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Shabbat Service Schedule
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April 4: 7:30PM Shabbat Services-Torah Study: The Hagaddah and Exodus Story - Why do we keep telling this story?
April 11: 7:00PM Sabbat Family
Services with 6th grade-Israel
April 12: 10:00AM Shabbat Services and Jazzy Parliyan becomes a Bat Mitzvah
April 18: 7:00PM Shabbat Experience
April 25: 7:30PM Shabbat Services & Yom HaShoah observance
May 3: 10:00AM Shabbat Services and Mitch Sarinick becomes a Bar Mitzvah.
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Kup O' Joe
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Caffeinated Conversations  ....with Rabbi Forman.
Join Rabbi Forman on selected Sunday mornings at 9AM for a lively conversation on a wide variety of topics: US and Israel politics, theology, Jewish practice, sacred texts and more.
Feel free to suggest a topic for a future gathering.
Coffee and refreshments always served.
9AM on Sundays
April 13
May 4
*Kup is Yiddush for Head/Mind
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In Our Community
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Refuah Sh'leima (Get well) to...
Susan Blaicher
Fred Bernstein
Millie Albert
Estelle Breines
Jim Schettino
Bill Willey
Condolences to
...Faith Fuhrman and Ben Atkinson on the death of Faith's father, Donald Leigh Corey
In order to help us be a more caring community, please share your lifecycle events with Rabbi Forman.
Feel free to click on a hyperlink to send a note and let someone know you are thinking about them.
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Upcoming Yahrzeits
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May the memories of the following individuals be for a blessing:
April 4
Maude Albert
grandmother of Steve Albert
Norman Halper
father of Ruby Halper-Erkkila
Albert Sperber
father of Eileen Berkelhammer
April 11
Katherine Crawford
mother-in-law of Ruth Crawford
Richard Landman
father of Michele Korfin
Sarah H. Levin
mother of Ellen Pytlar
Bernice Sherman
mother of Louis Speizer
Stanford Bernard Speizer
father of Louis Speizer
Sadie Sperber
mother of Eileen Berkelhammer
April 18
Ralph Amodio
uncle of Leslie Hann
Edwin Loewy
father of Susan Ingram
grandfather of Andrea Harvey
Joseph Sacks
grandfather of Jodi Brodsky
Helen Topf
mother of Alice Schwade
Evelyn Zwerling
mother of Eric Zwerling
April 25
Doris Lerman
loved one of Isabel Mahalick
Ruth Moutner
aunt of David Moutner
Sheldon Rotter
father of Naomi Zwerling
Sidney Stein
grandfather of Stephanie Kassanoff
Sheldon Weinick
father of Ross Weinick
Rose Weinstein
loved one of Isabel Mahalick
May 5
David Abrams
father of Larry Abrams
Esther Adelman
grandmother of Laura Senator
Louis Brodsky
grandfather of Gary Brodsky
Lillian Golden
grandmother of Beth Golden
Robert Hann
father of Chris Hann
Kate Hirsch
great-grandmother of Betsy Zalaznick
Ellen Sabio
mother of Steven Albrecht
Deborah Schwartz
loved one of Shelly Weller
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| Thank You from Our Emeritus Rabbi Steinbrink | | |
Dear Or Chadash Members:
As usual, your Purim gifts are a harbinger of Spring, coming as they do after so much snow, ice, and cold. We appreciate your thoughtfulness and thank you.
