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For Art’s Sake: When Ambition and Life Collide 

ID:13694
Examine the artist’s struggle for success and the many challenges one must face in order to “make it” through the lens of three contemporary novels: B ...  View More

Schedule : Weekly - Mon 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM; 3 sessions; starting 1/26/2026, ending 3/23/2026 ; Class Skip Dates : (No class on 2/2/2026, 2/9/2026, 2/16/2026, 3/2/2026, 3/9/2026, 3/16/2026)

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Tuition: $105.00

Location: Zoom Location : 
  Zoom.

Instructor : Anna Katsavos 

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Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain (1924), a Young Man in the Snow 

ID:13847
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain (1924), often called the greatest German novel of the modern era, unfolds in a Swiss sanatorium just before World War ...  View More

Schedule : Weekly - Thu 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM; 5 sessions; starting 2/26/2026, ending 3/26/2026

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Tuition: $175.00

Location: Zoom Location : 
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Instructor : Nicholas Birns 

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Provocative Short Stories from the New Yorker 

ID:13956
Short stories that grab your attention and hold it. Characters that evolve or purposely do not. Story lines with unexpected tension, and complicated e ...  View More

Schedule : Weekly - Mon 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM; 6 sessions; starting 4/6/2026, ending 5/11/2026

Tuition: $180.00

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Instructor : Marilyn DeRight 

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Book Chat with Anna Katsavos: There are Rivers in the Sky (2024) by Elif Shafak 

ID:13998
Join fellow fiction enthusiasts to discuss critically acclaimed novels. This class focuses on There are Rivers in the Sky (2024) by Elif Shafak. ...  View More

Schedule : Weekly - Tue 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM; starting 4/7/2026, ending 4/7/2026

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Tuition: $35.00

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Instructor : Anna Katsavos 

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Book Discussion: Mona's Eyes (2025) by Thomas Schlesser 

ID:13935
Mona's Eyes, a novel by French art historian Thomas Schlesser, is about a young girl named Mona and her grandfather who spend a year visiting 52 maste ...  View More

Schedule : Weekly - Tue 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM; starting 4/7/2026, ending 4/7/2026

Tuition: $35.00

Location: Scarsdale Public Library Location : 
  Scarsdale Public Library.

Instructor : Page Knox 

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Film Discussion: Hamnet, Reimagining Our Most Famous Bard 

ID:13875
Discuss the Oscar-nominated film Hamnet (2025) by Chloe Zhao and starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. How does this visually imagined film, based ...  View More

Schedule : Weekly - Tue 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM; starting 4/7/2026, ending 4/7/2026

Tuition: $35.00

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Instructor : Kate Hearst 

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Walking Tour: And That's True Too: The Life and Work of Lore Segal at Leo Baeck Institute 

ID:13990
And That’s True Too: The Life and Work of Lore Segal, running January 22, 2026 through April 15, 2026, presents a richly documented exploration of the ...  View More

Schedule : Weekly - Mon 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM; starting 4/13/2026, ending 4/13/2026

Tuition: $50.00

Location: Leo Baeck Institute Location : 
  Leo Baeck Institute.

Instructor : Karin Hanta 

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BookTalk with Harriet Sobol: The Seascaper (2025) by Benjamin Wood 

ID:13936
BookTalk introduces readers to a carefully chosen, provocative selection of novels for reading and informal discussion, considering the author’s writi ...  View More

Schedule : Weekly - Wed 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM; starting 4/15/2026, ending 4/15/2026

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Tuition: $35.00

Location: Online

Instructor : Harriet Sobol 

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Hemingway's In Our Time (1925), Unpacking a Shattered Mosaic 

ID:13871
Dive into Ernest Hemingway’s revolutionary 1925 collection In Our Time, a modernist masterpiece blending spare short stories with stark vignettes in a ...  View More

Schedule : Weekly - Thu 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM; 4 sessions; starting 4/16/2026, ending 5/7/2026

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Tuition: $150.00

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Instructor : Nicholas Birns 

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Author Visit and Literary Lunch: Belle Burden, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage (2026) 

ID:13856
In conversation with Lori Rotskoff, meet debut author Belle Burden, whose acclaimed new book, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, is a New York Times bes ...  View More

Schedule : Weekly - Fri 11:15 AM - 1:00 PM; starting 4/17/2026, ending 4/17/2026

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Tuition: $80.00

Location: Beach Point Club Location : 
  Beach Point Club.

Instructor : Lori Rotskoff 

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Secrets Behind The Wizard of Oz 

ID:13852
Step behind the curtain of one of Hollywood's most beloved classics, The Wizard of Oz (1939). Discover the untold stories that shaped the magic: on-se ...  View More

Schedule : Weekly - Tue 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM; starting 4/21/2026, ending 4/21/2026

Tuition: $30.00

Location: Shaarei Tikvah Location : 
  Shaarei Tikvah.

Instructor : Andi Stix 

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Book Chat with Anna Katsavos: Atmosphere (2025) by Taylor Jenkins Reid 

ID:13999
Join fellow fiction enthusiasts to discuss critically acclaimed novels. This class focuses on Atmosphere (2025) by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Atmospher ...  View More

Schedule : Weekly - Tue 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM; starting 4/28/2026, ending 4/28/2026

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Tuition: $35.00

Location: Zoom Location : 
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Instructor : Anna Katsavos 

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