Virtually Neighbors Circle
What’s Virtually Neighbors? We are an all-and-always online community of folks connected with IKAR. (Folks who also join IKAR things in-person are welcome and IKAR membership is not required).
Virtually Neighbors – Movie Night: Funny Girl
In Funny Girl Barbara Streisand’s Fanny Brice, famed Jewish comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s, rises to fame as a Ziegfeld girl. The story follows her career and personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein. Funny Girl is a 1968 American biographical-musical film directed by William Wyler and written by Isobel Lennart. It is loosely based on the life and career of comedienne Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein.
A major critical and commercial success, Funny Girl became the highest-grossing film of 1968 in the United States and received eight Academy Award nominations. Streisand won Best Actress, tying with Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter). In 2006, the American Film Institute ranked the film No. 16 on its list commemorating AFI’s Greatest Movie Musicals. Funny Girl is considered one of the greatest musical films ever made.
Virtually Neighbors Circle: Hanukkah Party
We’ll have some fun and light some candles! Stay tuned for more details.
Virtually Neighbors Circle: Book Discussion
This book is lighthearted and full of good feelings. It’ll be fun to get together and talk about it. Even as a child in 1910, Sara Glikman knows her gift: she is a maker of matches and a seeker of soulmates. But among the pushcart-crowded streets of New York’s Lower East Side, Sara’s vocation is dominated by devout older men—men who see a talented female matchmaker as a dangerous threat to their traditions and livelihood. After making matches in secret for more than a decade, Sara must fight to take her rightful place among her peers, and to demand the recognition she deserves.
Two generations later, Sara’s granddaughter, Abby, is a successful Manhattan divorce attorney, representing the city’s wealthiest clients. When her beloved Grandma Sara dies, Abby inherits her collection of handwritten journals recording the details of Sara’s matches. But among the faded volumes, Abby finds more questions than answers. Why did Abby’s grandmother leave this library to her and what did she hope Abby would discover within its pages? Why does the work Abby once found so compelling suddenly feel inconsequential and flawed? Is Abby willing to sacrifice the career she’s worked so hard for in order to keep her grandmother’s mysterious promise to a stranger? And is there really such a thing as love at first sight?
Virtually Neighbors Circle: Erev Shavuot/Shavuot Get Together
More details to come.
Interested in starting a new group?
No judgement, really. Newbies and ringers, seekers and cynics, activists and ambivalents; the dynamism of our community is based on its diversity. Our work is to ignite sparks and create points of access to an invigorating and purposeful Jewish life. There is a spot waiting for you at our table. Come be a part of our community.