We need your updated 2019/2020 information

for our "Kids at School" program

As fall approaches, the Student Outreach Program of Or Chadash is about to swing into full gear. The purpose of this program is to maintain a Jewish connection for our students away from home at preparatory, college or graduate schools. Students will be mailed a treat symbolic for some of the Jewish holidays. Students tell us each year how much they look forward to these packages and how comforting it is to know that they are still important to our Or Chadash Family.

We create a new "Student Address List" each year, so all interested parents should send in their child's address, email and cell phone for the coming year by September 1, 2019. You must submit this each year, even if there has not been a change.

Please consider taking one moment now to complete the information collection form by clicking HERE. Hope your "move-in" days are easy for all.

Any questions, please contact Betsy Zalaznick (908-806-2122 /  bzalaznick@gmail.com)

We are delighted to welcome back author Jennifer Gilmore to Or Chadash. Jennifer joined us on a cold winter February Shabbat to discuss her recent Young Adult novel, If Only, and the conversation expanded to include Jewish literature, contemporary authors, and her family's relocation from Brooklyn to Easton, PA! Jennifer's visit was so well received we reached out to her to explore the potential of a deeper dive into Jewish American Literature through fiction, essays, film and television. We are thrilled to invite you to register for four special Shabbat morning learning opportunities led by Professor Jennifer Gilmore. We hope you will join us! 

A little about Jennifer Gilmore

Jennifer Gilmore is the author of The Mothers, (Scribner 2013), currently being adapted to film, which she is Executive Producing, Something Red, (Scribner 2010), a New York Times Notable Book, and Golden Country (Scribner 2006), a New York Times Notable Book of 2006, an Amazon Top Ten Debut Fiction of 2006, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, on the long-list for the International IMPAC Dublin Prize, a finalist for the Harold U Ribalow Prize, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is also the author of two novels for teens, We Were Never Here and If Only.

Her work has appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies including The Atlantic, Bomb, BookForum, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Psychology Today, Real Simple, Salon, Tin House, Vogue and the Washington Post. She has been a McDowell Fellow, and taught creative writing and literature at Barnard College, Cornell University, Fordham University, New York University, the New School, Sarah Lawrence College, Princeton University and Harvard University.

Currently Gilmore is a Professor in the English Department at Lafayette College in Easton, PA where she lives with her husband and son.

Jewish American Literature: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

American Jewish writing has been shaped as much by social, cultural and political considerations as by literary ones. We will consider the Jewish American experience in American literature by focusing on a variety of Jewish American texts-fiction, essays, film and television-to continue the discussion of what makes a Jewish American and what are the themes that define Jewish American literature.

As we examine what makes an "American Identity" we will look at the stereotypes that are confronted and upheld in these texts. We will explore the various ways the Jewish American experience has been defined and examine its connection to immigration, acculturation, alienation and the rise of material wealth. We will investigate a fundamental question: Is there such a thing as "Jewish Fiction" and if so, will it continue to evolve?

We will read texts chronologically, from a range of writers that might include Anzia Yezierska, Abraham Cahan, Saul Bellow, Delmore Schwarts, Philip Roth, Grace Paley, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, Art Spiegelman, Joan Silber, Lara Vapnyar and Nathan Englander.

 

Or Chadash is pleased to announce that it is offering free Religious School to all children in grades Kindergarten, First and Second Grade. Additionally, Or Chadash has  created a new membership category called "Young Family Members." Families whose eldest child is in Second grade or below can participate in all the activities and programming at Or Chadash, as "Young Family Members" for a nominal annual fee of $180. 

Or Chadash, The Reform Temple of Hunterdon County, welcomes people from all faiths, Jewish and non-Jewish, and encourages everyone to participate in Jewish life. For more information about Or Chadash, please contact David Moutner, Membership Chair dmoutner@hotmail.com or call 908-806-2122.

Thanks to everyone who placed a Rosh Hashanah Honey order!

Don't wait till the last minute - order today!

Or Chadash Summer Childcare Listing

We now have a list of high school students available for summer childcare.

If anyone is interested in seeing the list of names, please contact Betsy Zalaznick (bzalaznick@gmail.com).

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