JCC Conversations | Mark Braun

Wed, 02/01/2023 - 5:04pm

Learn about Mark’s adventures including putting the bike with the piano on a boat and towing it with the help of volunteer swimmers from St. Ignace to Mackinac Island.

Mr. B is a blues and boogie-woogie pianist who has become one of the premiere purveyors of a vanishing art. Having learned his craft first-hand from the early masters, he is a rare living link to the first generation of blues and boogie pianists.

Steeped in the rich legacy of this tremendously exciting music, Mr. B learned directly from blues and boogie legends like Little Brother Montgomery, Boogie Woogie Red, and Blind John Davis.

JCC Conversations | Nancy Wang – Executive Director of Voters Not Politicians

Wed, 02/01/2023 - 5:03pm

What are the very real possibilities that it will become much more difficult to vote in Michigan and how the Promote the Vote ballot initiative can block the current effort to suppress the vote?

JCC Conversations | Derrick Miller and Nataliya Starak

Wed, 02/01/2023 - 5:01pm

Derrick Miller is the Executive Director of the Community Action Network in Ann Arbor Michigan and he felt he had to do something to help the people of Ukraine.  The experience was intense, to say the least, but it was also highly impactful.  While he was there he was assisted by Nataliya Starak who has fascinating and heartwarming stories to share with us.

On Conversations they will touch on experiences at 2 refugee centers, a hostel with nearly 300 Ukrainian women and children, multiple border crossings, and hundreds of interactions with a myriad of foreign volunteers, refugees, Polish and Ukrainian authorities and even the pets of Ukrainian refugees.

JCC Conversations | Thomas Zurbuchen – Inside NASA

Wed, 02/01/2023 - 5:01pm

Chuck Newman interviews Thomas Zurbuchen, a distinguished Swiss-American astrophysicist. Dr. Zurbuchen has been the Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA since October 2016. He is responsible for the selection of NASA’s missions and their implementation. Get the inside scoop about NASA’s achievements and plans straight from the source!

JCC Conversations | Nurit Gery, Christina, Te’ena and Hussein

Wed, 02/01/2023 - 4:58pm

Guest speaker Nurit Gery, director of Givat Haviva International School in northern Israel along with students Christina, Te’ena and Hussein from GHIS which is a coed boarding high school that brings together promising young students from diverse communities and varying economic backgrounds. Over three years they train to become leaders for cross-cultural cooperation and conflict resolution.

Their stories are fascinating and will give you hope.

JCC Conversations | Attorney Alan Levine

Wed, 02/01/2023 - 4:53pm

Our guest on Conservations will be Alan Levine, one of a trio of pro bono heroes who scored a $26-mln verdict against Charlottesville rally organizers.

Hear the inspiring story of how he spent 4 weeks in “a bubble of hate and violence” as he cross examined the white supremacists that organized and led the antisemitic and racist violence that resulted in the death of Heather Heyer and the injuring of dozens of others, including seven of the plaintiffs in the suit.

JCC Conversations | Yalcin Yanıkoğlu, Sergio Martinez-Beltrán, Bob Chunn and Mark Brewer

Wed, 02/01/2023 - 4:35pm

Now that the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission has issued new maps, come learn what that means for you and for future elections. Guests on Conversations! will be Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Capital Reporter for Bridge Magazine, Bob Chunn and Yalcin Yonikoglu of Next Vote and Mark Brewer of Goodman Acker P.C.

JCC Conversations | Implementing Restorative Justice – Dulin, Savit, Burton-Harris, Dr.”Ike” McKinnon

Wed, 02/01/2023 - 4:30pm

Chuck Newman interviews Belinda Dulin, the Executive Director of the Dispute Resolution Center, Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit and Chief Assistant Prosecutor Victoria Burton-Harris about Implementing Restorative Justice in Washtenaw County. Restorative Justice is a dramatic new approach for resolving crimes that can change offender’s behavior and give comfort to victims.

JCC Conversations | Joshuah Silverman

Wed, 02/01/2023 - 4:11pm

Inside story on how Josh Silverman CEO of Etsy took Etsy’s market capitalization from $1.56B in May of 2017 to $27.9B today. Etsy, Inc. is an American e-commerce company focused on handmade or vintage items and craft supplies.  We will talk about growing up in Ann Arbor and his amazing career.

JCC Conversations | Stanton Newman

Wed, 02/01/2023 - 3:57pm

Interview with Stan Newman live from London. Stan recently found a stash of letters written by his father in 1937 describing his trip to Germany and Eastern Europe. Stan will describe what his father learned and his life as a pilot fighter in North Africa and as a spy in South Africa during WWII.