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Adventures in Jewish Culture
(Grades
K-2)
Explore
Jewish culture through crafts, cooking, stories, and holiday
celebrations. Learn about Israel, its people, and a little
Hebrew through games and songs. Fee includes materials.
Instructor: Hasia Monselise, a native Israeli, teaches
at the Solomon Schechter Hebrew Day School.
Tuesday,
3200A/B
5:00-6:00
p.m.
Fall:
13 sessions begin September 16
Fee:
$185
JCC member
$165
Spring:
16 sessions begin January 27
Fee:
$225
JCC member
$200
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Family Holiday Celebrations
Chanukah Family Celebration
Triumph of the Maccabees,
presented by the Robert
Rogers Puppet Company
Thursday, December 18 at 6:00 p.m.
Fee: $5 adult, $3
child
Leah just doesn’t
understand the meaning of Chanukah, and can’t get into the spirit of the
holiday. Along comes The Famous Chelm Players, a troupe of
bumbling, foolish, well meaning, amateur actors who’ve made it their
mission to bring to life the history and holidays of Judaism. With the
curtain about to go up, their star performer Herschel Kishkes, is
indisposed, having eaten too many sufganiot (jelly donuts). Poor Leah is
drafted as a last minute replacement, and thrust into a performance,
learns about her Jewish heritage and comes to truly appreciate the
Chanukah celebration.
Join us for this
wonderful performance and a light supper complete with potato latkes and
sufganiot!
Purim Family
Carnival
Sunday, March 8 at 1:30 p.m.
Fee: $5 adult, $3
child
Families with children
of all ages are invited to celebrate the Festival of Purim with prizes,
noisemakers, costumes, and treats. The carnival provides a wonderful
opportunity to don costumes and dress as Queen Esther, King Ahasuerus,
Mordechai, or the wicked Haman. There will be groggers to spin, rides to
enjoy, games, crafts, face painting, raffles and Hamentashan to eat.
Chocolate
Seder/JellyBean Children’s Concert
Sunday, March 29 at 1:15 p.m.
Fee: $35 per
family $10 individual includes concert
A mock Seder celebrated
in chocolate! Parsley magically transforms into green M&Ms, the bitter
herbs are replaced by Baker’s chocolate, and the wine tastes as sweet as
chocolate milk. Many wonderful transformations take place at this unique
Passover celebration.
Families learn about
Passover, its traditions and songs, read the Haggadah, ask the four
questions, and enjoy a decadently delightful menu of chocolate,
chocolate and more chocolate! (Substitutes available.)
Adult Education
Jewish
Meditation
RSVP by October 15.
“Renew the soul and
your perspective of daily life will completely change. It is simply a
matter of taking time, slowing down, shifting mundane consciousness into
a realm of higher insight and giving yourself the gift of reflection and
contemplation.” -- Rabbi David Cooper, The
Handbook of Jewish Mediation Practices.
Participants will learn
traditional Jewish meditation practices, including Hebrew chants,
visualization, and awareness of breath to deepen connections to each
other, the One, and ourselves. No prior meditation experience is
required.
This program is
sponsored by Westchester Jewish Community Services Partners in Caring
and a generous grant from UJA-Federation of New York.
Instructor: Ruth
Rosenblum, LCSW, psychotherapist and focusing trainer
Mondays, 7:45 p.m.
November 3, 10, 17
Fee: $20, JCC
member $15
Textual
Study of the Book of Genesis
RSVP by October 25.
Look into the first book
of the Torah and participate in unraveling the meanings and sources of
the text.
Instructors:
Gateways Educational Organization
Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.
November 11 and 18
Fee: $18
The
Israel Series
RSVP by December 15.
The Promised Land has
long been at the center of controversy and discussion. Claimed by Jews,
Muslims, and Christians, it has evoked hatred and love. This course will
research the questions: Whose Land is it Anyway? Seeds of Conflict,
Jerusalem -The Eye of the Universe.
Instructors: Gateway
Educational Organization
Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.
January 6, 13 20
Fee: $25
Passover
Meditation in preparation for Sinai
RSVP by February 15.
