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Join our Virtual SunriseWALKS Celebration this weekend! Our Virtual SunriseWALKS Celebration is THIS SUNDAY at 10am! We hope you will join us for a celebration featuring celebrity guests, surprise performances, and most importantly, our Sunrise campers! Register for SunriseWALKS and donate what you can to help give summer back to kids with cancer and their siblings here. Already registered? The link to join our Virtual Celebration will be emailed to you! Stay tuned for more information. - Celebrating Outgoing CEO David Sorkin Last week, our Caregivers department presented retiring CEO David Sorkin with a special banner and gift to thank him for his leadership these past 15 years! WELLNESS Gentle Chair Yoga Follow along with this gentle chair yoga video! It's great for seniors and beginners! - At-Home Workouts Check out this link for a variety of workouts you can do from the comfort of your own home! - Ongoing Wellness Classes We have several virtual wellness classes throughout the week! From exercise to nutrition to medical care questions and more, there's sure to be a class to help you stay well and stay connected during this time! Check out our website for a full schedule of all of our virtual wellness programming! AQUATICS Aquatics Camp Registration for our JCC Trident Swim Camp closes TOMORROW! Be sure to register soon! At swim camp, our primary goal is to bring out the very best in every swimmer we coach! Whether you are entering the pool for the first time, a new swimmer looking to become more comfortable in the water, an aspiring competitive swimmer who is almost there, or a competitive swimmer looking to build endurance, we have a spot for you. We're so excited for another great summer in the pool! Click here for more information and to register for Aquatics Camp. - Strength-Building Dryland Workout This workout focuses on building total body strength so that you're more equipped to maintain optimal body positioning in the water. Complete four rounds of the following exercises, taking minimal rest between exercises and rounds. Click on the exercise for a demonstration.
SPORTS Registration for our summer Sports Camps closes TOMORROW! Register here! Core 24 Basketball Camp Our new-and-improved basketball camp will help your child become the best player they can be, and it's a great opportunity for them to have fun and stay active after months at home! Visit our website for more information and to register. Gymnastics Camp Our USA Gymnastics Junior Olympic Training Program teaches skills in each Olympic event. Led by our staff of highly trained coaches, campers will work on the uneven parallel bars, balance beam, vault, floor, and trampoline. Other fun activities include obstacle courses, games, and contests. Gymnastics camp is a fun and healthy way to learn new skills and make lots of new friends! Learn more and register here! JCC Soccer Academy Camp Alejandro Jimenez, our Head Coach and Soccer Camp Coordinator, has created a new curriculum that is specifically designed to ensure all our players are able to enjoy the beauty of the game while testing and teaching them skills under the guidance of professional trainers and coaches. At soccer camp, our primary goal is to bring out the very best in every player we coach! We will have access to the outdoor field, indoor gymnasiums, and outdoor pool, where we will do skills & drills, strength & conditioning, and just have plain old fun! Our camp offers three levels—Recreational, Travel, and Elite—to ensure that every type of player gets the right kind of attention! Learn more and sign up for Soccer Camp here! - Free Esports Tournaments Do you love gaming? Try out these free games for teens ages 13-18! Compete with friends and make new ones, from around the corner and around the world. Maccabi USA has partnered with Lost Tribe Esports to present free tournaments
ARTS AND CULTURE Recap: JCC Senior Boomers Ensemble's Virtual Variety Show Last week, IlluminArt Productions and the JCC's Senior Boomers Ensemble put on a fabulous virtual variety show! It was a great way for the participants to (virtually) get together and showcase their wonderful talents! Check out some photos from the show here. - Recap: SAJE Virtual Rabbi/Rebbetzin Series On Tuesday, we enjoyed a wonderful program presented by our Dr. Esther Grushkin Seminars for Adult Jewish Education (SAJE)! Rebbetzin Katzman gave an insightful lecture on Women and Empowerment in Judaism. If you missed it, you can watch the lecture here! - All Balanchine Program Lincoln Center is streaming a collection of landmark works by George Balanchine from rarely seen New York City Ballet performances. Check out the All Balanchine Program here! - Ongoing Cultural Arts Classes We miss all of our enriching Cultural Arts classes, but we are so excited to be able to offer some of them virtually! Check out our website