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JEWISH LIFE & LEARNING

Our Department of Jewish Life and Learning at the JCC continues to offer innovative and interesting programming about culture and tradition. We encourage everyone to enhance your knowledge and interest as well as your enjoyment of culture and life through interesting lectures, language classes, partnerships and employment services. The programs listed here are only the beginning of very exciting learning experiences - both formal and informal.

  • Programs & Events
  • Community Programs
  • Global Partnerships
  • Connect To Care
  • Kosher Food Pantry

PROGRAMS & EVENTS

  • Women's Seder

Come to a unique Seder where you can explore your voice and role in the exodus, learn new things about Passover, enhance your own Seder. Bring your mother and/or your daughter, too.
Fee: $28 per person 12JE212
mother/daughter special: $50 12JE213
For more information please contact Sara
Cohen, 718.475.5242 or sacohen@sijcc.com.
Bernikow JCC
Monday, April 2, 7pm

  • Panorama for Jewish Living Lecture

in partnership with Wagner College Chai Society
Outreach: Tradition and Departure by Rabbi Abraham Unger, Ph.D., Wagner College Rabbi Dr. Abraham Unger is Assistant Professor and Director of Urban Programs in the Department of Government and Politics at Wagner College, where he serves as Campus Rabbi and Faculty Advisor to Hillel. Rabbi Unger is also Executive Director of the Office of Jewish Community Affairs of Staten Island, housed at the JCC of Staten Island.

  • Café Europa

Watch for our next Café Europa event for Holocaust survivors and their families. If you know any Holocaust survivors who would be interested in participating in this wonderful program, please contact Sara Cohen, 718.475.5242 or sacohen@sijcc.com.

  • Social Group for Single Seniors

Senior adult singles, mingle and socialize. Fun and Companionship. Trips, Theater, walks, and much more. For more information please contact Barbara Fried at 718.494.0389, barbarabf@earthlink.net

  • Ladies Learn

Please watch for dates and times for this new program where women can study important Jewish texts together. This program will be organized under the leadership of Bonita (Boni) Sussman.

  • Ulpan/Hebrew

Traveling to Israel? Come and learn to read and/or speak Hebrew with fun and ease!  Classes meet once a week at the Bernikow JCC on Mondays 8:15 -9:30pm or Wednesdays 7:30-8:45pm.
Hebrew reading
Learn to read Hebrew in small classes, and in a very relaxed atmosphere. The instructor is fluent in Hebrew and English, and you will be able to read Hebrew in a short time. No previous knowledge of the Aleph Bet or vowels is necessary.
Ulpan
Conversational Hebrew- You will be able to hold everyday short conversation with ease and joy. Classes are in a small setting. The instructor is very experienced, a Hebrew speaking native, fluent in English that will make it easy and fun to speak Hebrew. For more information please contact Sara Cohen, 718.475.5242 or sacohen@sijcc.com.

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

sponsored by JLI Staten Island
Kabbalistic Secrets to a Successful Marriage: How to Add Meaning to Your Love

Judaism is unique among other religions in that it views marriage and loving intimacy as a spiritual as well as a human ideal. According to Jewish tradition, marriage is more than a symbiotic relationship; marriage is a union of two hitherto incomplete souls, and the bond between spouses transcends their individual needs. Jewish culture and tradition idealizes a joyful and content marital relationship and has a treasure trove of timeless advice on how to jumpstart and maintain a happy marriage.
This six-week course that draws on millennia of Jewish wisdom, from the spiritual to the practical, providing concrete methods for improvement. It highlights many age-old ideas which are finding widespread acceptance in the scientific community today. The course will benefit newlyweds, couples happily married for fifty years, as well as those contemplating tying the knot. Married individuals will learn how to enhance their relationship and heighten their intimacy, and those looking to marry will discover the building blocks of a healthy relationship.
Fee: $85 per person; $150 per couple, scholarships available For further info or to register please visit myjli.com, or email jlistatenisland@gmail.com or call 718.370.8953.
Wednesdays, May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
and June 6

GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS

As participants in UJA Federation’s Partnership 2000 Grant, our JCC has developed a close and interactive relationship with our sister city in Israel (Pisgat Ze’ev- a suburb of Jerusalem) over the past eight years. Last year we welcomed Redbridge, England (a suburb of London) to this relationship and we are certain this will enhance what is already an incredible array of projects between the communities which have helped to strengthen bonds between us and prove most conclusively that we are all part of the Jewish Collective. Staff and Board members from each of the partner communities communicate on a regular basis. Teen delegations from Pisgat Ze’ev and Redbridge visited in August for a leadership retreat.

CONNECT TO CARE

In this economic crisis, the JCC is here for you. UJA-Federation of New York’s Connect to Care offers comprehensive support for these challenging times. Even if you never thought you’d need our services, we’re here to help.

UJA-Federation’s Connect to Care provides:

• Employment services
• Legal services
• Financial counseling
• Supportive counseling and Jewish spiritual care • Employment and career transition services, including job networking opportunities and free career seminars.
• Legal services.
• Financial counseling, debt counseling, and budget assistance.

To contact the Staten Island Connect to Care office please call Yaffa Schonbach at 718-475-5228 or e-mail: Yschonbach@sijcc.com

 

KOSHER FOOD PANTRY

Circumstances make it difficult for many families to get proper nutrition. Many families need to supplement their food intake. The Kosher Food Pantry accepts all items that are Kosher, non-perishable and non-breakable.
If you wish to donate or need the food pantry service, please call Sara Cohen, 718.475.5242.