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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:
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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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