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June 2019
Challah Bake
Join us for a very special Challah Bake program for children ages 12-36 months and their adult people! We will make our own dough and then be able to take it home to bake for Shabbat dinner! Come sing Shabbat songs, hear stories, and make your very own challah! RSVP Required. FREE to the Community – pre-registration required so that everyone can bring home their own challah! To register, contact Sharon Diamondstein at sdiamondstein@thejewishcenter.org
Find out more »Tikkun Leyl Shavuot 5779 at TJC
WARNING: Torah Learning is contagious and can cause an excited condition known as “Saturday Night Fever.” The following remedies are known to help: - Absorb wisdom in stimulating Workshops - Attend engaging Speed Learning Sessions - Expose self to a terrific TED-Style Torah Talk These remedies must be taken with food. Snacks provided beforehand, delectable desserts later. WORKSHOP LEADERS Rabbi Elisa Goldberg Harold Heft Fran Lees Juliana Ochs Dweck Cantor Jeff Warschauer Froma Zeitlin And More... SPEED LEARNINE PRESENTERS Meta…
Find out more »Tikkun Leil Shavuot
Join us this Saturday, June 8 for learning sessions with over 15 topics to choose from.
Find out more »A Night of Learning
Temple Beth O’r/Beth Torah, Clark, 8 p.m. Tikkun Leil Shavuot program with cheesecake and Torah study. RSVP to 732-381-8403, ext. 12.
Find out more »All-night Shavuot Study Session
Chabad Educational Center, Rockaway, 10:45 p.m. Refreshments will be served throughout the night. Call 973-625-1525, ext. 202, or visit OneTorahWay.org/Shavuot.
Find out more »JEWISH CHILDREN’S ICE CREAM SHAVUOT TORAH RALLY IN HIGHLAND PARK
B"H The entire community is cordially invited to the Annual Jewish Children's Ice Cream Torah Rally celebrating the Jewish Holiday of Shavuot - the Giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai some 3,300 years ago! Hear the 10 Commandments! Enjoy Ice Cream (Dairy and Pareve) and Cheesecake! See a Torah Magic Show! Hear Jewish Holiday Stories and Sing Mitzvah Songs! Everyone - women, men, teens, boys, girls, toddlers, even infants - can do a mitzvah by coming to Shul and…
Find out more »2nd International Conference on Addiction and Psychiatry
Addiction 2019 invites Speakers, Researchers, Exhibitors, and Sponsors from everywhere throughout the world to join the conference which will be held June 10-11, 2019, Helsinki, Finland. Addiction 2019 is an International Conference which unites researchers, youthful analysts, students and making the Congress an ideal stage to share encounters, pick up and assess rising advancements in Addiction medicine, Addiction Research and Therapy over the globe. Participating in this conference will be a good opportunity to meet personalities in the field of…
Find out more »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 »Trenton’s Jews
Historian and educator Arthur L. Finkle will present “The Jews of Trenton” at a program of the Jewish Historical Society of Central Jersey’s American Jewish Experience Lecture Series on Tuesday, June 11, at 10 a.m. at Jewish Family Services, Monroe Township. The lecture will be repeated on Wednesday, June 19, at 10:30 a.m. at Highland Park Conservative Temple-Congregation Anshe Emeth. Both lectures are open to the public. A $2 donation is requested at the door. Contact 732-249-4894 or INFO.JHSCJ@gmail.com.
Find out more »“God Is Imperfect … and So Are We!”
Series led by Rabbi Mark Biller and sponsored by National Council of Jewish Women’s West Morris Section, noon at Morris County Library, Whippany. Continues June 11 and 18. RSVP to iadpr@aol.com.
Find out more »Back in time
Raritan Valley Hadassah will present a Trip in Time, back to 1901, on Wednesday, June 12, with a guided tour of a Lower East Side synagogue; bus tour of historic East Broadway; visit to a shtiebel, a one-room house of prayer; visit to the Center for Jewish History; and stops at various shops. Kosher box lunches will be served. Cost is $109; includes lunch and gratuities. RSVP to Elaine Rand Fromkin at Memajules1@gmail.com.
Find out more »Dreyfus on trial
“The Dreyfus Affair: One of the Top Ten Trials in History” will be presented by Brandeis National Committee’s Middlesex chapter on Thursday, June 13, at 1 p.m. at East Brunswick Public Library with educator Susan Addleston. Bring a can of dog or cat food for donation to an animal shelter. Contact Thelma at 732-257-4833.
Find out more »Genealogy club
The next meeting of the Genealogy Club of Central Jersey (GCCJ) will be held on Thursday, June 13, at 7 p.m. (door on parking lot side will be locked afterward) at Congregation Ahavas Achim, Highland Park. The focus of the meeting will be a workshop; send questions and/or ideas for discussion in advance to reiss@scarletmail.rutgers.edu.
Find out more »Trends in Israeli Society: The Surprising Rise of Ultra-Orthodox Feminism
Co-Sponsored by Jewish Center Women It’s 2019 in the Start-up Nation, but women struggle for suffrage, like 1919. A woman was Prime Minister, but women are forced to sit in the back of the bus. Challenges to Israel’s ‘progressive’ nature are often blamed on its rapidly growing Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) sector, an insular politically powerful minority misaligned with Israeli secular culture. Now, a brave outspoken haredi feminist movement is emerging to challenge traditional norms from within. With multiple forces and transformations…
Find out more »Hebrew Free Loan of New Jersey Hosts Myron Sugerman!
Join Hebrew Free Loan of New Jersey as we host Myron Sugerman, aka “The Last Jewish Gangster,” for a night of inspiration and lessons on the life & history of the Jewish Mob. How does a nice Jewish boy become a gangster and international outlaw? Join HFLNJ and Myron Sugerman on June 13th at Congregation Oheb Shalom to find out the answers. Myron is the author of “The Last Jewish Gangster: From Meyer to Myron” and he will personally recount…
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