Dr. Leo Horvitz’s commitment to the Jewish community is legendary. The Scholar-in-Residence Program was originally established in 1989 by his wife, Bunny, to honor the memory of Dr. Horvitz who served the Jewish community of Houston in many capacities. In 1995, to honor the blessed memory of Bunny Horvitz, the program was renamed the Bunny […]
Join us for an official ribbon cutting ceremony of the brand-new Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Center of Houston campus. Our partners, donors, dignitaries, staff and building design team will pay tribute to the success of the $50M renovation. An open house event will take place immediately following the dedication ceremony with special activities for the whole […]
Join us for the opening reception and artist talk. Though its origin as a Jewish folk craft is unknown, paper-cutting became widely popular among Jewish communities in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Traditionally paper-cuts have been made into mizrach signs, ketubot, and ephermeral décor for Purim. Contemporary artist Anna Kronick’s fresh […]
Join your friends for Toddler Tales: Story & Play Time in the J’s indoor play space! Hear a children’s story and stay and play in the J’s indoor play space. These fun weekly story times will feature guest readers from the Houston Jewish Community and crafts that relate to the book of the week. Toddler […]
Celebrate Shabbat with your friends and family with open gym in the gymnastics center followed by musical services. Open gym will begin at 10:30 AM in the gymnastics center, followed by music and services at 11:30 AM. RSVPs are required and spaces are limited.
There’s a problem with Purim! The Purim play is about to start, but the megillah is missing! Without the scroll that recounts the Purim story, how can the show go on? Never fear: three determined hamantaschen—DETECTIVES! Right. Three determined DETECTIVES are on the case. With the help of a mysterious stranger and a few disguises, […]
Proceeds from the Ball benefit the Irvin Kaplan Children's Scholarship Fund, which provides financial assistance to children of all religious and ethnic backgrounds in need of financial assistance for infant care, preschool, summer camp and special needs programs. Each year more than 300 children are the recipients of the proceeds of this event. Learn more here!
Join us for an author talk with Susan Weidman Schneider, author of Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine. Dinner: 6:30 PM | Author Event: 7:30 PM These short stories represent the widest range of Jewish feminist fiction. Sharing numerous points of view, these stories will resonate with your own experience or share a […]
Join your friends for Toddler Tales: Story & Play Time in the J’s indoor play space! Hear a children’s story and stay and play in the J’s indoor play space. These fun weekly story times will feature guest readers from the Houston Jewish Community and crafts that relate to the book of the week. Toddler […]
Join us for a pre-film event celebrating Citrons. This three course interactive class will excite the senses and prepare you for life on a Calabrian farm! Instructor: Chef Ellen The Cramer-Jacobs Family Culinary Studio is our NEW hands-on culinary kitchen created to be a destination for culinary classes and events for the Jewish Community and […]
Directed by Stéphane Freiss Italy, 2022, 100 minutes Genre Drama Language Italian, French with English Subtitles Foreign Language Title Alla Vita Southern Italy is the setting for this beautiful film, where an Orthodox Rabbi brings his family to harvest etrogim (citrons) for Sukkot. Two worlds collide as the Rabbi’s daughter, Esther, looks for a way […]
Celebrate Shabbat with your friends and family with open gym in the gymnastics center followed by musical services. Open gym will begin at 10:30 AM in the gymnastics center, followed by music and services at 11:30 AM. RSVPs are required and spaces are limited.
J Camps Spring Break will keep your kids busy while school is out! With a variety of fun-filled activities for kindergarten through fifth grade, campers will experience our beloved J Camp rooms with counselor-led activities, camp crafts and board games plus tons of fun in the art studio, gymnastics center, sports gym and aquatics complex. We will […]
Be one of the first to enjoy a culinary experience in the Cramer-Jacobs Family Culinary Studio, the NEW hands-on culinary kitchen at the J! There are many opportunities to continue your Jewish learning journey through food. Morgan Jankovic, The Foodie Chef, will lead you in the preparation of recipes from the featured Jewish cookbook. In […]
Celebrate Shabbat with your friends and family with open gym in the gymnastics center followed by musical services. Open gym will begin at 10:30 AM in the gymnastics center, followed by music and services at 11:30 AM. RSVPs are required and spaces are limited.
