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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.

 

 

 

 

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Jewish Experience

Yiddish - Learn the Mother Tongue

Join an exciting exploration into the “velt” of language, literature, songs and humor. No previous experience necessary to participate in this warm welcoming class.
Facilitator/Yiddist: Madeline Simon
Tuesday,  12:30-2:00 p.m.
10 sessions begin 9/21
Fee: $130, JCC member $110

 

 

International Global Jewish Initiatives
The Westchester-Jerusalem Connection

Project Coordinator: Lois Green

Over 10 years ago, we received a grant from UJA-Federation of New York to participate in what was then called Partnership 2000. The grant was designed to create strong bonds of understanding and communication between JCCs and the Westchester Jewish community and their counterparts in Israel. Past projects have included an art exhibit, an international cookbook and an initiative to bring Israeli and Westchester teenagers toward mutual understanding through music and a battle of the bands.

Westchester synagogue school educators and their Israeli counterparts have shared curriculum resulting in unique classroom experiences for students and teachers. This project, which celebrated Jewish educators and education, continues to foster the grant’s mission of strengthening the Westchester Israeli connection.

From the beginning, we have shared this grant with JCC of Mid-Westchester and our sister agency, Ginot Ha’ir, in Israel. More recently, we have worked with five conservative and reform synagogues: Congregation Sons of Israel, Congregation Kol Ami, Shaarei Tikvah, Temple Beth Abraham, and Woodlands Community Temple. We salute the teachers and administrators who have devoted their time, creativity and friendship into making the past two years an enormous success.

To build on the previous year’s foundation, lay leaders from the Westchester community will attend a conference in Jerusalem where synagogue leaders and administers from both sides of the world will come together to create exciting new vantage points from which to work and set goals for stronger and more dynamic future relationships.

 

 

 

 


 

Rivertowns Jewish Consortium

presents

 

Mayim : A Community Film Series

“The Jewish Tapestry: Differences”

 

Dates: Wednesdays, October 6, 13, 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Place: Greenburgh Hebrew Center, 515 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry
Donation: $25 series/$10 single film

“The Last Jews of Libya” documents the final decades of a centuries-old North African Sephardic Jewish community through the lives of the remarkable Roumani family, who lived in Benghazi, Libya, for hundreds of years.

Based on the recently discovered memoirs of the family's matriarch, Elise Roumani, as well as interviews in English, Hebrew, Italian, and Arabic with several generations of the Roumani family and a trove of rare archival film and photographs, it is an unforgettable tale.

At the end of World War II, thirty-six thousand Jews lived in Libya, today none remain.

October 6
Facilitator: Boris Rubinstein, Rosh Pinah Chavurah

“Of Stars and Shamrocks: Boston’s Jews and Irish” The Irish, escaping devastating famine and Russian Jews, fleeing pogroms, left the oppression of their countries with hope of freedom in America. The two ethnic groups settled in Protestant Brahmin Boston in the late 19th early 20th centuries, where they found the myth of a land of opportunity and acceptance shattered by bigotry, exploitation, exclusion and discrimination. Even as both groups were victims of Brahmin discrimination, each harbored prejudice against the other as they competed for jobs, housing, and education.

The film chronicles the impact on both groups by such figures as the vicious anti-Semite Father Charles Coughlin, Boston's Mayor James Michael Curly, and Cardinal Cushing (whose installation in the 1950s gave Boston its first decidedly pro-Jewish leader.)

Michalczyk's film provides a deep insight into the ties that have bound two underdog communities together over a century of struggle.

October 13
Facilitator: Rabbi David Holtz, Temple Beth Abraham

“Expulsion and Memory: Descendants of the Hidden Jews” In 1492, with the stroke of a pen, fifteen hundred years of Jewish life in Spain came to an abrupt end. In a Medival example of ethnic cleansing, the Jews of Spain were given a choice: expulsion or conversion. Half the community left, half converted. Many of the converted, known as Conversos, continued to practice Judaism in secret establishing a way of life that has survived to the present day.

Shot on location in Spain, Portugal, Israel, Canada, and the United States, this documentary tells the story of the Conversos and the memories that still haunt their descendants. Beautifully photographed and edited, the film features a lyrical Spanish/Sephardic soundtrack by some of the world's leading artists, including Placido Domingo, Zubin Metha and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Through extensive interviews with the children of secret believers, the film captures the modern resurrection of something ethereal: the ghost of a people.

October 20
Facilitator: Rabbi Barry Kenter, Greenburgh Hebrew Center

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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