With best wishes for a sweet Pesach,
Rabbi Richard and Diane Steinbrink
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Thanks to all who contributed to our Mishloach Manot Purim fundraiser
Larry & Beatrice Abrams
Steve & Susan Albert
Steven & Susan Albrecht
Neil & Nancy Altshuler
Ben Atkinson & Faith Fuhrman
Ken Becker & Sharon Bobnar-Becker
Alan & Sheila Beckman
Paul Beers
Adam & Audrey Belkin
Paul & Elyse Belkin
Jeff & Christine Berg
Kurt & Susan Blaicher
Tim & Miriam Blanke
Ray Blumfeld & Audrey Hackel
Jon & Lori Blutfield
Ira & Estelle Breines
Scott & Maryann Breslow
Gary & Jodi Brodsky
Carl Christensen & Deborah Beer-Christensen
Brian & Carol Coriell
George Eckelmann & Jane Engel
Craig Erkkila & Ruby Halper-Erkkila
Brian & Stephanie Fletcher
Rabbi Joseph M. Forman
Phillip & Carrie Freed
John & Maria Gendelman
Harvey Gold
Robert & Juli Goldstein
John Graybeal & Laura Senator
Steve & Sage Grumbach
Chris & Leslie Hann
Phillip & Andrea Harvey
Alan Hecht & Maria Jose De La Hoz
Evelyn Hersch
Mark & Jessica Hodkinson
Pierce & Stacey Hubbard
Susan Ingram
John Langer & Annette Ivry
Gerald Jones & Karen Tovi-Jones
Craig & Sudha Kantor
Estelle Katcher
Andy & Michele Korfin
Jack Kurlansik
Robert & Susan Lazar
Perry & Cindy Lehrer
Barry & Alison Levine
Robert & Shirl Levy
David & Robin Lewy
Elizabeth Lewy
Jim & Mary Clare Lewy
Edward & Cheryl Lifshitz
Darren & Elizabeth Loew
Matthew & Amy MacIsaac
David & Isabel Mahalick
Alan Marrus
Vadik & Kate Metelitsa
David Moscowitz & Courtney Boyd-Moscowitz
David & Katherine Moutner
David & Rita Orlans
Stuart Oxenhorn & Robin Schutz
Nisim & Alexa Parliyan
Darren & Yulia Pincus
Stephen & Diana Propper
Ellen Pytlar
David & Randi Roberts
Jeffrey & Ellen Rosen
Rick & Jill Rosenthal
Joseph & Carolyn Sansevere
John & Toby Sarinick
Don & Sara Schenker
Aaron Schwartz
David & Allison Shreiber
Stephen Sinoway & Beth Golden
Victor Sloan & Sandra Gong
Louis & Caryn Speizer
Andrew & Jane Stein
Mike & Lisa Tauscher
Chris & Melissa Tiber
Marc & Caryn Tomljanovich
David & Kimberly Turner
Edward Tyler & Renee Trambert
Glenn & Eve Wasserman
Paul & Meredith Weil
Paul & Andrea Weinberg
Paul & Maureen Weiner
Ross & Susan Weinick
Gary & Debbie Weiss
Richard Willey & Meridith Sigel-Willey
Mark & Kristina Witzling
Bruce & Betsy Zalaznick
Donna Zubek
Eric & Naomi Zwerling
Victor Sloan & Sandra Gong
Ken & Cindy Stoter: In Memory Of Simmy Horowitz
Educational Enrichment Fund
Darren & Elizabeth Loew: In Memory Of David Myeroff
Darren & Elizabeth Loew: Thanks to Betsy Zalaznick In Honor Of Sarah's Bat Mitzvah
Darren & Elizabeth Loew: Thanks to Liz Tracey In Honor Of Sarah's Bat Mitzvah
Bruce & Betsy Zalaznick: In Memory Of David C. Myeroff
Bruce & Betsy Zalaznick: In Memory Of Donald Leigh Corey
Bruce & Betsy Zalaznick: In Honor Of the birth of Sierra Ruth Pincus
Bruce & Betsy Zalaznick: In Memory Of Albert Goldstein
Bruce & Betsy Zalaznick: In Memory Of Barbara VanDeventer
Steven Garfield
Nelson and Beverly Kornstein
G. Kulp Music Fund
Adam & Audrey Belkin: In Memory Of Joseph Grooper
Darren & Elizabeth Loew: Thanks to Kathy Gohr In Honor Of Sarah's Bat Mitzvah
Don & Sarah Schenker: Oneg
Rabbi's Discretionary Fund
Allen & Salena Kern: Eric Erkkila Project
Darren & Elizabeth Loew: Thanks to Rabbi Forman In Honor Of Sarah's Bat Mitzvah
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| Scrip News | |
Since Or Chadash joined the scrip program in January, we have had 20 families sign up, and those families' orders for this three-month period have earned Or Chadash $644.65! Thank you!
We are off to a great start, but we need you to participate, too! The potential for easy earnings for Or Chadash is huge. Come give it a try!
Click here for the scrip FAQs sheet, and you'll be on your way to making a great contribution to your temple!
Any questions, contact Christine Berg at cberg3@comcast.net. Thank you!