Directed by Krzysztof Lang Poland, 2022, 118 minutes Language Polish with English Subtitles Foreign Language Title Marzec ’68 Genre Drama Warsaw, 1968. Hania and Janek, two students uninterested in politics, fall madly in love as the city is engulfed in protests against the authoritarian regime’s antisemitic policies and crackdown on civil liberties. But they are […]
Directed by Bernadette Wegenstein USA, 2021, 90 minutes Language English Genre Documentary Step into the heart of classical music, and the soul of one of its top artists, internationally renowned Marin Alsop — the world’s first female conductor. Born into a musical Jewish family, Alsop never relinquished her childhood dream of becoming a conductor inspired […]
Teen chefs will get a glimpse of the world through food and learn how to make dishes from across the globe. Explore spices and ingredients from different countries, and travel the world through your senses! Instructor: Hannah Abney The Cramer-Jacobs Family Culinary Studio is our NEW hands-on culinary kitchen created to be a destination for […]
Featuring film historian, Eric Goldman, providing introductions and context to each short, along with a performance on piano. Anne Directed by Desirée Abeyta USA, 2021, 10 minutes Language English Genre Drama Two actresses, one Black and one white, audition to play Anne Frank, prompting the question: Who is best suited for the role? Ibach Directed […]
Are you ready to master the kitchen with Houston’s very own Top Chef contestant Sasha Grunman?! This class will pack no shortage of excitement, led by this world-class trained chef. Instructor: Sasha Grunman The Cramer-Jacobs Family Culinary Studio is our NEW hands-on culinary kitchen created to be a destination for culinary classes and events for […]
Featuring film historian, Eric Goldman, providing introductions and context to each short, along with a stand-up comedian.YidLife Crisis: Anticementish Directed by Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman Canada, 2019, 7 minutes Language Yiddish with English subtitles Genre Comedy While revisiting their childhood suburban landscape, Chaimie & Leizer are thrust into lively debate coming from both left […]
Come ready to sweat and work to a kid-friendly playlist. All levels welcome in this 45-minute low impact class! No equipment necessary. Workout will incorporate your baby if they are not mobile allowing some special bonding time while you work! Mix of yoga, pilates, cardio + strength. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to wear their […]
Film Director and Not in Our Town co-founder, Patrice O’Neill in attendance for Post Film Q&A Wednesday, March 22 | 7:30 PM | Teen Night at the Houston Jewish Film Festival Directed by Patrice O’Neill USA, 2022, 90 minutes Language English Genre Documentary Pittsburghers experienced tremendous grief following the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting that took […]
Albert and Ethel Herztein Theater Holocaust Museum Houston Directed by Fred Cavayé France, 2021, 115 minutes Language French with English Subtitles Foreign Language Title Adieu, Monsieur Haffmann Genre Drama French acting legend Daniel Auteuil plays Joseph Haffmann, a Jewish jeweler whose family has fled German-occupied Paris in this gripping historical drama. Having entrusted his store […]
Teen Night at the Houston Jewish Film Festival Presented with Kehillah High, J Teens, BBYO and Helfman Religious School at Congregation Emanu El Directed by Patrice O’Neill USA, 2022, 90 minutes Language English Genre Documentary Pittsburghers experienced tremendous grief following the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting that took 11 lives in the close-knit Squirrel […]
Be one of the first to enjoy a culinary experience in the Cramer-Jacobs Family Culinary Studio, the NEW hands-on culinary kitchen at the J! There are many opportunities to continue your Jewish learning journey through food. Morgan Jankovic, The Foodie Chef, will lead you in the preparation of recipes from the featured Jewish cookbook. In […]
Join your friends for Toddler Tales: Story & Play Time in the J’s indoor play space! Hear a children’s story and stay and play in the J’s indoor play space. These fun weekly story times will feature guest readers from the Houston Jewish Community and crafts that relate to the book of the week. Toddler […]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium Theater Directed by Krzysztof Lang Poland, 2022, 118 minutes Language Polish with English Subtitles Foreign Language Title Marzec ’68 Genre Drama Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Warsaw, 1968. Hania and Janek, two students uninterested in politics, fall madly in love as the city is engulfed in protests against the […]
Directed by Ofir Raul Graizer Israel, 2022, 127 minutes Language Hebrew, with English Subtitles Genre Drama Eli, an Israeli swimming instructor returns to Tel Aviv from Chicago after his estranged father dies. A series of events involving an old friend, who has a hiking accident, and his Ethiopian immigrant florist fiancée leads to a psychologically […]
Celebrate Shabbat with your friends and family with open gym in the gymnastics center followed by musical services. Open gym will begin at 10:30 AM in the gymnastics center, followed by music and services at 11:30 AM. RSVPs are required and spaces are limited.
Children in first through fifth grade will experience our newly resurfaced basketball courts and enjoy March Madness fun at the J while parents have a night out! Directors of All American Basketball Camp will facilitate basketball games and the ultimate J March Madness tournament, plus kids will have a chance to play famous Minute to […]
It’s time to LOL with the JCC. HC68 is going to Comedy Sportz, an interactive and improvised comedy show. Enjoy an evening of laughs and entertainment with friends.
