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December 2018
Mercer County Jewish Genealogy Society at Beth El Synagogue December Meeting
On Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 7:30 pm, the Beth El Synagogue of East Windsor, Mercer County Genealogy Society presents ‘Skeletons in Your Genealogy Closet’. Sometimes, when digging through documents and records, you may unearth sensitive information. This information could range from adoptions to conversions to multiple marriages – you might even discover a criminal in your family tree! Caryn Alter and Steve Cohen will discuss potential “skeletons”, using some of their own colorful examples and genealogical tools for verifying…
Find out more »Navigating Cancer
Navigating a cancer experience or living with a chronic disease can be debilitating and challenging. Often we feel greater stress, fatigue, anxiety and, more importantly, we feel alone. We are offering the four workshops designed as stand-alone topics but they are collectively integrated. Join us and learn tools and strategies to create a better survivorship program and come meet others with similar experiences. This course is taught by Wendy Van Besien.
Find out more »Healthy eating
Registered dietician Caryn Alter will present “Healthy Eating” at a National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) membership meeting at Monmouth County Headquarters Library, Manalapan, noon-2 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
Find out more »Booked to Cook – Knocking the Socks off Kosher
Temple Shalom is hosting a series “Booked to Cook” that is open to the community. The first of three programs features Susie Fishbein. It will take place on December 19th at 7:30 pm. Susie Fishbein is an everyday cook who loves to share her passion for cooking and entertaining with friends and family. Her enthusiasm for food and entertaining led to the creation of her best-selling cookbook series, Kosher by Design. Ms. Fishbein will talk about easy recipes anyone can…
Find out more »“Throughout the Lifespan: Insights and Perspectives on Intimacy.”
A conversation with Yoetzet Halacha Nechama Price and psychotherapist Rachel Hercman. Sponsored by Mikvah Chana, the West Orange Mikvah, Congregation Ahavas Achim B’nai Jacob and David, Congregation Etz Chaim, Congregation Ohr Torah, and Synagogue of the Suburban Torah, 8:15 p.m. For location and to RSVP, email info@mikvahchana.com.
Find out more »Jews in ALL Hues
Bnai Keshet’s Kaplan Minyan, Montclair, 10:30 a.m. Jared Jackson, founder and executive director of Jews in ALL Hues, will speak about building diverse Jewish communities. Call 973-746-4889 or visit bnaikeshet.org/event/kaplanminyans.
Find out more »Social justice and the Orthodox
Rabbi Ronald Schwarzberg will present “When Did Tikun Olam Become a Jewish Value? Orthodox American Jewry’s Involvement with Social Justice” at a program of the Orthodox Jewish Forum of Edison/Highland Park on Saturday, Dec. 22, at 8 p.m. at Congregation Ahavas Achim, Highland Park. Email hpedisonorthodoxforum@gmail.com or visit orthodoxjewishforum.org.
Find out more »Jewish Pulitzer novelists
Congregation B’nai Israel, Rumson, continues its celebration of Jewish Pulitzer Prize novelists — Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, and Saul Bellow — in a series of free Sunday seminars. Needle will discuss the life and works of Bellow on Jan. 27; the series will conclude when Gail Becker presents “Personal Reflections on Norman Mailer” on Feb. 3. Coffee and bagels will be available. Call 732-842-1800.
Find out more »Lunch and learn
Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Monmouth County holds a Lunch & Learn at noon on Fridays at Freehold Jewish Center, with light discussions of Jewish and secular topics followed by a kosher lunch. The cost is $4. RSVP to Joanne at 732-774-6886, ext. 40, by the preceding Wednesday.
Find out more »January 2019
Jewish journaling
“Our Stories, Ourselves — Jewish Journaling and More,” facilitated by Michele Bernstein Klausner, director of The Journal Center, is held at the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth Country, Freehold, Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.-noon. It is based on the museum’s exhibit “Three Centuries of Growth and Change: A History of Jews in Monmouth County.” The fee is $5 per session. Call 732-252-6990 or visit jhmomc.org.
Find out more »Jewish current events
Rabbi Benjamin Adler of Adath Israel Congregation presents “Ripped from the Headlines” — through a Jewish Lens — on the first Thursday morning each month, 10:30-11:30 a.m. The informal discussion of Judaism and current events will be held in the upstairs meeting room at McCaffrey’s Market in Yardley, Pa. Upcoming sessions are Jan. 3 and Feb. 7. Participants may purchase coffee or tea at the store. A special “Shabbat Edition” of Ripped from the Headlines will take place at Kiddush…
Find out more »Second Generation Speaks Out: The Story of The Bitten Locket
Emma Glickman grew up in Livingston, New Jersey, and has been going to Congregation Agudath Israel since her Torah for Tots days. Emma will share her personal narrative of uncovering how her grandmother and great-grandmother miraculously survived the Holocaust after being hidden by Righteous Gentiles. She weaves through twists and turns of discovering how her family managed to be among the 14 survivors of the 1,600 Jews that lived in their Polish town. The presentation includes an 8-minute documentary trailer…
Find out more »The Book of Legends
Join Rabbi Adena Blum for this first of two Sunday morning study class. The Hebrew poet Hayim Nahman Bialik and the renowned editor Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky selected hundreds of texts from the Talmud and midrashic literature and arranged them thematically, in order to provide their contemporaries with easy access to the national literary heritage of the Jewish people -- the texts of Rabbinic Judaism that remain at the heart of Jewish literacy today. Bialik and Ravnitzky chose Aggadah -- the…
Find out more »Holocaust resistance series
Lola Kline, niece of the three brothers who led the Bielski partisan group during World War II, will kick off a three-part series on Holocaust resistance at 11:15 a.m. at Congregation B’nai Israel, Rumson. In the first part, Kline will speak of her experiences and describe partisan resistance to the Nazis. Program moderators are Jane Denny, adjunct professor at Stockton University and former director of education at the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights, and Genocide Education (Chhange) at Brookdale Community…
Find out more »Holocaust Remembrance and Education Program
Sponsored by Jewish Congregation of Kinnelon, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at Bloomingdale Senior Center. Program includes a Holocaust survivor’s story, film, and deli lunch. Cost is $5. RSVP to jckinformation@gmail.com by Jan. 3; for questions, contact julietb.yachad@gmail.com.
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