We would like to thank these families for joining the Scrip program and earning the Congregation some easy money:
Steven & Susan Albrecht
Jeff & Christine Berg
Rabbi Joseph Forman
Chris & Leslie Hann
George Eckelmann & Jane Engel
Nisim & Alexa Parliyan
Marc & Caryn Tomljanovich
Gerald Jones & Karen Tovi-Jones
Glenn & Eve Wasserman
Gary & Debbie Weiss
Bruce & Betsy Zalaznick
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| Jewish Family Services | | |
JFS is a non-profit, non-sectarian social service agency whose mission is to preserve and strengthen the quality of individual, family and community life based on Jewish values. We provide our services to a diverse socio-economic client population that includes individuals, children, young adults, families and the elderly.
Click here for information on additional services.
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| Meals On Wheels | |
Meals on Wheels needs volunteer drivers in our area. Serve your homebound senior neighbors a hot noontime meal. The commitment to drive is only once a month. It will take only an hour or two once a month to get that good feeling of giving. Call our office at (908)284-0735 to offer your time or for more information (and/or check out our website at mowih.org). Help us, help others. Many thanks.
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Rabbi's Message
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The Australian poet and writer (and, surprisingly, economics professor) David Curzon has written several collections of modern poems on Biblical themes. As we approach the Passover holiday and consider the enduring impact our story of the Exodus has had on countless generations, it is fitting that we remember as well the Mitzvah found in the Hagaddah: It is incumbent upon each of us to rise from the Seder table having experienced a sense of redemption from Egyptian bondage in our own day.
Redemption has indeed come to the Jewish community in many subsequent generations. And the story has resonated within American history during slavery and the Civil Rights movement, and within communities across the globe as peoples have fought for freedom.
Ironically, it is the Egyptians of today who are fighting for that treasured freedom. Here is Curzon's poem At The Sea of Reeds. He reminds us that miracles are still happening whenever we achieve what seems impossible. May your Passover be filled with miracles and may you each be redeemed from the tyranny of whatever enslaves you.
At The Sea of Reeds - David Curzon
It is said:
In each generation we exodus from Egypt,
reach the Sea of Reeds, look back in fear,
and protest to whoever led us there:
Why bring us to this desert just to die!
We'll kill ourselves by drowning in the sea!
We'll return to slavery and escape annihilation! We'll fight the forces of enslavement unaided! We'll shout, frighten them with noise!
But that generation - so goes another midrash - stopped their complaint against circumstance and entered those waters up to their toes,
up to their ankles, up to their knees
up to their lips, up to their nostrils,
and only then did the miracle occur.
Chag Pesach Sameach v'Shalom,
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President's Message
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This morning, there was finally the slightest hint of spring in the air when I went outside to head to work. The snow piles are finally gone, the page has turned to April, and the kids are counting down the weeks until school ends. I hope you are all enjoying the sunshine.
On the Jewish calendar, it means that suddenly (at least it feels sudden to me) Passover is just around the corner. As a kid, Passover meant the chance to eat all those foods that we only pulled out once a year and revel in my family coming together. My sister and I turned charoset making into our own yearly tradition that, as we got older involved more wine and fewer apples. When we moved into our own homes and weren't always together on Passover, the charoset was good but never tasted quite the same.
Our seder table was never small. My mom had the habit of inviting "orphans" as we called them; friends, neighbors and coworkers with no close by family who were always welcomed at our table. They joined in the tradition, and chaos, of our somewhat rowdy seders. My dad tried to maintain order (after all isn't that what a seder is all about?) and inject some learning with his self-named "Matzah Moments." We made it through the entire thing every year, and, as our families grew to include spouses, kids and new friends, our traditions endured. We still act out the plagues (rubber frogs anyone?), joke about the quality of the Manischevitz wine, sing in our off key voices and finish with a hearty "Next Year in Jerusalem." It is an exhausting and exhilarating holiday.
Whatever your traditions are, I hope you have the opportunity to embrace the spring and the opportunities for fresh starts and new beginnings. Join us at our congregational seder and mark your calendar for Mitzvah Day; an Or Chadash tradition that is a great way to come together as a community and really make a difference.
If you haven't already, sign up for Scrip. It is a great, low effort way to raise money for Or Chadash. If you grocery shop, put gas in your car, eat out or go to the movies, there is a scrip retailer for you! Our scrip coordinator, Christine Berg, will be happy to answer any questions you might have.
