2025 Book and Author luncheon: April 23 11am - 3pm

THE STUDY GROUPS BELOW ARE OPEN TO CURRENT MEMBERS.  NEW MEMBERS ARE ENTITLED TO ONE FREE STUDY GROUP (DOES NOT APPLY TO CANASTA OR MAH JONGG).

COST IS $20 FOR ONE GROUP; $36 FOR TWO OR MORE GROUPS.  NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE THROUGH THE YEAR EXCEPT FOR CANASTA.  

ALL CHECKS MADE PAYABLE TO: BNC GREATER BOSTON

NOTE: THE BNC ONLINE CHAPTER IS SEPARATE. PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW FOR INFORMATION AND THE PRICE TO JOIN.

Every other Thursday 10:00-11:30am - rotating houses

Learn to knit or come to enjoy knitting with others. Knitting in a group is a great way to make sure you finish your project. Learn from scratch to make lapghans and shawls for Senior Living or work on your own creation.

Facilitator: Audree Dyson

1st Thursday each moth begins Nov. 7 11:00am

Over twenty-five years before his ascension to the Supreme Court, Louis Brandeis first made a national reputation by making the first attempt to spell out a legal “right to privacy.” Courts have been struggling ever since with the task of defining how far our rights to privacy go.

This study group is intended to allow us to discuss our own attempts to decide what the boundaries of the privacy right ought to be. Each of the six case studies is based upon an actual dispute, and each boasts the kind of fact pattern that we hope will be interesting and provocative enough to encourage careful thinking and robust debate. 

UMass Dining Hall on the Mt Ida campus

100 Carlson Ave.

Newton 

Led by Merle Carrus

Canasta Play and Instruction

Mondays 1:00 - 4:00  

Please join us on Monday afternoons from 1:00 - 4:00 for open play and instruction. We will place experienced players in groups and introduce new players to the rules and strategy of the game. Invite your friends to join us. 

ADDRESS:

1 Morell St., West Roxbury

$75 per session in addition to your annual membership fee

Session 1: Sept - Jan 27

Session 2: Feb 3 - June 23

Led by Leslie Pearlstein and Audree Dyson

 3rd Wednesday each month  11:00AM  Begins September 18

Attention all mystery detective readers... We are gearing up for another year of unraveling the mysterious circumstances hidden in mystery novels both new and old. Come join our group of intrepid puzzle solvers as we decipher the clues and uncover the whodunits. 

UMass Dining Hall on the Mt Ida campus

100 Carlson Ave.

Newton 

(occasionally on Zoom)

Led by Merle Carrus

4th Wednesday each month 10:30am  Begins September 25

Each month, a member of the group chooses a story and leads the discussion. We will continue using Here I Am, Contemporary Jewish Stories from Around the World Edited by Marsha Lee Berkman and Elaine Marcus Starkman. This year we will add Frankly Feminist, Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine Edited by Susan Weidman Schneider and Yona Zeldis McDonough. Both are available on Amazon.

We will begin meeting on Zoom, then decide whether to meet in person. 

Once registered, you will be notified of the first story to read.

Led by Audree Dyson

1st Tuesday each month - 10:30am  Begins October 1

Come join us for another season of great movies! They will be chosen from Netflix, Amazon

Prime, and On Demand, as well as movies currently in the theater. Discussions will remain on

Zoom. We will let you know the first movie in advance. Bring your own popcorn.

Led by: Marilyn Howard and Nancy Grodin

3rd Wednesday each month - 10:00 - 11:00am   Begins October 16

Join us for a chance to discuss the many issues of the day, be they local, national or international. Being an election year, there should certainly be much to talk about and we welcome all opinions. Please note the day change from the 2nd to the 3rd Wednesday of each month. We meet at Mt. Ida/UMass Campus in the dining hall.

Led by: Abby Raelin and Joie Feinberg

2nd Tuesday at 11 AM.  Begins October 8

Meets at Sylvia Goodman's home in Newton.

Each month we will discuss a fiction story from the New Yorker.  Come join the discussion even if you don't have a subscription!  The New Yorker is available in your library and most stories can be found online as well.  You will be notified of our first story a few weeks before the first meeting..  Feel free to contact Sylvia with any questions. 

Led by: Sylvia Goodman

Five Wednesdays at 10:00am:  Nov. 6, Dec 4,  Jan. 8, March 5, May 7

In reading history we learn about events. In reading historical fiction we learn how people lived through them: How they were affected, what they thought and felt. In this study group we will read four books. The first will be Table for Two by Amor Towles. Because of the broad interest in this beloved author’s latest book – and because it comprises six short stories and one novella – we will spend the first two meetings (Nov. 6 and Dec 4) – each 1.5 hours – discussing the book. During the first meeting we will also vote on the three other books we will read. These remaining meetings will each be one hour.

UMass Dining Hall on the Mt Ida campus

100 Carlson Ave.

Newton 

Led by: Rita Stulin

Join us virtually every month for a discussion of a book chosen from the challenged book list.  BNC President Merle Carrus, P’12, has picked a variety of books and will lead the monthly book discussion. Your one-time registration will sign you up for monthly discussions beginning in October.  Sign up online for the year of reading banned books.

 NOTE: THIS GROUP IS FROM THE BNC ONLINE CHAPTER. Use the link below to register.

Friday May 9  at 11 am. 

Join us for surrealist artist Leonora Carrington's first ever exhibition in New England. Entitled DREAM WEAVER, it presents dozens of her paintings, drawings, and even a woven tapestry; spans sixty years of her career and was inspired by folklore, mysticism, religion, etc. One of her paintings recently sold at auction for $28.5 million! 

Group size is limited to 15 so sign up soon.

Members: $18 Non-members: $25

Friday June 6 at 11AM

Come and enjoy a tour of Long Hill Mansion and Sedgwick Gardens in Beverly. The tour covers the beautiful Federal style home built by the Atlantic Monthly editor and publisher Ellery Sedgwick in 1916, and the spacious gardens that surround it. The gardens were designed by Ellery's wife, Mabel Cabot Sedgwick, author of the authoritative gardening manual "The Garden Month by Month."

The tour lasts approximately one hour and takes place both indoors and outdoors, sometimes on uneven terrain.  Group size is limited to maximum of 20 people.

Members: $25 Non-members: $35

Each spring, we organize a collection for Welcome Home, a nonprofit agency which distributes home goods to families in need. In the past, we have donated linen closet items and

glassware. Each year, Welcome Home lets us know what items they are in need of.

This spring we will be collecting towels of all  types and sizes. Please set aside towels in  good condition, no rips or stains. Bath, hand, beach, kids' and kitchen towels will be accepted. Click the button below to participate and you'll receive the drop off location for Wednesday, April 30 from 10am - 1pm.

Calling all knitters and crocheters. Please continue to make shawls and lapghans to be donated to elder residents of Hebrew Senior Life in Roslindale, Newbridge on the Charles in Dedham and Orchard Cove in Canton. Save your creations for the fall collection.

Please store away any books you're willing to pass along to More Than Words, a non-profit social enterprise program that empowers troubled young adults to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a book-selling business. For more information on More Than Words click on the link.

Acceptable to Donate: gently-used hardcover books and paperbacks, any subject including foreign language; textbooks no older than 10 years (may be underlined); CDs and DVDs in original cases; records; video games. 

Not Acceptable: textbooks older than 10 years, encyclopedias, magazine/journals, audio cassettes, VHS tapes. 

Our next drive collection will be announced soon.