Eat, Drink, Converse
Estero Area Breakfast
Join your MCA friends for a monthly breakfast at Skillets in Estero.
Click here to have a look at the menu.
Questions? email
Neil Chesson (Nov and Dec)
Ken Marcus (Jan - April)
East Naples Breakfast
Registration Opens 9/13/25
Join your MCA friends for a monthly breakfast on the second Thursday of each month.
We meet at Thee City's Grill in the Town Center Shopping Center, 3883 Tamiami Trail East.
You need to re-register for this season in order to receive your monthly reminders
Questions? Email Barry Denkensohn
Wine Club
Register once for the season and receive a reminder for each upcoming session announcing the wine selections for that month
If you were registered for the Special Opening Event you will still need to register once for this regular season
The MCA Wine Club is dedicated to wine education and wine enjoyment. We know and accept that members will bring varying levels of wine knowledge, experience and understanding to our meetings. ALL ARE WELCOME!
Please come if you want to learn and enjoy wine with like-minded MCA members. For this season, all participants will contribute $25 at each tasting. This is to offset costs of wine and refreshments, which will be brought by those who volunteer. Whoever brings wine or refreshments will be partly reimbursed to the extent available from the entry fees collected.
December 17th- At this meeting we will be tasting wines made from different red grape varietals -- cabernet sauvignon, syrah, merlot, pinot noir and malbec. Can we taste the difference, and identify which is which?
January 19th-California Cabernets
February 19th-Rhone Wines
March 16th-TBD
April 20th-TBD
Wines for upcoming meetings will be chosen at the preceding meeting.
Please contact Jim Aronson with any questions.
Cigar Group
Join our group of like minded cigar aficionados who enjoy a good cigar. Besides cigars, good conversation and drinks, the group plans to have 1 or 2 cigar dinners during the season, as well as other cigar related events. We'll move around a bit, generally meeting once or twice a month, depending on interest and availability.
One signup gets you on the email list to receive meeting notices.
Happiness is
a good breakfast
a bunch of friends
Come join us Thursday February 19
at 745 or 900 am
the MCA Weekly Breakfast where dairy, meat and eggs are served in hearty portions for a few shekels. reserve your time now Glenn Perrin
Long Island Area Lunch
Inaugural Edition
Registration is Open
Are your roots on Long Island?
Join fellow Long Islanders for lunch and a get together at the House of Omelets on Piper Boulevard - just North of Immokalee at Airport Road in Naples.
Registration is required. This is a members only not coed event
Questions? Contact your host, Gary Sanders
Oy, stop your kvetching about rising prices!
Tuesday, Feb 24
Mare Terra
28340 Trails Edge Blvd Bonita Springs
SPECIAL MENU $36.26 all evening
includes soup or salad, one of 11 entreés, and dessert (veal and branzino dishes for + $5)
or $25 special Pasta Night, or à la carte avb
SO CHOOSE a time, inside or outside
500ish 600ish 700ish
New Englanders Lunch
Are your roots in New England? Do you root for the Patriots?
Join fellow New Englanders for lunch and a get together at the House of Omelets on Piper Boulevard - just North of Immokalee at Airport Road in Naples.
Questions? Contact your host, Arnie Pulver
Registration opens 1/7/26
10th Annual Sweetheart Dinner Dance
with the
Dazzling DelRays
Join us for the 10th annual Sweetheart Dinner Dance. Spend time with old and new friends. The evening includes a cocktail reception, a top notch dinner, and great music provided by the Dazzling DelRays. Everyone is sure to have a rockin' good time.
The last nine Sweetheart Dances sold out, so make your reservation early!!
Monthly Luncheon
Registration opens 1/8/26
Electric Vehicles:
The Road Ahead
Hear from an expert about the current status and what the future holds for electric vehicles. Learn about EV technology and capabilities, research and development, government regulation, and the economics of electric vehicles.
Learn also about FGCU's Emergent Technologies Institute, a research and development complex opened in Fort Myers in 2016 to support interdisciplinary research, graduate education, and technology development.