I hope to see many of you at our congregational Passover seder; I'll bring the frogs. Happy Spring!
Shalom! Caryn
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I'm sure that I am not the only one who is
 more than ready for Spring to finally arrive! I recently had the opportunity to spend three days in Miami and was less than thrilled to return home to a dusting of snow on the ground. I was in Florida attending a conference sponsored by an organization called "Kavod v'nichum," which means "honor and comfort." This organization provides education, networking and training for Chevrah Kadisha communities around the world. The Chevrah Kadisha, or sacred society, is a group of dedicated individuals who prepared Jewish bodies for burial. This tradition, called tahara, has survived for centuries and although the ritual may vary from community to community, the central practice remains the same. The body is gently washed, dressed and placed in the coffin by members of this community. Utmost respect is maintained for the modesty of the deceased as preparations are completed, and as the body is dressed in linen garments emulating the garb of the high priest, specific prayers are recited to assist the soul on its journey into the next world. In some communities the body is also watched over until burial, a practice called shmira. Individuals remain with the deceased around the clock until it is safely placed in the earth. We speak of this mitzvah on Shabbat when we read," Eilu d'varim she-ein lahem shiur," "These are the things for which there is no fixed measure, whose fruits we enjoy in this world, while the full reward remains in the world to come." This statement is followed by a list of mitzvot, one of which is accompanying the dead for burial. While this can mean many things to many people, this has been historically observed by our community by taking responsibility for the caring of our dead from the time of death to the filling of the grave. As Jews we have never denied death, and the performance of this mitzvah is one of the ways in which we pay our last respects to those who have gone before us. I am honored to serve on the chevrah kadisha in Allentown where I live, blessed to be a part of this holy work. I am somehow comforted by the fact that upon my death there will be others who will provide the same level of care to my remains. Some have said that taharah is one of the highest mitzvot that we can perform, since there is no way that the dead can repay us. But I would suggest that the sacred opportunity to accompany them to their final resting place is far more than sufficient. |
| Betsy's Message | |  Happy New Year!
No, this is not a Purim joke. The Hebrew month of Nisan - in which spring begins - is actually considered the first month of the Jewish calendar. So it is only a bit of a stretch to say that Nisan, which begins this year on April 1, 2014, is equivalent to the secular calendar day of January 1, 2014. New Years are times for making resolutions and considering what is really important to us.
As you know, this past academic year many of our programs addressed the important yet difficult conversations we have with family members about end of life plans. Rabbi Forman's Rosh Hashanah morning sermon "Before We Die," Katie Rosman's September book talk, If You Knew Suzy: A Mother, A Daughter, A Reporter's Notebook, and Lee Coopersmith's November discussion about "The Conversation Project" are tools and techniques to encourage a dialogue with our loved ones.
These are not easy things to do, but they are ever so important.
Roz Chast's upcoming memoir, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? takes on the story of her aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents.
When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial, avoidance, and distraction. But when Elizabeth Chast climbed a ladder to locate an old souvenir from the "crazy closet" - with predictable results - the tools that had served Roz well through her parents' seventies, eighties, and into their early nineties could no longer be deployed.
While the particulars are Chast-ian in their idiosyncrasies - an anxious father who had relied heavily on his wife for stability as he slipped into dementia and a former assistant principal mother whose overbearing personality had sidelined Roz for decades - the themes are universal: adult children accepting a parental role; aging and unstable parents leaving a family home for an institution; dealing with uncomfortable physical intimacies; managing logistics; and hiring strangers to provide the most personal care.
