May 2019 bring only light, happiness and laughter to you and your family!
May all your wishes come true. Happy New Year! С Новым Годом!
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COJECO New Jersey
COJECO NJ in partnership with Kaplen JCC Presents:
"Jewish Humor from Tanakh to our days" was the first lecture in the series of the inter-generational lecture series on Jewish text and culture.
Art scholar, Rimma Kharlamova explored various literary sources, folk tales and anecdotes to show that humor has been the cornerstone of the Jewish history. "It is like laughter through the tears" and it has helped the survival of the Jewish people through some extremely tough times. For more information about the organization and their events, please visit here.
Community Events and Opportunities
Yiddish Lullabies and Love Songs
Friday, January 18, 7-9:30 pm
Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan
Yiddish Lullabies and Love Songs
Join other Russian-speaking Jews for dinner and a performance, presented as part of our Shabbat Shabbang series. Inna Barmash is back at the JCC with songs from her album, Yiddish Lullabies and Love Songs, which premiered at Joe's Pub as the culmination of a COJECO BluePrint Fellowship. The performance will draw from songs collected in prewar shtetls in 1920s Ukraine as well as from contemporary Yiddish art songs. Join us as we step back to yesteryear with some of the greatest melodies of the 20th century. This program is part of the Shabbat Shabbang series.
Now in its tenth year, this highly acclaimed weekly program explores the larger themes of Shabbat and concludes each week with candle-lighting, challah, and grape juice. The class is taught in Russian by experienced early childhood educators and features music and movement, dramatic play, visual arts, storytelling, cooking, and much more!
Sims Municipal Recycling, 472 2nd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
This 75-minute tour program begins in the Recycling Education Center with an overview of recycling & waste management in New York City, followed by a tour of the city's environmental site features. Join us as we discuss the sorting process and the facility's operation, and conclude on the observation platforms inside the facility. We will delve into the importance of our role as caretakers of the environment and our connection to the earth. The program will end with an on-site volunteering program for your family.
Teens and young adults from the local Russian Jewish community will come together for a day of learning about civic engagement. We will address topics such as: breaking mental health stigmas, addressing anti-Semitism on school campuses, and gaining the tools to combat bullying. We will also explore the effects that social media has on our surroundings through immersive experiences. The event will conclude with a volunteering event, where teens will prepare care packages for a local women's shelter.
We Celebrate is a collection of submitted tributes that honors the women who inspire us, shape our lives, and give us hope for the future. Enjoy the warm, moving tributes here-and be inspired to add your own tribute to a special woman in your life!
Spanning the mid-1960s through the early 1990s, the movement for Soviet Jewry was an international campaign to secure two basic human rights for Jews--their right to live openly as Jews within the Soviet Union and to freely emigrate if they wished to do so. During the summer of 2016, inspired by a sense of urgency to capture their stories before they were lost, JWA organized a story collecting project to document the experiences of Soviet Jews and American Jewish activists living in the Boston area.
The Hebrew Free Loan Society (HFLS) may be able to help.
For 125 years, HFLS has been providing 0% interest loans to low- and moderate-income New Yorkers in need. Loans are available for emergency and personal needs, higher education, vocational school, small business start-up or expansion, fertility treatments, adoption, and more. All HFLS loans have no interest, no fees, and reasonable repayment terms.
Visit the HFLS website at www.HFLS.org to learn about loan programs and eligibility, or contact HFLS at (212) 687-0188 or info@HFLS.org.
HFLS a non-profit, UJA-Federation core partner agency.
Russian-speaking Facilitators Needed for
Virtual Senior Center Program
Using simple video-chat technology, homebound seniors participate in online programs facilitated by volunteers in a wide-ranging array of topics. Volunteers lead recurring classes from their home or office computer with a range of flexible scheduling options during the day, evening or weekend. Facilitating one hour, interactive classes on diverse topics enables you and the homebound seniors to have meaningful interactions.
Selfhelp is looking for Russian-speaking facilitators for the Virtual Senior Center, to participate in one hour class (on any topic that facilitator chooses: music and art appreciation, history, current events, seated exercise, games, health/wellness, sports, the sciences, cultures, travel, and literature. Any new ideas are welcome!)
Established in 2001, COJECO is the central hub of the Russian-speaking Jewish community of NY that facilitates successful integration of Russian-speaking Jews into the greater Jewish community, while preserving our unique cultural heritage. Learn more at
www.cojeco.org.
