MCA is an affinity group of the Jewish Federation of Greater Naples, fostering camaraderie among intellectually curious and physically active men


Eat, Drink and Talk with Friends

These events occur throughout the year. Some meet weekly and others on a periodic basis. 

Scroll down to read about each event and click on the event name  for additional information and to register.

The Great Outdoors

  • MCA Cigar Group - Season Sign-up

    • October 15, 2025
    • Varied Locations During the Season - Starting Oct 15
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    Cigar Group



    Sign up for the Season

    and 

    Let Us Know if You Can Attend our October 15 Opening Event 


    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.

    Two ways to join:

    1) Sign up for our October 15 Opening Event at 3:30pm at Burn Lounge in Mercato - You'll be on the list for the season.

    or

    2) Sign up for the season if you can't make it in October


    For additional information contact Marc Fleischer.
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  • Welcome Back BBQ

    • November 02, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • The Patio at the Nina Iser Center
    • 48
    • 102 registrants
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    Welcome Back

    Member BBQ


    This is a guys only, non-coed event

    Join your fellow MCA Members for a welcome back celebration on the Iser Center patio and Schiff Hall.

    Meet! Greet! Schmooze! 

    Bring some guy friends/potential members!

    Play ping pong, foosball, corn hole, putt golf balls and just hang!

    Dogs, burgers, fixings, sides, drinks, and desserts supplied. Just show up with your appetite. (BYOB)

    Grill closes at 1:30pm

    $18/person for all you can eat.

    Please register by October 26th

    And don't forget to wear your MCA attire.

          For more information contact Max Weisberg.

      

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  • MCA North Breakfast

    • November 12, 2025
    • April 08, 2026
    • 6 sessions
    • Skillets in East University Village Ft Myers (Ben Hill and Estero Blvd)
    • 19
    • 11 registrants
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    MCA North Breakfast


    Join your MCA friends for breakfast at a
    new location (Skillets) in Estero.


    Click here to have a look at the menu.


    Questions? email


            Neil Chesson (Nov and Dec)

     Ken Marcus  (Jan - April)


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  • East Naples Breakfast

    • November 13, 2025
    • March 12, 2026
    • 5 sessions
    • Thee City's Grill, 3883 Tamiami Trail, Naples
    • 17
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    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 Dickensohn 


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  • Monthly Luncheon November - My Career in Sports Media

    • November 13, 2025
    • 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
    • Audubon Country Club
    • 42
    Register

    Registration opens 9/12/2025

    My Career in Sports Media

    Conversation with Marc Appleman

    Marc's career in sports media featured early adaptation to emerging technologies and new media. Along the way, he met many interesting sports personalities, reporters, broadcasters, league and media executives and entrepreneurs. This presentation will include anecdotal memories of groundbreaking launches, interactions with interesting sports figures and behind-the-scenes details from major games and events. 

    A graduate of the University of Michigan, Marc started out out as a sportswriter at the Los Angeles Times and went on to hold high-profile positions at ESPN, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Fox Sports, AOL’s Sports Channel, and he served as the CEO of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). He also authored two books: Dad, Are You Pumped? A Father-Son Baseball Odyssey, and Joe Montana, a Sports Illustrated for Kids biography. 

    Questions? Email Michael Sobol.



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  • Baltimore Area Lunch- November Edition

    • November 14, 2025
    • 12:00 PM
    • Angelo's Southern Grill 8795 Tamiani Trail N. Naples FL 34108
    • 13
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    Baltimore Area Lunch November Edition


    Registration opens 9/14/25




    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!)

    Registration is required. This is a members only not coed event

    Questions? Contact your host, Mark Goetz



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  • Wine Club 25-26 Season Opening Event

    • November 17, 2025
    • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Nina Iser Jewish Cultural Center
    • 0
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    Wine Club 25-26 Season Opening Event

    Registration Opens 9/17/25


    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 join the group if you want to learn and enjoy wine with like-minded MCA members at each of the six monthly meetings, from November, 2025 to April, 2026. All participants will contribute $25 at each tasting, to offset costs, including wine, refreshments and supplies.

    Our initial meeting for this season will be a special tasting of four outstanding, aged cabernet sauvignon wines from the personal cellars of three MCA members (Jim Aronson, Jim Simon and Jay Weintraub). It will be a great event, with wines from the following well-known California estates: Mondavi, Caymus, Realm and Maybach. We will also taste Bordeaux from Chateau Pichon Longueville Baron, for comparison with the cabernets.

    The unusual nature of this special tasting will require that we limit the number of participants, so register early!  Future tastings, where the wines will be provided by members who volunteer to bring a bottle, will not be so limited.

    Please contact Jim Aronson with any questions.


    Anyone who wants to bring an interesting or favorite bottle of white wine should do so.  Please let Barry know what you're planing to bring.  As we're tasting whites, you won't need to open the bottles in advance, so if we have a lot of wines, we may not open them all.   You should also be prepared to speak about the winemaker, vineyard, year and the wine.
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  • A Night of Laughter with Comedian Craig Shoemaker

    • December 07, 2025
    • 6:00 PM
    • Off the Hook Comedy Club 500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd Naples
    • 5
    • 95 registrants


    An Evening of Laughter with Comedian Craig Shoemaker

    A Coed Event

    Share laughs with your fellow MCA members and friends during an enjoyable evening featuring one of America’s top comedians.

    Craig Shoemaker has  been on Broadway, performed standup comedy for four US Presidents, guest starred with recurring acting roles on network TV, performed solo television specials, and has been nominated for several comedy awards. 

    MCA has reserved a block of tickets at the promotional rate of $20.99/pp. Once you register you will get an email with the link to the Off the Hook website where you will purchase your tickets (2 max). You will also receive the promotional code that you will enter on the order summary page to get the discounted rate.

