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Message from the Chairman
Dear Friends,
January and February of 2009 are filled with events in the reviving Jewish community of Hudson County. If you live in the area I'd like to encourage you to attend one special one this weekend: "Hanukkah on the Hudson!", this Sunday December 28, 2-5PM at the Bayonne JCC. (Childrens activities begin at 1PM).
Now in its second year, Hanukkah on the Hudson is the first and only truly community-wide Jewish celebration in Hudson County, and it is designed specifically to connect our community--especially by introducing people who are new in the area.
From the northern tip of North Bergen, through the booming new communities of Hoboken and downtown Jersey City, to the southern tip of Bayonne, to as far west as Newark, Hanukkah on the Hudson attracts a wide variety of people -- long-time residents and newcomers, families, children and singles. Last year's attendance -- perhaps 350 people -- demonstrated conclusively that an urban Jewish revival is underway in our area.
Hanukkah on the Hudson will take place on the last night of Hanukkah: this Sunday, December 28, 2008. Light refreshments will be served and entertainment will include Jewish music and Israeli dancing. Honorees from eight local synagogues will kindle the Hanukkah lights.
Hanukkah on the Hudson will be hosted by the Bayonne JCC, 1050 Kennedy Boulevard in Bayonne. For more information call Caren at: 201-436-6900 or contact HudsonJewish Secretary Michelle Levine: Secretary@HudsonJewish.org.
Tickets are: adults $12 in advance ($15 at the door); children $8 in advance ($10 at the door). Children under 2 free. You can sign up through PayPal directly on our website at www.HudsonJewish.org.
Several other upcoming events also deserve special attention:
All of these events are community-oriented, and all are invited! More information is available on the HudsonJewish website and will be published in upcoming issues of The Jewish State.
In closing, I and the other HudsonJewish volunteers look forward to seeing you all in the coming weeks and months. If you have any questions about the community, please reach out to us at: Info@HudsonJewish.org.
Chag Sameach,
Adam S. Weiss
Chairman, HudsonJewish
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"Weequahic Memories"
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Newark's Jewish Community Remembered at the Jewish Museum of New Jersey
Like Hudson County, the urban neighborhoods of Essex County  (Newark, Irvington, East Orange, etc.) once were home to tens of thousands of Jewish residents. The Jewish Museum of New Jersey, housed at Newark's Congregation Ahavas Sholom, is showing an exhibit entitled "Weequahic Memories: Celebrating Newark's Legendary Neighborhood". The exhibit runs through February 15. For more information visit the musem's website at: www.jewishmuseumnj.org
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January - February Events
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To post your own organization's events to the HudsonJewish community calendar, email Honorary Trustee Jessica Lemmon (Jessica@HudsonJewish.org) for a username and password. Posting events is the best way to avoid scheduling conflicts and broadcast your events (and existence) to the community. Dates/times/locations may change, so check the online calendar for updates. Post by the 25th of the prior month for inclusion. We try to include selected events for the six weeks following publication, on or around the first of each month.
Monday, January 5, 7-9PM:
NCJW Dinner
Monday, January 5, 7:30-9:30: HudsonJewish Board of Trustees Meeting
Tuesday, January 6, 7-9PM:
Ohav Zedek and Bayonne
JCC Rosh Chodesh Program
Friday, January 9, Time TBD:
My Jewish Neighborhood Shabbat Dinner.
For more information contact USH:
office@hobokensynagogue.org
or 201-659-4000
Friday, January 16, 7:45 PM: 24th Annual Memorial Service for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Kabbalat Shabbat at Temple Beth-El of Jersey City. Featured
speaker will be Dr. Robert L. Johnson, Dean of the University of Medicine &
Dentistry of New Jersey,
a noted author, physician and lecturer.
Many people will remember last year's speaker, State Senator Sandra
Cunningham. This Shabbat event is an
excellent opportunity to build bridges throughout the local community.
Saturday night, January 24: Following a brief Havdalah service, Temple Beth-El will host a Jazz Jam, featuring "The Larry Banks Trio", led by noted local musician Larry Banks. Says Beth-El Board member (and HudsonJewish
volunteer) Joshua Parkhurst, "People don't realize how many prominent
musicians live in Jersey City, and Beth-El is pleased to showcase them for the whole
community." If you have not visited
Beth-El's magnificent sanctuary on Kennedy
Boulevard just north of Communipaw, this event
would be an ideal occasion to do so, and to meet the welcoming congregation led by Rabbi Kenneth Brickman.
Sunday, January 25, 10:30AM: USH Sunday Brunch Winter
Culture Series. A conversation with
Peter Godwin about When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, his recent best
seller. Following his father's heart attack, the author returns to Zimbabwe, where
he grew up. While exploring the terror and personal costs of living under the
repressive Mugabe regime, he uncovers his father's hidden story as a Polish Jew
in Europe during the rise of Hitler.
Tuesday, February 3, 7-9PM:
Ohav Zedek and BJCC Rosh Chodesh Program
Saturday night, February 21, 7:30-11PM. "The Duprees". The Bayonne JCC hosts this famous harmonic quartet in a special concert open to the whole community. For more information contact: Mike Flood at 201-436-6900.
Sunday, February 22, 10:30AM: Lucette Lagnado, The Man in the White
Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World,
has written a love story to her father, a man who enjoyed all the pleasures of
cosmopolitan Cairo and found them perfectly
compatible with his Orthodox routine-until the rise of Nasser.
Lagnado lovingly and honestly portrays her father's efforts to make a living
and maintain his dignity as the family moves from privilege in the Arab world
to desperation and exile in Europe and erica.
Saturday night, February 28, 8PM: USH's third annual Casino Night, at the
Hoboken Elks Club, 1005 Washington
Street.
Doors open at 7PM. Admission $70,
includes buffet, open bar and $40 in game chips. No one under 21 admitted. Incentive for early sign-up: order by Feb. 20 and get $50 in free chips; order
by Feb. 13 and get $60 in free chips; order by Jan. 16 and get $100 in free
chips. Group discount: $60 / ticket for group orders of 10 or more. Purchase by Paypal
or credit card at www.ushcasinonight.info or call 201-659-0150 or email casinonight@hobokensynagogue.org |
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