Shadya
Sunday, March 30 • 12:45pm
JCC MetroWest • West Orange
Roy Westler, Director
Israel – 2005 • 52 minutes
Hebrew with English Subtitles
Post screening discussion with Adam Oded.
A spirited Israeli-Arab girl challenges her traditional Muslim lifestyle by fighting to become a World Karate Champion. Shadya’s conflict as an Israeli-Arab and an Arab woman emerges when she meets the Palestinian karate team and marries at the peak of her career.
The Partnership for Jewish Learning and Life is looking for new or slightly used digital cameras to send to our partner communities in Ofakim and Merchavim. Any camera in working order will be accepted. These cameras will be shared with 6th-12th graders in Ofakim and Merchavim. We would like to create a feeling of brotherhood between local teens from MetroWest, NJ with thier peers in Israel. Through the use of photography and the internet, they will be able to share scenes of thier lives, and find common ground with teens their own age on the other side of the world.
To get a visual tour of Ofakim, click here:
To read about the partnership between UJC of MetroWest and Ofakim and Merchavim, click here.
Tuesday, Febuary 26
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Cooperman JCC, West Orange
Free!
Ages 13 to Adult
This solo show by Jamie M. Fox is the story of a neurotic Jewish woman stuck in a dead-end job as a celebrity’s assistant, her cocaine addicted and recently incarcerated brother, and the two neurotic parents who spawned them. But it’s a comedy, a comedy with an important message about how substance abuse can affect a family. Join us for the show and a Q & A period afterward.
Co-sponsored by:
The Legow Family Israel Program Center, Central Hebrew High School and The Partnership for Jewish Learning and Life invite the MetroWest teen community to the
Israel at 60 Teen Kickoff Event
Sunday, October 28, 2007: 9:30-1:30 Free and Open to All
Learn about Israel through a series of fun games and programs:
Dig for archaeological artifacts
Build a government coalition in our Knesset session
Tour Israel on an enormous map with twists and turns on the way
Collaborate on an Israeli music video
Have a falafel!
The event will be held at the Aidekman Family Campus, 901 Route 10, Whippany, NJ 07981. The program begins at 9:30AM and ends at 1:30PM. This program is free, and open to any teen from 8th to 11th grade. If you would like to participate, please contact Rabbi Ed Prince: eprince@thepartnershipnj.org.
MetroWest Yom Yerushalayim Celebration Celebrating the Reunification of Jerusalem 1967-2007
See 25 lions on display!
The MetroWest Yom Yerushalayim Celebration will take place on Sunday, June 10, 2007. There will be a scavenger hunt at 11:00AM, and the formal program will begin at noon. The event will be held at the Cooperman JCC, 760 Northfield Avenue, West Orange, NJ.
Among the Lions on display are:
B’nai Abraham
Beth Shalom
Temple Emanu-El
AABJ&D
B’nai Shalom
B’nai Jeshurun
Temple Ner Tamid
Temple B’nai Or
Temple Sholom
JSDD
Temple Beth Ahm
Solomon Schechter Day School
Temple Beth Am
Agudath Israel
Morristown Jewish Center
This free event is sponsored by the Legow Family Israel Program Center othe UJC of MetroWest. Call 973-929-3054 for more information.