    Off the Hook has an extensive menu and each ticket holder has a 2 drink/food item minimum, payable at the time of the show.

    Off the Hook does not give refunds but does offer optional ticket insurance at $8.99/pp

    For questions contact Marty Weiss


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  • Monthly Luncheon December - Economic and Market Forecasts

    • December 11, 2025
    • 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
    • Audubon Country Club
    • 120
    Registration is closed

    Registration opens 10/11/2025

    Economic and Market Forecasts 

    Michael Farr – President/Founder, Farr, Miller & Washington; Chief Market Strategist, Hightower Advisors; CNBC Contributor

    Michael Farr will deliver his insights into current market conditions and a forecast of the probable, plausible, and possible paths forward. The economy has changed dramatically, and investors are presented with new opportunities as well as new threats. Michael's message is that Discipline, Diversification, and Patience are the watchwords as you forge your investment future.

    Questions? Email Michael Sobol.



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  • Monthly Lunch January - Goodbye Walter Cronkite. The Media has Changed

    • January 08, 2026
    • 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
    • Iser Cultural Center
    • 120
    Registration is closed


    Goodbye Walter Cronkite

    The Media has Changed

    Registration Opens 11/08/2025

    It is not just your imagination.  The media has gone through a dramatic transformation since the days when Walter Cronkite was widely considered “the most trusted man in America” and when Simon and Garfunkel sang: “There’s no times at all: Just the New York Times.”

    Gail MarksJarvis, who has been a prominent journalist in newspapers, TV and radio for more than four decades, explains what has changed and what hasn’t, how journalists make decisions and grapple with personal opinions when covering the news, the angst within newsrooms that is driving change, and what to expect in the future as old media appears headed into its twilight years.

    Questions? Email Michael Sobol.



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  • MCA/WCA Couples Canasta Night

    • January 12, 2026
    • 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • The Vineyards Country Club - 400 Vineyards Blvd, Naples
    • 32
    Registration is closed


    MCA/WCA Couples Canasta Night



    Join with your MCA/WCA friends for an evening of dinner and canasta. 

    You must sign up as a foursome, with a designated captain.

    The cost is $60.00 per participant ($240 per team).  The team captain registers and pays for all team members. 

    No Refunds after January 2.             

    All participants must be members of MCA or WCA.

    Please bring cards and a tray.

    The dress code is 'country club casual' (no shorts or jeans). 

    Questions?

    Contact Arlene or Michael Sobol at asobol99@gmail.com

    or

    Donna or Avie Goldstein at donnagoldstein@gmail.com


    Registration Opens November 12
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  • Wine Appreciation-Great Wines from Around the U.S.

    • February 03, 2026
    • 5:45 PM - 8:00 PM
    • Total Wine Naples - Promenade at Naples Centre, 6424 Naples Blvd.
    • 38
    Registration is closed

    Wine Appreciation - Great Wines From Around The United States


    A coed event

    Registration opens 12/3/25

    Please join us for a wine tasting at Total Wine, Naples. We will sample eight (8) wines from different US regions. The Wine Educator will discuss the characteristics and local geography of each wine. To complete the tasting experience, hors d'oeuvres will be served. 

    The cost is $20/person

    For questions contact Rob Brown



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  • Monthly Luncheon February - My Career as an NFL Referee

    • February 12, 2026
    • 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
    • Audubon Country Club
    • 120
    Registration is closed

    Registration opens 12/12/2025

    My Career as an NFL Referee


    How I got to the NFL, a typical week for a referee, equipment we used, highlights, stories and videos from my career, as well as comments on the recent SuperBowl.

    Ft. Myers attorney Jeffrey Rice, who has been moonlighting as an NFL referee for 25 years, hung up his whistle for the final time after last Sunday’s Pro Bowl.

    Over the past 25 years, Rice has officiated more than 400 NFL games and been granted 24 postseason assignments, including four Super Bowls and four Pro Bowls. Postseason officiating crews are considered the league’s top game officials. Rice is one of only 105 officials to work a Super Bowl game, and one of just 16 who have worked three or more Super Bowls, including two of the closest championship games in NFL history.

    Questions? Email Michael Sobol.



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  • Monthly Luncheon March - Electric Vehicles: The Road Ahead

    • March 12, 2026
    • 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
    • Iser Cultural Center
    • 140
    Registration is closed

    Electric Vehicles:

    The Road Ahead 

    Registration opens 1/8/26

    Dr. Peter Michael

    FGCU Emergent Technologies Institute

    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.

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  • Baltimore Area Lunch- March Edition

    • March 20, 2026
    • 12:00 PM
    • Angelo's Southern Grill 8795 Tamiani Trail N. Naples FL 34108
    • 18
    Registration is closed


    Baltimore Area Lunch

    March Edition


    Registration opens 1/9/26




    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!)

    Registration is required. This is a members only not coed event

    Questions? Contact your host, Mark Goetz



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  • Beach Party

    • March 25, 2026
    • 5:30 PM
    • Lowdermilk Beach
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    Registration opens 1/25/26

    Beach Party!

    A coed event

    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

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  • Monthly Luncheon April - The Nobel Prize and its many Jewish Awardees

    • April 16, 2026
    • 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
    • Nina Iser Jewish Cultural Center
    • 140
    Registration is closed

     The Nobel Prize and its many Jewish Awardees 


    Registration opens 2/16/26

    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. 



    Cancellation Policy: No refund if cancellation is within 7 days of the event.

    Questions? Email Michael Sobol.

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  • All Shook Up - Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre

    • April 19, 2026
    • 5:30 PM
    • Broadway Palm Dinner Theater - 380 Colonial BLVD, Ft. Myers
    • 64
    Registration is closed


    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

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