Ann Katz Festival of Books and Arts

Enjoy the Ann Katz Festival of Books and Arts

Celebrate 26 years of the Ann Katz Festival of Books & Arts! The JCC's 26th annual Ann Katz Festival of Books & Arts is a three-week festival featuring well-known authors, award-winning films and local visual and performing artists. This year's festival will open with the world-renowned Sephardic musician, Sarah Aroeste, who shares her Sephardic culture through Ladino-language music, and will also include programs with Israeli chef and restauranteur Moshe Basson, Rabbi Sandra Lawson (the first Black woman Rabbi ordained in Reconstructionist Judaism), and actor and author BJ Novak.