I don’t know why
I don’t know why
So many people have to die
So many families have to cry
And yet so many people still deny
If we are taught the truth and we know
Then why does the lying always seem to grow
For one type of people to hate another
Than everyone starts to hate each other
The Holocaust, Rwanda, Segregation, and now Darfur
Weapons, Allies, and too many wars
Arguments and conflicts that no one can ignore
Why doesn’t the US stop Darfur, and all of the turmoil
Because they have no money, power, or oil
And yes, I know that it’s not right
But that is what this poem is trying to fight
Now for the Holocaust, Segregation and Rwanda it is too late
So don’t make it Darfur’s fate
Hitler was a man who was a hating master
His supporters caught on faster and faster
Until he could create the biggest disaster
But the hatred did not stop at the Jews
It went on to the Gypsy’s, gay’s, anyone that they choose
They would die from starvation, guns, torture, and gas chambers
Until less than half held the remainder
After my Grandma had been tortured for years
She ran away from all of her fears
And then hate took America, the greatest country ever
Racism started, when slavery was banned forever
Just because the color of their skin wasn’t white
They had to be separated in every part of life
Then came Martin Luther King, the best of all time
Just what the African-Americans needed to find
His words flew, an angel, his meaning so deep
His speeches, a lullaby, putting slavery to sleep
He taught to use words, and not hands to fight
He found the blacks their equals and all of their right
In America all of the kids are asking, “Do I look OK?”
In Rwanda kids are asking, “Am I going to live to see another day?”
How many people have to be dead?
How many tears have to be shed?
How many cries for help do they have to send?
Before all of the massacre can come to an end?
I don’t know why
So many people have to die
So many families have to cry
And yet still so many people die
Herbert Bolimovsky 5/23/07
*This poem is dedicated to my Grandma (‘Zofta’ Dina Bolimovsky) who just recently passed-away. My Grandma is a Holocaust survivor.
Hey MetroWest teens! Do you like to take pictures? Are you going to the Salute to Israel parade this Sunday, May 6, 2007? If you answered “yes” to the previous two questions, then submit your picture for our photo contest on our flickr page:
Make sure the caption says something about the photograph and why you think it’s a good picture. (All pictures must be approved by the moderator before they go onto the page.) The best picture will get the photographer a prize of a $25 Amazon.com gift certificate. To qualify for the prize, the picture must be taken by a teen from anywhere in MetroWest, NJ, which includes Essex, Morris, Sussex and part of Union Counties.
Then call in to our talk show, this Monday, May 7, at 4:00PM to talk about the sights, sounds and smells of the Salute to Israel parade. Click here for more.
Still figuring out how you’re getting to the parade? See this post.
UJA is the fundraising arm of United Jewish Communities (UJC) of MetroWest NJ. The money raised by UJA helps support a network of local and overseas agencies that provide a broad range of social services.
UJA will pay tribute this year to the Honorable David S. and Sylvia Steiner for their community involvement in MetroWest and the surrounding area.
We are pleased to offer free tickets to any students in grades 7–12 interested in attending this event. To request your free tickets, contact the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Ticket Office at (973) 624-3713.
We will do our best to accommodate all requests. Seating is limited and tickets will be distributed on a “first come, first serve,” basis.
JCC MetroWest has registered to participate in the 2007 JCC Maccabi ArtsFest®, which will take place in Boca Raton, Florida, July 29-August 3, and in Deal, New Jersey, August 12-17. JCC MetroWest will be sending a delegation of artists to Deal, New Jersey. Deal is planning to offer computer graphics, creative writing, dance, instrumental music (classical, rock/pop or jazz), radio broadcasting, theater (acting or musical theater), visual arts and vocal music. A culminating gala performance tops off the week. Teens, entering grades 8-12 (minimum age of 13) interested in going to ArtsFest should contact Carol Berman (cberman@jccmetrowest.org or call 973-530-3421) to find out more information.
The mission of JCC Maccabi ArtsFest is to enable JCCs to reach out to a wider teen audience through the arts. ArtsFest is designed to inspire Jewish teens through a dynamic combination of workshop, performance, exhibition, competition, community service, social activities, and fun to develop their individuality through the medium of artistic expression while strengthening their bonds to their Jewish heritage, community, and Israel. The first JCC Maccabi ArtsFest held at the JCC of Greater Baltimore in 2006 was a resounding success.
Teens will enjoy home hospitality, social activities, and the opportunity to take part in Days of Caring and Sharing, a community-service project, as well as developing their artistic gifts under the direction of world class artists-in-residence.
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