140, United States

Alyson Richman & Shaunna J. Edwards: The Thread Collectors
2022-11-09 12:30 - 14:00 | Miami Beach JCC, 4221 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, FL, 33140, United States
This is a part of our JCC Special Speaker Series event with Alyson Richman and Shaunna J. Edwards, authors of The Thread Collectors. Inspired by the author’s own histories, The Thread Collectors is a rich historical novel set during the Civil War about two women-one black and yearning for freedom in New Orleans, the other a Jewish abolitionist in New York- whose resourceful sewing to support their communities leads them on unexpected, dangerous journeys as they fight to bring their loved ones home from the front. The two main characters are based on the real ancestors of the authors.