Directed by Moshe Rosenthal Israel, 2022, 100 minutes Language Hebrew with English Subtitles Genre Drama, Comedy Everything goes off-key when a charismatic bachelor moves into a suburban Tel Aviv apartment and begins to host karaoke parties in his penthouse. An older couple’s slow, safe routine is shaken after being drawn in by their new neighbor. […]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium Theater Directed by Maurizius Staerkle Drux Switzerland, Germany, 2022, 81 minutes Language German, English, French with English Subtitles Foreign Language Title L’Art du Silence Genre Documentary Staerkle Drux’s uplifting and resonant documentary about legendary mime Marcel Marceau intertwines World War II footage, insight into Marceau’s Jewish background […]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Brown Auditorium Theater Directed by Orit Fouks Rotem Israel, 2021, 91 minutes Language English, Hebrew, Arabic with English Subtitles Genre Drama Israel’s entry for Best Foreign Film at the 2023 Academy Awards portrays a fictional group of Arab and Jewish women, municipal workers in Hadera, taking part in a […]
Directed by Chanoch Ze’evi Israel, 2021, 52 minutes Language Hebrew, German with English Subtitles Foreign Language Title Yomano Shel Nazi Genre Documentary This documentary explores the complicated story of Nazi-turned-rescuer Wilm Hosenfeld, known as the person who saved “The Pianist” (portrayed by Adrien Brody in Roman Polanski’s 2002 Award-winning film). As Hosenfeld rises in the […]
Directed by Pini Tavger Israel, Germany, 2021, 82 minutes Language English and Russian with English Subtitles Foreign Language Title Yoter Mema Shemagia Li Genre Drama This sweet coming-of-age drama portrays a single mother and her 12-year-old son who recently immigrated to Israel from Ukraine. The son, Pinchas, tries to fit in and starts studying for […]
Director Michael Kretzmer in attendance for Post Film Q&A Directed by Michael Kretzmer United Kingdom, 2022, 87 minutes Language English Genre Documentary This chilling Holocaust documentary — for adult audiences only — reveals the barbaric genocide of 220,000 people, or 95% of Lithuania’s Jews. Jonas Noreika was a Nazi collaborator personally responsible for slaughtering 8,000 […]
Directed by Mordechai Vardi Israel, 2022, 108 minutes Language Hebrew with English subtitles Foreign Language Title Akara Genre Drama This sensitive film — for adult audiences only — portrays a young ultra-Orthodox couple struggling to conceive their first child. The family seeks spiritual help by turning to religious customs and an itinerant “Rabbi” whose shofar-blowing […]
Were you not able to make it in person for some of our films? Purchase the Best of the Fest pass to see America, Barren and Love & Mazel Tov virtually. The films will be available to watch from March 31 to April 2nd and will be sent as a direct link. $33 Member | $41 Public
Be one of the first to enjoy a culinary experience in the Cramer-Jacobs Family Culinary Studio, the NEW hands-on culinary kitchen at the J! There are many opportunities to continue your Jewish learning journey through food. Morgan Jankovic, The Foodie Chef, will lead you in the preparation of recipes from the featured Jewish cookbook. In […]
Join your friends for Toddler Tales: Story & Play Time in the J’s indoor play space! Hear a children’s story and stay and play in the J’s indoor play space. These fun weekly story times will feature guest readers from the Houston Jewish Community and crafts that relate to the book of the week. Toddler […]
Join us for a pre-film sip and savor event. What better way to gear up for this comedy of errors than with light bites and a glass of champagne before the film! Menu: Champagne strawberries Fig and brie crostini Tahini honey whipped butter over toast with tomatoes/toppings Instructor: Hannah Abney The Cramer-Jacobs Family Culinary Studio […]
Directed by Wolfgang Mumberger Germany, 2020, 88 minutes Language German with English Subtitles Foreign Language Title Schönes Schlamassel Genre Comedy Anne, whose gentile grandparents profiteered in WWII, runs a Berlin bookstore specializing in Judaica and volunteers in a Jewish retirement home. Daniel, a newly single doctor, pretends to be Jewish at a party to impress […]
When school is out, the J is in! We can’t wait to show children in grades kindergarten through 5th what the buzz is about at the new Samuels Family Community Pavilion. Experience our beloved J Camp rooms with counselor-led activities, camp crafts and board games plus tons of fun in the arts studio, gymnastics center, […]
Celebrate Shabbat with your friends and family with open gym in the gymnastics center followed by musical services. Open gym will begin at 10:30 AM in the gymnastics center, followed by music and services at 11:30 AM. RSVPs are required and spaces are limited.
Bring your family to the J and create a beautiful challah for your Shabbat table with a Spring Family Challah Bake with Laykie from Laykie's Gourmet Cafe at the J. Laykie will guide us through the steps to create the challah dough, teach us how to braid the dough, and top it off with toppings. […]
Close out the end of Shabbat and welcome a new week with HANDSTANDS & HAVDALAH! Run, stretch and tumble in the gymnastics center followed by a musical havdalah program. The indoor playscape will be open for children 5 and under only to play in during the event.
Today Open until 9:00 pm
Tomorrow Open from 5:00 am to 9:00 pm
Thursday Open from 5:00 am to 9:00 pm
Friday Open from 5:00 am to 6:00 pm
If you need assistance at any time, call:
(713) 729-3200