inDEPENDENCE

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:

• Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union
• Healthy Community Healthy Youth of Livingston NJ
• Livingston Municipal Alliance Committee
• The Partnership for Jewish Learning and Life

Generously funded by:

• Goldstein Family
• Health and Healing Center Endowment

For more information, please call Roni Turner at 973-530-3521 (rturner@jccmetrowest.org)

Check out this Flyer for more details.

Scholar In Residence Weekend: Israel at 60: Origins and Aspirations with Dr. Kenneth Stein

Adath Shalom Synagogue Proudly presents:

Scholar In Residence Weekend
Israel at 60: Origins and Aspirations
with Dr. Kenneth Stein

Friday, February 8 – Saturday, February 9, 2008

Friday, February 8
7:30pm Shabbat Services
Lech-Lecha to Balfour: Zion and Zionism to 1917

What made the Jews a people and shaped their identity before returning to Eretz Yisrael in the late 19th century?
(Followed by an elaborate Oneg.)

Saturday, February 9
9:00 am Shabbat Services
Balfour to Ben Gurion and Begin, 1917-1967

For sixty years Zionists learned to take control over their own destiny– thirty years in creating the infrastructure for a state and thirty years until an Arab leader recognized Zionism as a reality. How did a diverse group of immigrants acquire political and physical power?
(Followed by an extended Kiddush Luncheon and Question and Answer Session.)

Saturday, February 9
Afternoon 4:30 pm
Israel and the Middle East Since 1967…1967 to the Present

Looking back forty years, how did the June 1967 war change the face of Israel’s future? Where are we in the ultimate quest for Zionist acceptance and recognition? How has Israel changed the face of the Middle East and altered American Jewish identity? Where does Israel sit as a strategic priority in American foreign policy?
(Tea & Pastries followed by Havdalah)

Adath Shalom – 841 Mountain Way – Morris Plains, NJ 07950

College and High School students free of charge.
RSVP to synagogue office – (973)539-4440.

Click here to download a flyer for Dr. Kenneth Stein at Adath Shalom 

The Jewish Americans

Starting this Wednesday, and for the next three weeks, PBS will air a miniseries called “The Jewish Americans.”  This six hour miniseries will give an overview of the history of Jewish life in America for the past 353 years.  I think this would make for great family viewing.  So grab your parents, or grab you kids, and have a seat in front of the TV for a few nights of Jewish learning.

In the New York/New Jersey area, the show will air on channel 13 at 9:00PM on Wednesdays, January 9, 16 and 23, 2008.

For more information:

• PBS: The Jewish Americans
• Jews By Choice, a review from the Jerusalem Post.
• As All-American as the Matzo Ball, a review from the New York Times.
• The Power Of A Hyphen, a review from the New York Jewish Week.
• Can Secularism Save Judaism?  By Jonathan Sarna, in Newsweek.
• When Is a Heeb a Heeb? By David Deutsch, in The Forward. (Response to Sarna)

June 10, 2007: MetroWest Yom Yerushalayim Celebration

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.

“Israel Lights Up Our Lives” – MetroWest at the Salute To Israel Parade

The United Jewish Communities of MetroWest, NJ will be marching in The Salute To Israel Parade on Sunday, May 6, 2007.  All the MetroWest groups will meet on 54th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues at 1:15PM on Sunday, May 6th 2007 in New York City. 

There are a number of groups organizing busses into New York.  Contact the synagogue nearest you for more details:

• Congregation B’nai Israel, Millburn (Janice Colmar, 973-379-1134)
• Congregation Agudath Israel (Susan Werk, 973-226-3600)
• Oheb Shalom Congregation (973-762-7067)
• Temple Sha’arey Shalom (Cantor Amy Daniels, 973-379-5387)
• Temple B’nai Abraham (973-994-2290)
• Temple Ner Tamid (Iris Schwartz, 973-338-1500)
• Morristown Jewish Center Beit Yisrael (Mia, 973-538-9292)

 Students of Central Hebrew High School, and their families should either contact Sue Pearlman, or rsvp via facebook to the event called “Central Hebrew High at the Salute to Israel Parade.”

Central Hebrew High will have following schedule for May 6th only at the Essex County Campus:
10:30AM: All Essex County Students arrive for the day.
10:30AM- 11:15AM: School wide program on Israel in the Beit Midrash.
11:15AM-11:45AM Bagel Break
11:45AM-12:00PM All Essex County students and staff board bus for trip to New York.

We will return to the Essex County Campus at approximately 6:00PM.

Middle School Parent-Child Trip to Israel: June 14-21, 2007

Though time is short, I am writing to tell you about a unique and exciting program, the Neve Shalom “Encounters,” a program sponsored by United Jewish Communities-Metrowest NJ, its educational partners in Shaar Ha-Negev, Israel and the Palestinian Center for Alternative Solutions, run by Nedal Jayousi. These Encounters have been extremely successful in engaging Israeli and Palestinian high school students around four democratic principles: pluralism and tolerance; equality; rule of law; and civic engagement. This will be the first middle school “Encounter,” bringing together four Israeli middle school students and their parents, four Palestinian middle school students and their parents, and four US middle school students and their parents.

For more information, please contact Carol Barash (973-568-8210), Jed Barash (201-463-5689) or Amy Cantor at UJC MetroWest 973-929-3008; acantor@ujcnj.org) for more information.

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