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The Adult Experience

Tot Shabbat                                     NEW!!!

Families with infants to 5 years are invited to join Rabbi Lisa Izes in celebrating Shabbat with songs, stories, holiday activities and, of course, challah and juice.

Help us ensure there is enough challah to go around by letting us know you are coming. Advanced registration is appreciated; drop-ins welcome.

Dress appropriately; we plan on kicking off the Tot Shabbat series in our outdoor sukkah.

Fridays, October 9, November 13, December 18

3:30-3:45 p.m.

Facilitator: Rabbi Lisa Izes

Fee: $10/session

 

 

Family Holiday Celebrations

 

Chanukah Program

Saturday, December 6

 

Purim Celebration

Sunday, February 28

 

Passover Program

Sunday, March 21

Matzah Baking

 

Look for details on all these events in the Current and e-news blasts.

 

 


 

Adult Education

 

Conversational Hebrew by Berlitz

Make the most of your Sunday mornings. Learn Hebrew!

Sunday, 9:45-10:45 a.m.

15 sessions begin October 18

Fee*: $635, JCC member $620

*The more the merrier, discounts available with enrollment of six or more participants.

 

PALs Bukharian Museum and Synagogue trip

Thursday, November 12

Discover the exotic customs and rituals of one of the oldest Jewish communities. According

to one theory, Bukarian Jews are descendants of fifth Century exiles from Persia. How they

got to Central Asia is obscure, but they maintained their distinctive Eastern practices in

relative isolation for thousands of years under Islamic and, later, Russian rule. Museum

rooms feature benches covered with vivid woven rugs; gold-embroidered wall hangings;

robes of silk, magenta and gold called jomas; and glittering kippot. A 400-year-old Torah

scroll written on deerskin and hand-copied siddurim passed from grandfather to grandson

evoke the religious life of the community.

Fee: $55, JCC member $45

 


 

Partnership 2000: Inspiration Israel, Jewish Mosaic Grant

 

 

Through a grant funded by UJA Federation of New York and the Jewish Agency for Israel, the JCC on the Hudson, JCC of Mid-Westchester and Ginot Ha’ir (a Matnas-Jewish Community Center) in Jerusalem have been partnering for nine years on various projects that have enabled American Jews and Israelis to appreciate their cultural similarities and differences. Through exploration to identify their Jewish roots and discover what brings them together as Jews, they connect to a worldwide Jewish peoplehood network.

 

The current initiative, twins teachers and administrators of six Westchester synagogue schools with their counterparts in six Jerusalem schools. This December, Israeli project participants will come to Westchester to attend a conference that will further the development of the grant’s mission. Inspiration Israel celebrates Jewish educators and education, constructs joint Israeli American curriculum and strengthens the Westchester Israel connection.

 


 

Rivertowns Jewish Consortium

 

 

Mayim Film Series: Individual Choices

The Many Faces of Jews

Wednesdays, October 14, 21, 28

7:30 p.m.

Greenburgh Hebrew Center, 515 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, New York

Fee: $30 Series, Individual Film: $12

 

“Four Seasons Lodge”

October 14

Filmmaker, Andrew Jacobs, Cinematographer, Albert Maysles

In an inspiring and startlingly funny documentary, “Four Seasons Lodge” follows a group of Holocaust survivors during what might be their final summer together at a bungalow colony in the Catskill Mountains. The film explores the power of friendship and the drive to find joy despite painful memories. It is a counterintuitive Holocaust documentary: a fusion of bawdy humor, stories of unimaginable loss, the last of the Borscht Belt crooners, and a family made entirely of friends and lovers.

 

“At Home in Utopia - the Coops”

October 21

Filmmakers, Michal Goldman, Ellen Brodsky

This is the story of the United Workers Cooperative Colony – aka the Coops – built in the Bronx in 1925. It was the dream home of Jewish garment workers, members of the United Garment Workers Union. The majority of the 2,000 residents, immigrants from Eastern Europe, Russia and Poland were Communist and lived a very communal life. At one time, the Bronx was home to four cooperatives, each representing a unique faction of communist and socialist ideology: The Amalgamated, largely Socialist, Sholem Aleichem Houses, founded by Yiddishists, was divided between Communists and Socialists, the Farband was Labor-Zionist. Only The Amalgamated is still operating as a cooperative today.

 

“Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning”

October 28

Director, Paolo Barman

Drancy, north of Paris, was one of the transit camps created by the French for Jews enroute to Auschwitz. The film is about the reunion of three survivors; Melanie (Susan Sarandon), Christopher (Gabriel Byrne), and Jakob Bronksi (Max von Sydow), who was their father figure and helped them survive the internment. Told partly in flashback, the meeting stirs up feelings in all of them that

 

 

RJC-JCC Membership

RJC synagogue congregants receive a 25% discount off JCC membership when they join either as new members or have let their JCC membership lapse for three years.

 

The Rivertowns Jewish Consortium is a collaboration among the following:

  • JCC on the Hudson, Frank Hassid, Executive Director,
    371 S. Broadway, Tarrytown, 10591, 366.7898
     

  • Greenburgh Hebrew Center, Rabbi Barry Kenter, (Conservative)
    515 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, 10522, 693.4260
     

  • Temple Beth Abraham, Rabbi David Holtz, (Conservative & Reform)
    25 Leroy Avenue, Tarrytown, 10591, 631.1770
     

  • Woodlands Community Temple, Rabbi William Dreskin, (Reform)
    50 Worthington Road, White Plains, 10607, 592.7070
     

  • Rosh Pinah Chavurah of the Rivertowns
    P.O. Box 27, Hastings on Hudson, 10706, 591.6737

 

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The mission of The Rivertowns Jewish Consortium (RJC) is to provide a framework in which the participating institutions can join as partners to meet the programmatic and communal needs of their membership by expanding the possibilities for education, guidance, and fundraising. Through the collaborative efforts of the professional and lay leadership, the Consortium seeks to promote and enrich the value and excitement of Jewish life in the Rivertowns.