The Haggadah, a story of
the journey towards liberation, can be read and understood on many
levels. As Dr. Estelle Frankel writes in Sacred Therapy, “Jewish
mystics saw Mitrazyim (Egypt) not only as a geographical place but as a
symbol of constricted consciousness.” Through text study and Jewish
meditative practices, participants will embark on their own personal
journey towards inner liberation.
This program is
sponsored by Westchester Jewish Community Services Partners in Caring
and a generous grant from UJA-Federation of New York.
Instructor: Ruth
Rosenblum, LCSW, psychotherapist and focusing trainer
Mondays, 7:45 p.m.
March 16, 23, 30
Fee: $20, JCC
member $15
Rivertowns Jewish Consortium
Information
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.
Mayim Film Series
The Many Faces of
Jews
Wednesdays, November 5, 12, 19
7:30 p.m.
Greenburgh Hebrew Center, 515 Broadway,
Dobbs Ferry, New York
Series: $30, Individual film: $12
Pre-registration required.
“Toots”
Directed by Kristi Jacobson
Wednesday, November 5
“Toots”
charts with unabashed affection its subject's rise
from Jewish discrimination as a kid in South
Philly to magnetic celebrity and close friend
to Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra, Joe Dimagio, and Frank Gifford. The
movie is a snapshot of a particular post-prohibition, post-WWII
period in which looking glamorous and having fun were the prime
objectives. It is a portrait of a self-made man who defined the era.
Facilitator:
Rabbi Barry Kenter, Greenburgh
Hebrew Center
“My Mexican Shiva”
Directed by Alejandro Springall,
produced by John Sayles with a score by the Klezmatics.
Wednesday, November
12
A wacky look at Moishe’s life begins
with his death and proceeds through five days of shiva. Not only do we
learn tightly held secrets about the family patriarch, we see his
extended family in action with all their glorious dysfunction. As if
that’s not enough, two Hasidic ghosts appear throughout taking notes to
decide whether Moishe goes to the afterlife with the good angel or the
bad one!
Facilitator: Dr. Boris
Rubinstein, Rosh Pinah Chauvrah
“Yiddish Theater: A Love Story”
Directed by Dan
Katzir
Wednesday, November 19
This documentary is
about Zypora Spaisman, an amazing woman who helped keep the Yiddish
Theater alive in America. She was associated with the Folksbiene and
then started her own company called The Yiddish Public. This is a
heartwarming story of woman’s struggle to keep her heritage and herself
relevant. The film has rare interviews with some of the key players in
the Yiddish Theater world; among
them Shifra Lerer, Felix Fibich, Seymour Rechzeit, Zalmen Mlotek, and
scholars Dovid Katz and Nahma Sandrow.
Facilitator:
Rabbi David Holtz, Temple Beth Abraham
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
Israel Connections
A
Jewish Mosaic seen through the eyes of Westchester and Jerusalem.
Continuing with our
“twinning” project, a group of Westchester and Israeli educators will
attend an educational conference in Israel. Working together to promote
and expand their vision for a Jewish community, teams of educators will
collaborate throughout the year to formulate innovative programming, and
develop a classroom curriculum fostering individual styles, while
maintaining the commonalities inherent in Judaism. The goal is to bring
the Jerusalem and Westchester communities closer to each other, to
create a Jewish Mosaic.
This is the eighth
year the JCC on the Hudson will partner with the JCC of Mid-Westchester
in Scarsdale and Ginot Ha’ir in Jerusalem. This Jewish Mosaic
project has enabled us to form close working associations with
Congregation Shaarei Tikvah of Scarsdale, Congregation Sons of Israel of
Briarcliff, Temple Beth Abraham of Tarrytown, Woodlands Community Temple
of White Plains, and Solomon
Schechter High School in Hartsdale
whose teachers have brought the spirit of
Israel in
to their
Westchester classrooms. In addition, we have all benefited from working
with the Board of Jewish Education, Westchester Center.
We gratefully
acknowledge the continued funding through a generous grant from UJA-Federation
of New York and the Jewish Agency for Israel.
Me’ah
is a unique in depth two-year Jewish
learning experience presented in partnership with Hebrew College of
Boston. The course work covers the Biblical, Rabbinic, Medieval and
Modern periods of Jewish history and is taught by experts in the
specific course work. Scholars from all walks of Jewish education
participate. Special syllabi are provided and reading is required.
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