East Hampton - The Jewish Center will be presenting three events during the month of August. The events includea Special Presentation: "A Life at the Movies," with introduction by Morris Dickstein; Steven Pomerantz, JINSA Director and James C. Burke, Commanding Office of OCB to speak on Domestic Terrorism; and Kabbalat Shabbat Concert featuring flutist Mattan Klein followed by Shabbat musical tribute to Naomi Shemer.

Morris Dickstein

Toby and Dan Talbot will make a special presentstation entitled, "A Life at the Movies" with an introduction by movie critic Morris Dickstein. The event is on Monday, August 2 at 8 p.m. The movie will be followed by a book signing and a sponsored reception. The event is free and all are welcome.

The Talbots first owned and ran the New Yorker Theater in the 1960s, and then Manhattan's Cinema Studio and Metro Theater in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. The Talbots will talk about Toby's recently published book, "The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies."

Dickstein, is a distinguished critic of American literature, Professor of English and Theater at CUNY Graduate Center and author of the cultural history of the Great Depression, "Dancing in the Dark."

The New Yorker began as a revival house. The second program was films of the 1930s and 1940s. Double bills of classics, screwball comedies, Westerns, gangster movies, and musicals were "mismatched" and then theaters around the country began copying the programs.

Toby Talbot

The New Yorker Theater was what Bertolucci called a kind of wild cinema university and it came at a ripe moment - when audiences came to view film as an art form and not just popular entertainment. Moviegoers flocked to the New Yorker from the neighborhood and the five boroughs. They could see Murnau, Eisenstein, Griffith, von Sternberg, Lubitsch, Rossellini and Renoir - what Jean-Paul Sartre called "the frenzy on the screen."

In the first decade of the New Yorker, no program was repeated.

Steven Pomerantz, Director of Counter Terrorism Programs at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA ) and James C. Burke, Commanding Officer of the Suffolk County Police Department Organized Crime Bureau will discuss Domestic Terrorism on Thursday, August 5 at 7:30 p.m. This is a free event and all are welcome.

The Jewish Institute for National Security was founded as a result of the lessons learned from the 1973 Yom Kippur War. JINSA is an educational organization committed to explaining the need for a prudent national security policy for the United States addressing the security requirements of both the United States and Israel and strengthening the strategic cooperation relationship these two democracies.

The Suffolk County Organized Crime Bureau investigates criminal enterprises and corrupt government officials.

James C. Burke

The events of September 11, Oklahoma City bombing and Christmas Day underwear bomber in Chicago were all initially handled by local law enforcement or the joint FBI/NYPD terrorism task force. Fighting terror and eliminating terrorists has become a central theme and, sadly, a domestic necessity. The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, in the global world economy, no longer afford us the protection to which we have become accustomed. Through JINSA's Law Enforcement Exchange Program, many senior American law enforcement officials (including our own Inspector Burke) have benefitted from experiences and information that they have gained through exposure to their colleagues in Israel.

The Jewish Center presents Israeli flutist Mattan Klein playing a Kabbalat Shabbat Concert on Friday, August 6 at 7:30 p.m. before Friday Night Services. Klein will then be joined by other musicians from his band Seeds of Sun to play a musical tribute to Israeli Naomi Shemer during the 8 p.m. Shabbat service. The performances are free and all are welcome.

Klein is one of today's hottest Jazz/World Music flutists, blending a new clear and fluent flute sound with some of New York's brightest contemporary new voices. Klein performs extensively on stages across North America, and is often touring the world as a leader and as a sideman. Past performances include Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington DC, New Jersey Performing Arts Center programs, Blues Alley in Washington DC, 92nd street Y in New York, Regatta‐;Bar in Boston, and The Skirball Cultural Center in
Los Angeles.

The tribute to Shemer is part of a continuing Seeds of Sun program that started in December 2009. Seeds of Sun have established themselves as the leading Israeli-Jazz ensemble in North America, blending music written in Israel in a Jazz and World Music setting with original Israeli Jazz. The band has played at The Kennedy Center and the 92nd Street Y and has also traveled to Hong Kong, Vietnam, and The Philippines.

Kabbalat Shabbat services concerts are presented monthly, bringing a calm and joyous period of reflection to help welcome Shabbat.