Can We Talk about Something More Pleasant, due to be released in mid-May, will show the full range of Roz Chast's talent as cartoonist and storyteller. If you cannot wait for the book's release, the March 10, 2014 issue of The New Yorker featured 13 pages of Chast's graphic cartoon/writings. Here is the link to The New Yorker article. John Koten's recent article in the Wall Street Journal (below) sheds yet another perspective on this issue. With 100 boxes of his Dad's personal history to sort through, it might take him years to discover if his Dad should be credited with creating the * (star) and the # (hashtag) symbols on the telephone. How ironic that his Dad, a corporate communications specialist for AT&T chose not to have End of Life discussions with his son. Behind Two Symbols on a Telephone Keypad: John Koten investigates the story behind the hashtag and the star keys on the telephone By JOHN KOTEN Whose idea was it to put the * and the # on the touch tone telephone? It might not be the most urgent issue of our time but it matters a lot to me because I grew up believing that the man responsible for this tiny detail of modern life was my father. I never actually gave the matter much thought until recently, when it fell upon me to write my dad's obituary. He was 84 when he died, yet his passing was a shock because he had almost convinced everyone in my family that he was going to make it to 100 and beyond. In recent years, he had bounced back from both a horrific head-on car crash and a stroke that was severe enough for me to summon the family to his bedside because the end appeared near. Yet, as recently as Dec. 30, my dad was well enough to attend a Chicago Blackhawks game and was ready for another one. My dad certainly didn't see his own death coming and would be greatly shocked to learn of it if he were still alive. I know it is crazy for any of us to think we can cheat death, but I do not in any way hold it against him. It was just part of who he was. But his refusal to accept mortality would complicate things for the family. My mother, brother, sister and I all would have liked to carry out dad's wishes for a funeral and memorial service, but he never told us what he wanted. He wouldn't discuss the subject. By some minor miracle, the family was able to convince Dad to secure a burial plot-in part by saying that it would be used by the whole family. Other decisions required pure conjecture. Some were hard (coffin open or closed?). Some were easy. They all seemed to rush by in a blur of unreality. My brother and I picked mahogany for the casket, for example, because wooden sailboats are often made of mahogany, and my father loved sailing. But we didn't agree on everything, and in a time as stressful as one like this can be, even small details can ignite deep feelings. I suppose it could be argued that funerals are ceremonies for those left behind and so the survivors should be the ones to grapple with the choices. I also suppose that working through some of these issues may be just another part of the mourning process. But I still wish my dad hadn't been so reticent on the topic so we could have been sure to honor him exactly as he would have liked. I also wished he had left behind a more concise biography than the collection of over 100 boxes of work papers from his AT&T career, from board meetings at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Great Books Foundation, and from more than a dozen other organizations he was part of. I reviewed many documents, and did the best on the obituary that I could. I confirmed that he was at Bell Labs when the touch tone phone was created (without the star or number keys at first), and several phone-system colleagues thought Jack Koten's account of what happened was probably true. My dad's version was that when Ma Bell decided to add the extra keys, one on each side of the zero, the company's engineers wanted to use the alpha and omega symbols (because the numbers one through zero and the alphabet had already been used up). But my dad, who was a corporate communications specialist and would be charged with writing about the new keys, thought it would be much easier to explain the change to the world if the company chose symbols that were on a typewriter. He said he studied his manual Olympia and picked the star and number-or "hashtag"- keys. I am quite sure I will never get to the bottom of this story, because I know from my own experience in business that it can be hard to determine the source of an idea 10 minutes into a meeting-let alone 50 years later. There's virtually no information about it online; my dad's life and career all took place in a pre-Internet world, which turned out to be a problem for the obit in general. (An AT&T spokesman said the company isn't sure of the * and #'s provenance.) Of course, the best possible person I could talk the story over with, my dad, is gone. *****
As we prepare to celebrate the season of new beginnings, as the bulbs emerge from the ground and the trees begin to bud, it is important for all of us to think and prepare for the seasons of our lives and those of our loved ones.
Wishing you and your families a sweet Pesach.
Betsy Zalaznick
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What You Might Have Missed
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Temple Tots
The topic for our recent Temple Tots program was Challah! We read a book about Shabbat, decorated Challah covers with the letters Shin, Bet, Tav (Shabbat) and learned how
to braid challah. Results of our baking activity are pictured below. Our chefs gave a thumbs up to our challah recipe.
Israeli Dancing
On March 9th, under the terrific guidance of dance instructor Elyse Litt, our Sunday Religious School, along with our amazing teaching assistants and Temple Tots joined in a fun morning learning Israeli dances. A combination of the traditional (hora, mayim) and not so traditional (zumba-like) line dances, plus folk dances combined for an extremely active and exhausting morning. We will definitely be adding dance as a regular component of our Or Chadash program.
