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    • Aquatics >
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    • Physical Therapy
  • Early Childhood
    • Early Childhood Education
    • First Foot Forward
  • Youth & Teen
    • Camps
    • Sunrise Day Camp
    • Youth Programs
    • Teen Programs
    • Explorers After School Program
    • Community Afterschool Programs
    • Cornerstone Community Centers
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    • Department for People with Disabilities
    • Marvin's Camp
  • Older Adult Services
    • Beatrice Victor Senior Olympics
    • Senior Centers
    • Services and Programs
    • Memory Loss Programs
    • Holocaust Survivors >
      • Cafe Europa
  • Cultural Arts
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      • Cultural Arts Past Programs
    • Israel 75
    • Music Institute
    • Jewish Life
  • Community Engagement
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      • Link to Better Health
      • Bridge to Education
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  • Donate
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    • Sunrise Comedy For A Cause
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Past Programs

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Watch all of our free programs below!

Judaism 3.0 with Gol Kalev
​From Generation to Generation with Paul Alster
In honor of Yom HaZikaron, Israeli Memorial Day
Black History Month Program:
The Trials Of Ben Moshe... From Convict to Convert
​Parts 1 & 2
Chanukah: Bringing Light to a Dark World with Rabbi Sussman
​Parts 1 & 2
Jewish Holiday Rabbi Series: Rosh Hashanah: Perspective on the Days of Awe ​
​F11: Digital Paintings for Full Screen, Parts 1, 2 & 3
Tisha B’Av Day of Learning:​​ Rabbi Sam Kastel, Congregation B'Nai Jeshurun: The Evolution of Communal and Personal Mourning Rituals in Judaism, Parts 1 & 2
Tisha B’Av Day of Learning:​ Rabbi Dr. Jack Cohen: Tisha B’Av- A day of optimism and not sadness - appreciating our miraculous survival as a nation, Parts 1 & 2
Tisha B’Av Day of Learning:​ ​Rabbi Mendy Katzman, Chabad of Staten Island: Tisha B'Av of the past and future
Tisha B’Av Day of Learning:​ Rabbi Ivry, Congregation Toras Emes: Tisha B’Av; Our National Day of Mourning, Parts 1 & 2
Tisha B’Av Day of Learning: Rabbi Pearl, Congregation B'nai Israel of Staten Island: Limits of Public discussion and dispute: how Tisha B’Av resulted from an inability to disagree in a constructive manner, and work towards a common solution.  Lessons for our time! Parts 1 & 2
Watch Groundbreaking Jewish Performers Lecture 4, Parts 1 & 2:
Watch Groundbreaking Jewish Performers Lecture 3, Parts 1 & 2:
Watch Groundbreaking Jewish Performers Lecture 2, Parts 1 & 2:
Watch Groundbreaking Jewish Performers Lecture 1, Parts 1 & 2:
Watch ​Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People: 
Watch parts 1 & 2 of our Jewish Holiday Rabbi Series on the Mystical Significance of Torah Study in the Zohar with Rabbi Howald:
Watch parts 1 & 2 of Derfner Judaica Museum: Impressions of Eastern Europe, presented by SAJE:
Watch parts 1 & 2 of our Jewish Holiday Rabbi Series on The Meaning of Passover in the Time of COVID with Rabbi Pearl: 
Watch Our Exodus, a family celebration of Passover:
Watch parts 1 & 2 of our Jewish Holiday Rabbi Series with Rabbi Mendy Katzman celebrating Purim:
Watch parts 1 & 2 of our virtual tour of the Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum:
Watch parts 1 & 2 of our special event, Memories of a Child Holocaust Survivor in Terezin:
Watch our Rosh Hashanah Baking Demo with Sherry Sabbagh of C&J Bakehouse. Watch parts 1 & 2 to learn how to make apple cobbler and apple puff pastry braid (recipes below the videos):
Apple Cobbler:
3 apples (peeled,sliced thinly)
1 1/4 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 sticks butter (cut into pieces)
1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
Dash of cinnamon
Mix the sugar, cinnamon, and apples to coat evenly and pour mixture into baking dish.
For the topping: mix the butter, flour, brown sugar and mix it up with your hands until crumbles start to form.
Pour all the crumble over the apples and bake at 350 for 40 min or until you see golden brown top.
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Apple Puff Pastry Braid:
Puff pastry sheet (rolled out)
2 apples (peeled, thinly sliced)
3 tablespoons brown sugar
Dash of cinnamon
1/4 cup walnuts
Mix apples, brown sugar, cinnamon, walnuts together until coated. Leave aside.
Roll out puff pastry sheet to fit dimensions of baking tray or a bit smaller.
Put apple mixture along the middle of the pastry sheet leaving enough room along the edges to cut slits for the braid.
Starting from the top edge, cut quarter inch thick slits on the diagonal. Do same on other side of pastry dough cutting slits the opposite way.
From the top, fold the extra piece of dough over the apples to cover it from leaking out. Start to fold the strips over the apples alternating sides (like a braid!). Do all the way till the end and fold the bottom piece of dough over the apples (same as top).
Brush the braid with egg wash. Sprinkle sugar and walnuts over the egg wash and bake at 350 for 35 mins.

