Frisco Kid

6:00 Patio Party | 6:30 Guest Speaker | 7:00 Film

Rabbi Avram Belinsky (Gene Wilder) lands in Philadelphia intending to travel to San Francisco, where he plans on starting a synagogue. Quickly relieved of his belongings by a group of con artists, Avram optimistically sets out alone on foot toward the Wild West. He gets into one scrape after another until he is rescued, in a way, by a compassionate horseman named Tommy Lillard (Harrison Ford). Unfortunately, Tommy may not be quite as heroic as he seems, and it is still a long way to California.

Speaker: Stephen Soreff, MD aka Doc Steve is a nationally known author, lecturer, and teacher in mental health services. He has authored ten books on the subject. He is president of Education Initiatives, LLC. He is President of Etz Hayim Synagogue in Derry, NH and on the Jewish Federation of New Hampshire board. He teaches in Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of New Hampshire (OLLI at UNH) a film class called Madness and the Movies and the Roots and Routes of Jewish Humor: What HeBrews. He has written and lectured about humor’s healing power.