Let's continue building our community, despite the physical distance.
Please join us as we  go live, welcoming Shabbat with a beautiful story, songs and blessings. For children of all ages and their parents! Please prepare candles, so we can light them together!

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COJECO RJKrug: Russian Jewish Heritage Program for Families announces its open session. Join us for a virtual tour in the world-class Egyptian galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Journey back in time to Ancient Egypt, and explore the Exodus story through the eyes of the Egyptian society and Mythology.

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Victoria Drob is a Nationally Board Certified (NCC), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey. Victoria will give a talk on mitigating our anxieties in these times of uncertainty.

We do not have to be victims to our anxiety. We can take concrete actions towards our well-being and manage these turbulent feelings.

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COJECO is partnering with Marina Hiterer of Secret Chef to make Passover Desserts!
Tune in for this virtual cooking class where we will learn to make:
1. Cardamom Apple Cake
2. Lemon-Honey Almond Cake

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At this session we will get acquainted with the events of the late 18th - early 19th centuries. At that time about two million Polish-Lithuanian Jews fell under the rule of the Russian crown. We will find out how Russia considered what to do with its' new subjects and how the Jews reacted to it.

Yigal Kotler, a historian and author, COJECO Director of Jewish Education, will lead the participants through Russian Jewish History, exploring historical sources, archaeological evidence, and discussing numerous questions that are still a subject of debates between various scientists and historians.

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Marina Revich-Kravzov, MS, OTR/L, is a registered and licensed occupational therapist. In this live streamed lecture Marina will discuss Sensory Processing Disorder in kids and share the ways to diagnose and help treat this disorder.

 

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Nataliya Chernavsky MS CCC-SLP is a bilingual licensed speech-language pathologist in NY and NJ. She will discuss different diagnosis/problems in speech development and will educate parents about their rights in special education.

 

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Inna Vayner, Research Director of Bessarabia SIG of Jewishgen and founder of FindYourCousins.com, will discuss how we can get started with learning about our ancestry and building our family tree.

 

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COJECO is partnering with OpenDor Media to bring thought leaders directly to our community. Twice a week, we'll introduce you to Jewish thought leaders who are breaking the mold and impacting the Jewish world. You'll even get a chance to ask them questions in the live QA.  Each 30-minute episode will feature an interview with a leading Jewish personality. We will explore their background and learn about how they became Jewish change makers. 

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The program will include a Russian-language PJ Library story time, an unraveling of the Exodus story using Seder-food items as 'characters' and 'setting,' an at-home food-puppet-making experience, and songs sung together in Russian, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

At this time of uncertainty, why is now the right time to find community? Host Margarita Korol speaks with fellow Russian-speaking Jewish young professionals on their efforts to build community and promote the value of global Jewish responsibility.

During this unprecedented time, our friends and partners at Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan are busy creating innovative opportunities for the community to stay connected and engaged and-in some cases-continue to host programs previously scheduled by making them accessible to you in your home.

Social distancing or lockdown got you stuck at home? Take a virtual tour of some of Italy's gorgeous historic Jewish heritage sites.  Online tours (in English and Italian) that provide s elf-guided, room-by-room (and/or 360 degree zoomable) experiences. Navigation is optimized for computer, tablet and smartphone.

Starting this week, Yiddish theatre company is launching Folksbiene LIVE! - an online celebration of Yiddish culture featuring livestreamed theater, American Jewish performers, workshops, and other events - to entertain audiences young and old.

For the first time in history Russia's Bolshoi Theater is going digital. The "Golden Collection" of Ballet and Opera
will be broadcast online for free on official YouTube Channel, allowing viewers around the world to tune in.

Jewish life, for the time being, has moved out of our public spaces of worship, learning, and community and into the private sphere. In this period of quarantine and social distancing, Tikvah is announcing the launch of "Tikvah Live: A Special Online Lecture Series.