Watch our Tisha B'av series, featuring various rabbis and speakers. Below is Rabbi Katzman's lecture:
Watch our Tisha B'av series, featuring various rabbis and speakers. Below is part 1 & 2 of Rabbi Sussman:
Watch our Tisha B'av series, featuring various rabbis and speakers. Below is part 1 & 2 of Rabbi Kastel:
Watch our Tisha B'av series, featuring various rabbis and speakers. Below is part 1 & 2 of Rabbi Howald:
Watch our July Rabbi/Rebbetzin Series with Rebbetzin Chaya Segal. Rebbetzin Segal spoke about "The Three Weeks of Mourning," to learn how to apply the lessons of the Jewish calendar to your own day-to-day perspectives (parts 1 & 2):
Watch our June Rabbi/Rebbetzin Series with Rebbetzin Katzman on the topic of Women & Empowerment in Judaism (parts 1 & 2):
Check out our virtual gallery tour with Jill Krutick here: https://www.jillkrutickfineart.com/blog
Jill is offering signed limited edition prints as a thank you for your attendance. If you would like one, please email her your mailing address at JSK@jillkrutickfineart.com and she will forward a print to you. You can pick which print you would like from the options below. 
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Watch our Yom Yerushalayim Virtual Celebration:
Our Rabbi/Rebbetzin Series featuring Rebbetzin Ivry on "The Soul and the Afterlife":
Watch our Music for Healing class with Joelle Cohen (parts 1 & 2):
Check out this lecture on "How to Stop Emotional Eating" — A Lecture by Laura Shammah, MS, RDN, which took place on Monday, May 11th:
Check out our Virtual Art Tour, which took place on April 6th:
The Many Eishet Chayil of Art History - An Examination of the Most Famous Paintings of Women with Ronnit Vasserman
Given our current reality of staying at home and social distancing the lecture will take us on an exploration around the world where we will virtually visit masterpieces of women in leading museums around the globe. 
The lecture will focus on famous female portraits throughout art history.  A thorough analysis of each work including  dimensions, material, year(s) created and an introduction to the artists  will be explained. We will discuss the significance of the work at the time it was created and how the artwork continues to inspire and be part of popular culture. Some examples of these museum treasures include Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli  at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Mona Lisa by  Leonardo Da Vinci at the Louvre in Paris and Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer at  Mauritshuis  in the Netherlands.
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BERNIKOW/MID-ISLAND
1466 Manor Road
Staten Island, NY 10314 
718.475.5200 

ABERLIN/NORTH SHORE
485 Victory Blvd 
​Staten Island, NY 10301
718.475.5290 
AVIS/SOUTH SHORE
1297 Arthur Kill Road 
Staten Island, NY 10312
718.475.5270 

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2221 Richmond Ave.
​Staten Island, NY 10314
718.475.5100
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