for a full schedule of all of our virtual programming! MUSIC Music Trivia Challenge This week's Trivia Challenge asked... The supposition that this renowned conductor and composer poisoned Mozart, his musical rival, became the basis of an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and an Oscar-winning 1984 film. Who was he? Antonio Salieri (1750-1825). Born in Italy, Salieri went to Vienna with his mentor Florian Glassman. Succeeding Glassman as music director for the royal court during a golden age in Austrian classical music, Salieri fostered the talents of many promising students, including Beethoven (whom he taught without charge for a decade) and one of Mozart’s sons. Beethoven dedicated his Violin Sonata No. 3, op. 12 (1798) to Salieri. Salieri also composed many well-received operas, including Tarare (1787), which the Viennese initially favored over Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Although many still debate the possibility, there is little hard evidence to substantiate the supposedly lethal rivalry between Salieri and Mozart that serves as the basis for Rimsky-Korsakov’s 1898 opera Mozart and Salieri, or to support the notion that Salieri harbored a seething animosity for Mozart, as portrayed in the play and film Amadeus (1980; 1984). Stay tuned for next week's Trivia Challenge! - Virtual Brazilian Drumming Workshops Wednesdays, starting July 15, 6-week session Join Philip Galinsky for a 6-week Brazilian drumming workshop! Bring your own drum and join call-and-response games, learn new techniques and rhythms, and play along with a world-renowned educator and performer of samba percussion. Children ages 6-10 years old: Wednesdays 4pm Adults: Wednesdays 5pm Fee: $60 Register here You will receive a Zoom invite to participate following your registration. - Virtual Instrumental Lessons Beginning July 1 When we first closed our doors to the public back in March, the faculty members of the Dorothy Delson Kuhn Music Institute didn't waste any time and quickly adapted to the new normal! Our teachers helped their students transition to taking virtual lessons so that they could continue to benefit from their expertise in music. We are going to continue with our online instrumental lessons this summer, beginning July 1, and we hope that you'll join us virtually! Email Ela Seeley at eseeley@sijcc.comfor more information. - Scholarship Auditions We are currently holding scholarship auditions for the 2020-2021 school year! If your child is ages 12-18 and has some prior music training, please email a 1-2 min video of your performance (to include a scale and musical selections) to Ela Seeley, Music Institute Director, at eseeley@sijcc.com. Camp starts in less than 2 weeks and our staff is working hard to prepare for another amazing season! We can't wait!!! CAMP If you haven't registered for camp yet, there's still time! Register here! NEW: Performing Arts Specialty Summer Camp The stage is set for our newest specialty summer camp—Performing Arts! Campers will dive into an imagination zone, where they’ll get hands-on experience in all aspects of theater including acting, improvisation, dance, and music. Our young thespians will even create an original play to perform for their fellow campers and family members! Performing Arts Camp, run by IlluminArt Productions, is a great way to make new friends, build self-confidence, and express yourself! Registration for Performing Arts Camp is closing soon, so be sure to sign up now! Register here! SunriseWALKS We can't wait to celebrate with you virtually at our SunriseWALKS Celebration THIS SUNDAY, June 28 at 10:00 AM. Our online, virtual celebration will consist of a short program that you can watch from any device, and will feature celebrity guests, surprise performances, and most importantly, our Sunrise campers. The link to watch the virtual celebration will be emailed to you later this week. After the program, we encourage you to put on your favorite Sunrise swag and walk in your home, safely in your community, or celebrate with your team your way, and make a difference, no matter where you are! Register and donate here! - Sponsor Shout-Outs! Thank you to our sponsors, A-List Janitorial Supplies, New York Community Bank, and ShopRite for supporting Sunrise Day Camp-Staten Island! We'd also like to give a special shout-out to the Emergency Children's Help Organization, our Camp-in-a-Box sponsor! Thanks to your generosity, our amazing campers will be receiving boxes full of fun camp activities all summer! KIDS AND FAMILIES NaNoWriMo We all have a story to tell! NaNoWriMo helps kids tell their story by encouraging to complete daily writing challenges, ultimately working towards writing an entire novel! Check it out and start writing here! SOCIAL SERVICES COVID-19 Connect to Recovery Do you need help accessing social services related to COVID-19 relief? We recently launched our COVID-19 