Peter Michael is an Instructor and Research Associate at FGCU's Emergent Technologies Institute, specializing in renewable energy development. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Florida. He moved to Florida following a long career at Science Applications International Corporation (SIAC) and its successor company, Leidos, where he held positions as a Solutions Architect and Principal Engineer.
Cancellation Policy: No refund if cancellation is within 7 days of the event.
Questions? Email Michael Sobol.
Note: This luncheon is at Stonebridge Country Club
2100 Winding Oaks Way, Naples
"Boys from da Bronx" Brunch
Join your fellow MCA members who have a home or grew up in the Bronx for a casual brunch.
Although the Yankees didn't make it to the World Series this year its always great to get together with fellow Bronxites to celebrate the best borough in the City.
If you grew up in da Bronx, went to school there, worked or lived there, were a Bronx 3-sewer stickball hitter, or had some other close connection to the Borough we'd love to see yo
Reservations are required.
Questions? Contact your host, Gene Briskman
Special
NE Ohio
Brunch
Enjoy a casual brunch with fellow MCA members who are from Northeastern Ohio (Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Youngstown & Warren), now living in the Naples area.
Questions? Contact your host, Mark Cohn
Mini-Golf and Dinner
Volcano Mountain Adventure Golf*
A coed event
You and a guest can register to join MCA friends for a late afternoon of mini-golf followed by dinner.
After a 4:30 shotgun start for 40 players, we will all go to Taco's and Tequila across the street in Founder's Square for dinner and to brag about our rounds.
* Located behind the Racetrack gas station on Immokalee, east of Collier.
Questions? Contact Jeff Morgenstern.
Bring your friends and family to Lowdermilk Beach to join your fellow MCA'ers for an afternoon (and evening) of food and fun. Bring your own favorite food, beverages, and games.
Rain date will be the next day
For more info, email Jeff Morgenstern
Baltimore Area Lunch
March Edition
Registration opens 1/27/26
Still follow the Ravens and O's? Join your fellow Charm City-ers for lunch and a get together. (Howard, Carroll, Montgomery, PG, Anne Arundel, and Queen Anne's County folks invited too!)
Questions? Contact your host, Mark Goetz
The Nobel Prize and its many Jewish Awardees
MCA Member Steve Yussen
Swedish engineer, entrepreneur, and inventor, Alfred Nobel, set up an endowment to recognize outstanding contributions to mankind, with the first awards conferred after his death, in 1901, in five different fields, and more awards conferred in a 6th field (Economics) since the 1960s.
As of 2024, it is estimated that over 200 Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. This number represents approximately 20% of all Nobel laureates, despite Jews constituting less than 0.2% of the world's population.
Steve considers those outcomes, the award itself, its history, controversies, and the impact of some of its prominent Jewish awardees in different fields.
Steve Yussen earned his bachelors degree in psychology at Swarthmore College, his Ph.D. In developmental psychology at the University of Minnesota, and had a career spanning 48 years as a Professor,, teaching, conducting research in cognitive development, memory, and reading, and serving as an administrator at 3 universities, UW- Madison, U of Iowa, and the University of Minnesota, where he retired in 2020.
All Shook Up
at the
Broadway Palm Dinner Theater
It’s Footloose, Grease and Happy Days all rolled into one zany story. This hip-swiveling musical is inspired by the songs of Elvis Presley and features over 24 Elvis hits! The story takes place in 1955, in a square little town in the middle of a square little state. A young mechanic named Natalie dreams of escaping her quiet Midwestern life. When a tall, handsome motorcycling stranger with blue-suede shoes and a guitar strapped to his back rides into town in search of a mechanic, Natalie’s whole life changes.
Buffet dinner and show $65 per person.
Registration opens February 19
COED
MCA is non-partisan, non-sectarian, welcomes men of all faiths, and is run entirely by volunteers.
Men's Cultural Alliance
Nina Iser Jewish Cultural Center
4720 Pine Ridge Rd
Naples FL 34119
239-263-4205
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