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“Separate Yourself Not from the Community” Mom’s Night Out, for mothers of special-needs children, spons by the Friendship Circle, private home in Teaneck, 8pm, zeesy@ bcfriendship.com Anshei Lubavitch Women’s Workshop: Aromatherapy, Rivkie Bergstein, Anshei Lubavitch Congregation, Fair Lawn, 8pm, rivks1@ gmail.com “Halachic Living Wills and Other End-of-Life Issues,” Rabbi Hershel Schachter, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 8:15pm, 973-736-1407 “Surfing through Shas: OK, I’ll Sell You My Kidney (Temurah), Can I sell my organ(s) to Someone Else? With Whom Is the Organ Buried? Is There a Difference in Which Body Part?” Rabbi Benjamin Yudin, Cong Shomrei Torah, Fair Lawn, 8:15pm, 201-791-7910 “Pre-Chanukah Shiur for women: “Beauty: The JewishPerspective,” “The Halachos of Makeup on Shabbos,” and “PracticalApplication: What Is Shabbos Makeup and How to Make It Last,”Rebbetzin Rebecca Belizon, Cong Shomrei Torah, Fair Lawn, 8:30pm Rutgers Israel Public Affairs Committee, Rutgers Hillel, New Brunswick, 9pm, 732-545-2407
Parenting Tele-Conference: “Al Pi Darko: Finding the Uniqueness in Each Child,” Rabbi Shmuel Zimmerman, spons by the National Association of Support and Outreach, http://www.nasoamerica.org/recorded-programs.html, 9:30pm, call 712-432-1001, Access Code: 431-701-747#; to playback the shiur anytime, call 712-4321011, Playback Access Code: 412184-214#; am@NASOamerica.org
Thurs., Dec 6
NCSY Winter Regional, buses leave for Hudson Valley Resort and Spa, Kerhonkson, NY, through Sun., Dec 9, 201-862-0250 “The Town That Fought Hate,” 1993 holiday season in Billings, MT, for grades 3-5, JCC, Cherry Hill, 10am, 856-751-9500 ext 1249 JCC MetroWest Early Childhood Department Open House, for families with children ages 2-5, includes preschool and camp, West Orange, 10am and 7:30pm, 973-530-3468 “Real Problems and Solutions in Israel,” Irwin Graulich, JCC, Tenafly, 11:15am, 201-408-1450 “The Rodgers and Hammerstein Era: Reinventing Musical Theatre, Marc Courtade, Riverdale YMHA, 1:15pm, 718-548-8200 “Why Were So Many Jews
Attracted to the Ancient Greek Culture?” lecture and slide show, Sheryl Intrator Urman, Cong Ahavath Torah, Englewood, 3pm, 201568-1315 Sports Night, for specialneeds children 5-12, spons by the Friendship Circle, at the Moriah School of Englewood, 5:30pm, zeesy@bcfriendship.com Latke Mix and Applesauce Drive, for children, to benefit Tomchei Shabbat, learn about how people help each other prepare and celebrate Shabbat and holidays, make Chanukah cards to accompany care packages, Cong Rinat Yisrael, Teaneck, 6:30pm, 201-837-2795 Chabad Book Club: “The Chosen” by Chaim Potok, with Rabbi Mendy Herson, Chabad Jewish Center, Basking Ridge, 8pm, 908-604-8844 “Tolkien on Torah: Themes from His Novels to Explore Bigger Ideas in Torah,” Rabbi Akiva Weiss, Rutgers Hillel, New Brunswick, 9:45pm, 732-545-2407 Nefesh HaChaim Shiur: Jewish Mysticism and Spirituality, Rabbi Akiva Weiss, Rutgers Hillel, New Brunswick, 11pm, 732-545-2407
Fri., Dec 7
Holocaust Educators Con-
ference: “Museums and Schools: An Alliance for Learning,” Center for Holocaust, Human Rights, and Genocide Education, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, registration, 8:15am; “Accessing Museum Resources,” Stephen Feinberg, 9:30am; “9/11 Memorial Museum,” Noah Rauch, 11am; “NJ Commission of Holocaust Education,” Dr. Paul Winkler,” 12:30pm; “Virtual Field Trips,” Dale Daniels and Jane Denny,” 1:15pm; “Utilizing 9/11 Curriculum Resources,” Helen Simpkins, Dena Dobrish, Karen Levine, Vernoy Paolini, and Jill McCracken, 1:45pm, 732-224-1889 “25th Anniversary of ‘Freedom Sunday,’ The Dec 6, 1967 March on Washington for Soviet Jewry,” the plight and movement to free Soviet Jewry and lessons learned, Dr. Jay Blum, Avital and Dmitry Chizhik, and Rabbi Ronald Schwarzberg, Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva, Edison, 9:30am, 732-572-5052 Young Israel of East Brunswick Shabbaton, for grades 6-8 from throughout NJ, through Shabbat, Dec 8, youthdirector@yieb.org Carlebach-Style Davening, Jewish Center of Teaneck, 4pm,
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