Connect to Recovery program, a one-stop shop for Staten Islanders to access social services that will help them recover from the effects of the current crisis. Read more about this new program and get information on accessing these social services here! - Resource Navigator Program We are excited to be chosen to be part of the City’s Resource Navigator program to assist those who have tested positive for COVID-19. You can see the Mayor’s announcement and learn more here. The #NYCTestandTrace Corps’ first group of contact tracers have made their first calls! They’re reaching out to New Yorkers who have tested positive for #COVID19 or have been exposed to the virus. This is how we stop the spread of the virus. Learn more: http://testandtrace.nyc - Special Enrollment Period for Health Insurance New York State announced a Special Enrollment Period for individuals who may have lost their health insurance as a result of their employment ending due to Coronavirus. If enrollment in Qualified Health Plans through NY State of Health Marketplace is completed by July 15, individuals will have coverage effective August 1, 2020. Enrollment into Medicaid, Essential Plan and Child Health Plus is open year-round. Consumers can apply for coverage through JCC NYSOH Navigators by phone at 718.981.1400 or 718-475-5271. COMMUNITY EVENTS Combating Anti-Semitism Coronavirus has unfortunately led to a serious spike in anti-Semitic activity on social media and is impacting local Jewish communities. Dedicated experts and researchers at the Simon Wiesenthal Center are working around the clock to find, expose, and combat anti-Semitism and hate. We cannot afford to allow such hate to go unchallenged. Please partner with the SWC by reporting anti-Semitic or other coronavirus-related hate activity online or impacting your community by contacting the Simon Wiesenthal Center at SWCNY@Wiesenthal.com. - CovidWatcher Survey UJA-Federation of New York has partnered with Columbia University, which is conducting a survey to track COVID-19’s impact on New York City neighborhoods in real time, filling in critical gaps in knowledge of the virus to better understand the needs across our communities. Ultimately, CovidWatcher will enable public officials, policymakers, and medical institutions better coordinate their response and target resources during the pandemic and the critical period that will follow. The survey is intended for everyone to fill out, regardless of symptoms or concerns about exposure. The ultimate goal is for every New Yorker to complete this survey. You can complete the survey here. If you have any questions, please contact CovidWatcher@columbia.edu. - U.S. Census 2020 If you haven’t filled out the census yet, now is the time to do it! It is vital that we are ALL counted to secure funding for housing, transportation, schools, and other services we rely on. It takes less than 10 minutes and is confidential. You can fill it out by mail, online or by calling (844) 330-2020. - Be sure to check out these additional programs from our friends at other organizations around the country! TODAY: TYSA Presents: Narcan Training by CHASI, 3pm Want to learn how to save lives and reverse an opioid emergency at home? Attend this free Narcan/Naloxone training workshop! Email abigail@sipcw.org to sign up. TODAY: Virtual Bake-Along with Chef Lindsay, 7pm As the summer officially kicks off, Lindsay Culinary and her sweet sous-chef daughter Valerie invite you to a special evening of 'Stars & S'Mores' where they will lead you through baking delicious S'mores Brownies. Get the recipe and watch live here Virtual JCC with the Schwartz/Reisman Centre and Prosserman JCC During these challenging times, the entire JCC community across North America has come together to share unique, engaging content with members. You can make a free Virtual JCC account to access a variety of live, virtual events. We'll be sure to keep sharing our favorites with you! Check it out here! Virtual JCC: "Juggling in Challenging Times: What To Do If I Drop the Ball?" with Lori Palatnik Monday, June 29, 10am Lori Palatnik is the Founding Director of Momentum. She is a world-renowned Jewish educator, speaker, writer, and media personality. Watch here - Every year, the JCC serves over 6,000 people in crisis. This year, that number has grown as Staten Islanders experience hardships related to COVID-19. Here’s the story of a family directly affected by the COVID-19 crisis that we were able to help: We were able to help an older woman who is out of work due to the pandemic. She was working for Amazon, but she had to quit because she is at high risk of catching COVID-19 due to preexisting conditions. We were able to provide her with food from our Kosher Food Pantry and referred her for SNAP food benefits. Donate to our Families in Need campaign here to help families like this one.
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