Israeli Soldier
Amit Shukar, a former soldier in the Israeli army conducted two programs at Or Chadash this month. Our 5th - 7th graders learned a bit about Israel, through the eye of Amit, a former member of the Israeli Army. Amit led our 8th - 10th graders n a guided discussion using real life (life/death) situations and scenarios. Here are some photos of the afternoon session. One activity was designed to build teamwork....finding their shoes!! 
Becky Blades 
Becky Blades, author of
Do Your Laundry or You'll Die Alone joined our Or Chadash community on Thursday, March 13th for a book reading. Becky shared the inspiration for her book (her daughters Taylor and Tess) and some or her favorite of the 269 pieces of advice. Prior to Becky's talk, during dinner with our 8th/9th and 10th graders, Rabbi Forman shared quotes from our tradition on Jewish values relating to family life.
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| Purim 2014 | |    
Hope you had a ball celebrating Purim 2014. Thank you for making our Purim Project/Mishloach Manot a home run. You helped us hit it out of the park.
We thank you for your support of Or Chadash and its programs.
Rabbi Joseph M. Forman
Betsy Zalaznick, Chairperson
Caryn Tomljanovich, President
The Purim Committee
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| OCTY - Feed the Need Project | | |
Members of Or Chadash participated in Feed The Need during three different shifts.
Pictured below are members of the Thursday, March 27th team.
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| Bat Mitzvah - Jazzmine Parliyan | | |
Jazzmine Parliyan will become a Bat Mitzvah on April 12, 2014 . She is the daughter of Nisim and Alexa Parliyan, and the older sister of Tali. Currently a 7th Grader at Ethel Hoppock Midd le School in Bethlehem Township, her favorite activities include reading, writing, clarinet and making people smile. For her Mitzvah project, she created a scrapbook of kids who were born prematurely and presented it to the Morristown Memorial Hospital Neonatal ICU unit, to help parents who have premature newborns with inspiring stories. She has also created a team, Team Mitzvah, to walk for the March of Dimes at Spruce Run on April 27th. Jazzy's Torah portion is Acherei Mot which is about rituals. She is very excited to celebrate her Bat Mitzvah with her friends and family.
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| Bar Mitzvah - Mitch Sarinick | |
Michael Sarinick (Mitch to his friends) will become a Bar Mitzvah on May  3. He is the son of John and Toby Sarinick and older brother to Emma Sarinick. Michael is a 7th grader at J.P. Case Middle School in Raritan Township. He enjoys karate, roller blading, video games and playing Manhunt with his friends. Michael just received his 3rd stripe for his green belt in Karate and will soon be earning his blue belt. Michael's Torah portion, Emor tells the calendar of celebrations, laws on profanity, murder, the maiming of others, and an eye for an eye. Michael's mitzvah project is cleaning up the local parks. He likes keeping the paths and parks free of debris for others to enjoy. Michael is looking forward to celebrating his Bar Mitzvah with all his friends and family.
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| Jewish LIFE: Learning Is For Everyone | | 
Jewish LIFE (Learning Is For Everyone), our community wide adult education program, has an exciting new season of programs and special events planned for the coming year. A great lineup of special events are scheduled in addition to a wide variety of classes and films offered at our participating synagogues. The complete 2013-2014 Jewish LIFE brochure will be available on line at www.ssbjcc.org. Printed copies will be available at the Shimon and Sara Birnbaum JCC in Bridgewater.
- Thurs., April. 10, 6:30 pm: The Irma Horowitz Film Series: Falafel & Films, presenting "First Night", "New Year's Resolution", "I'm Ready", & "Alone" (Hosted by the JCC, Bridgewater)
- Sun., April 27, 7pm: Yom Hashoah Observance, Hosted by Temple Shalom, Bridgewater
- Sun., April. 30, 12Noon: Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman, That Our Hearts May Grow Wise: Cultivating Wisdom as We Age,
We suggest aging is the "final exam" of our spiritual life. We investigate the possibilities within Jewish life's spiritual curriculum for acquiring the character traits (middot), spiritual tools and perspective to ready ourselves for the challenges we will inevitably face. Lecture and discussion. (Hosted by the Wilf Campus, Somerset). - Sun., June 1: Celebrate Israel Parade, Fifth Avenue, New York City
Please refer to the Jewish LIFE brochure for program fees and additional information. To register for programs hosted at the JCC, please call 908-725-6994 x201. To register for programs at other locations, please contact the hosting synagogue or agency.
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