92nd Street Y Lecture Series

Live broadcasts of lectures held at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y are available to residents, families, friends, and members of the community thanks to the generous support of Joan Jacobson of New York, a long-time supporter of the Jewish Home Lifecare. 

Now in the third season of broadcasts made possible by The Joan Jacobson 92nd Street Y Satellite Program Fund, elders in Manhattan and the Bronx can experience intellectually and culturally stimulating programs without having to leave the campuses. 

The exciting spring line-up of speakers includes Richard Sonnenfeldt, Eric Kandel, A.J. Jacobs, Cokie Roberts, Garrison Keillor, and Norman Lear (pictured at left). 

The interactive lecture series is broadcast live via satellite. Audience members can have their questions personally answered by the speakers.  At the Bronx Division and Kittay House, lectures are also broadcast on Jewish Home’s closed-circuit television station, Channel 40.  Residents and visitors can enjoy the programs on in-room televisions and in common areas. 

The following programs are free and open to family, friends, and the community: 

Witness To Nuremberg: Richard Sonnenfeldt
Eric Kandel: In Search of Memory
A.J. Jacobs: The Year of Living Biblically
Cokie Roberts: Ladies of Liberty
Garrison Keillor
Norman Lear

Kittay House is located at 2550 Webb Avenue in the Bronx; broadcasts are held in the Fox Auditorium.

The Manhattan Division is located at 120 West 106th Street (between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues); broadcasts are held in the Ben Barrack Auditorium.   

Refreshments will be served.  Please let us know if you will attend by responding to Ellen Goldstein-Hicklen, Senior Project Manager and Board Liaison, via e-mail at egoldstein@jhha.org or by phone at (212) 870-5037.

Witness To Nuremberg: Richard Sonnenfeldt

Thu, Feb 28, 8:15pm
Kittay House and Manhattan Division
The chief interpreter for the American prosecution at the Nuremberg trials discusses startling new information about the Nazi war criminals and the origins and development of the Holocaust. He was later a principal developer of color television, computers and the technology for the first moon landing.

Eric Kandel: In Search of Memory

Tue, Mar 4, 8pm
Kittay House
Columbia University professor Eric Kandel won a Nobel Prize in 2000 for figuring out the basic chemistry of memory. His book In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, chronicles his life and research. 

A.J. Jacobs: The Year of Living Biblically

Tue, Apr 1, 8:15pm
Kittay House
Join bestselling author A.J. Jacobs as he discusses his most recent book, The Year of Living Biblically, in which he recounts his fascinating, enlightening and delightfully strange year trying to follow all 613 commandments in the Bible. This lecture is an eye-opening lesson in the wisdom of rabbis, religion in America today, Bible history and the dangers of literal interpretation.

Cokie Roberts: Ladies of Liberty

Tue, Apr 8, 8:15pm
Kittay House
ABC News political commentator Cokie Roberts describes remarkable women who helped build our nation by facing the challenges and becoming reformers and advocates for education, orphans and abolition.

Garrison Keillor

Wed, Apr 9, 1pm
Kittay House and Manhattan Division
A Grammy and Peabody winner, Garrison Keillor is the author of more than 15 books and is the creator, host and writer of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer’s Almanac, heard on public radio stations across the country. Keillor’s new novel is Pontoon.

Norman Lear

Mon, Apr 28, 8:15pm
Kittay House and Manhattan Division
The creator and producer of Emmy Award-winning television series All In the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son and The Jeffersons, Norman Lear is a pioneer of a genre of programming that addresses pressing social issues with unusual candor. He is the founder and chairman of Act III Communications and in 1980, Lear formed People For the American Way, which defends constitutional freedoms.

This program is made possible by the generous support of The Joan Jacobson 92nd Street Y Satellite Program Fund of the Jewish Home & Hospital Foundation.