Speakers Bureau

The JHSMW maintains an active speakers bureau, with multiple talented individuals available to give historical presentations to community, school and fraternal organizations.

Available presentations

Title Summary
"Who's Minding the Store?" The story of the growth of New Jersey's premier supermarkets, Kings, ShopRite, and Pathmark, including a section devoted to mom-and-pop merchants who established family businesses in Essex, Morris, and Sussex counties, New Jersey, as early as 1886.
"The Jews of Morris County: Early Settlers, Synagogues, Hotel Resorts and Lake Communities" Documents the 170 year history of Jews who settled in these two counties, including the 100 year-old synagogue congregations in Pine Brook, Morristown, Mount Freedom, and Dover.
"It Happened at the Beth: Great Moments in the Life and Times of Newark Beth Israel Hospital" The human interest stories surrounding the founding, funding, and oversight of Newark Beth Israel Medical Center since 1901.
"One More Night at Elving's Metropolitan Yiddish Theater." Tells the story of Elving Metropolitan Yiddish Theater, located in Newark from 1922 to 1944. Elving's was New Jersey's most successful Yiddish theater, and a neighborhood favorite, attended by everyone from school children to legendary gangster Longy Zwillman.
"The Golden Door: 170 years of Jewish life in MetroWest and New Jersey" Like a survey of western civilization, the lecture touches the highlights of MetroWest history, i.e., the institutions and personalities who shaped the community, and in the process achieved national and world-wide recognition, especially in the world of entertainment.

SpeakerS Roster

Title

Name

Topics

Curator/Outreach Director

Linda Forgosh

General MetroWest history and exhibition-specific topics

President

Dr. Jerome Horowitz

Who's Minding the Store?

Secretary

Howard Kiesel

Old Newark

Past President

Warren Grover

Old Newark; Newark boxers; Jewish responses to Nazis in Newark

Past President Robert Max POW Experiences during WWII

Schedule

Title

 Date/Time Location
"One More Night at Elving's Metropolitan Yiddish Theater." September 20, 2007 at Noon Pine Brook Jewish Center, 74 Changebridge Road, Montville, NJ, 07045
"One More Night at Elving's Metropolitan Yiddish Theater." November 4, 2007 at 10:30 AM NCJW- West Morris Section Paid-Up Members Brunch, Alex Aidekman Family Campus, 901 Route 10 East, Whippany, NJ, 07981
"One More Night at Elving's Metropolitan Yiddish Theater." November 7, 2007 at 1 PM Congregation Beth Shalom, 193 East Mount Pleasant Avenue, Livingston, NJ
"The Jews of Morris County: Early Settlers, Synagogues, Hotel Resorts and Lake Communities" November 18, 2007 at 2 PM Frelinghuysen Arboretum, 53 Hanover Avenue, Whippany, NJ, 07981
"The Jews of Morris County: Early Settlers, Synagogues, Hotel Resorts and Lake Communities" December 1, 2007, at 2:30 PM Morris County Library , 30 East Hanover Avenue, Whippany, NJ, 07981
"One More Night at Elving's Metropolitan Yiddish Theater." December 16, 2007, at 10:30 AM Adath Shalom, 841 Mountain Way, Morris Plains, NJ, 07950
"The Jews of Morris and Sussex and their Newark Connections." February 11, 2008, at Noon Margulies Senior Center at the Leon and Toby Cooperman JCC, Ross Family Campus, 760 Northfield Avenue, West Orange, NJ, 07052