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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:
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JCC on the Hudson, Frank Hassid, Executive
Director,
371 S. Broadway, Tarrytown, 10591, 366.7898
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Greenburgh Hebrew Center, Rabbi Barry Kenter,
(Conservative)
515 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, 10522, 693.4260
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Temple Beth Abraham, Rabbi David Holtz,
(Conservative & Reform)
25 Leroy Avenue, Tarrytown, 10591, 631.1770
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Woodlands Community Temple, Rabbi William
Dreskin, (Reform)
50 Worthington Road, White Plains, 10607, 592.7070
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Rosh Pinah Chavurah of the Rivertowns
P.O. Box 27, Hastings on Hudson, 10706, 591.6737
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