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Coming up at the JCC! Winter 2013 Volume 14, Issue 1
FAMILY PURIM CARNIVAL SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10 1:00-4:00PM
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NEW THIS YEAR! GAGA TOURNAMENT, XBOX GAMING & CAR RACING
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Inflatable Mountain Climber - Baseball Speed Pitch Pony Rides - Games - Prizes - DJ - Food The rutgers Scarlet knight - Sparkee visits at 2pm Costume Parade at 2:30pm - and much more! Additional parking & free shuttle bus provided from 685 Route 202/206, Bridgewater
Volunteers Needed! Contact Paige x207
Jewish Teen Trip to Israel June 30 – July 23, 2013 Open to teens entering grades 9-12 (as of Sept. 2013).
• REGISRATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY FEBRUARY 20, 2013 • Experience Israel with friends from your community. • Trip organized through JCC Maccabi Israel. • Comprehensive tour throughout Israel visiting and exploring Jerusalem, Tel Aviv & more).. • Climb Masada! Float in the Dead Sea! Camel Trekking in the desert!
• Wed.,Jan. 23, 6:00pm Fig and Date Tasting • Fri.,Feb.1, 6:00pm Tu B’Shevat Seder and Shabbat Dinner • Thurs.,Feb.7 The Irma Horowitz Films Series Featuring Falafel & Israel Short Films (Jewish LIFE)
• Sun., Feb. 10, 1:00-4:00pm Family Purim Carnival • Tues., Feb. 12, 7:00pm Reuven Firestone (Jewish LIFE) • Thurs.,Feb. 14, 9:00am Sands Casino Bethlehem, PA • Tues., Feb. 19, 1:00pm Hamantaschen Baking • Thurs., Feb. 21, 6:30pm Purim Wine Tasting • Sunday, March 3, 9:30am Mah Jongg Tournament (Doors Open 8:45am) • Thurs., March 7, 7:00pm Robert Rosenthal (Jewish LIFE) • Sat., March 16, 8:00pm (Doors Open 7:30) Comedy Night • Sat., March 16, 7:00pm Peninnah Schram & Gerald Edery (Jewish LIFE at Temple Beth-El, Hillsborough)
• Tues., March 19, 6:00pm Passover Chocolate Seder • Wed. March 20, 12 Noon Delia Ephron (Jewish LIFE) • Sun., April 7, 7:00pm Yom HaShoah Community Wide Program (Jewish LIFE at Knesseth Israel, Bound Brook)
• Thurs. April 18, 6:30pm Fit & Go Fashion Show at Twin Brooks Country Club
Inquire about our reduced rates! Contact: Paige Silberfein Phone: (908) 725-6994 x207 E-mail: PSilberfein@ssbjcc.org
Save the date!
The Improvables Saturday, June 1 • 8pm
HOLIDAY HOURS Monday, March 25:
The JCC will be closing at 3pm for the first night of Passover. Passover is a spring festival that commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery.
Tuesday and Wednesday, March 26 & 27: The JCC will be closed for Passover. Wishing you a Chag Sameach!
Opportunity of a Lifetime! 2012
“Courier Ne Reader’s Ch ws oice” W
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Comedy Night at the JCC with Headliners Chris Coccia, Marla Schultz and Emcee Adam Oliensis
Saturday, March 16 • Doors open at 7:30pm Enjoy an evening of comedy with your friends! $45 pp in advance $55 at the door
Amazing Activities! • Flexible Schedule! Heated Pools! • Indoor & Outdoor Facility! High Staff-Camper Ratio!
SAVE $50 on New Camp Registrations December 2, 2012 when registering at an open house. OPEN HOUSE DATES Call Lauren x264 or Stacey x223 for more information!
February 7 and March 11 5:00-7:30pm
To Benefit The JCC Scholarship Fund
Doors open at 8:45 am • Tournament begins promptly at 9:30 am $50/person by February 4 $60/person after February 4 Coffee and Deli Lunch • Call Lisa x 206 for information. To Register, call x201.
Dine & Donate
Supporting The JCC Scholarship Fund ROOF!
Houlihan’s
Chanukah Party Bridgewater (Route 22)
Tuesday, March 19 10% of all checks from JCC members and guests Monday, December 10 • 6:00 pm will be donated back to the J! Make a gift for someone you at ourin FLYER MUST BE PRESENTED and arelove available many “gift making” stations. Then the JCC office. RSVP X201 get it all ready toto give by going to our “wrapping” and “card making” stations. Art specialists will be on hand to assist THANK YOU! in making awesome gifts! Latkas and a Tribute Card Donations: Tribute dinner Card Donations: kidBernstein; friendly will beGeoff served. Ken ECC Blank Staff; Adena Feinstein; Harriet & George • Laura&Friedman Fee: $8/adult, $6/child, Max perGoldstein; family $30 Laura Debbie Golden; Carol AmyFriedman; & Seth Geldzahler • Debbie Golden
Thank You!
Judy & Larry Gross • Caryn && Jeff Kenin Nancy & Joe Gorrell; Judy Larry Gross; Ronni &Leibner; Mark Lederman HarrietHarriet Rosen Rosen; Sondra Barbara •Nastro; Monica & Richard Skydell • Sherry & Doron Steger Marsha Panzer; Sherry & Doron Steger; Mona & Eric Yorke Pam & Stuart Teitelbaum JCC Tribute Cards are easy to send & support In The Memory of IrvingFund. Kasendorf: JCC Scholarship
Andrea & Randy & Rob Bixon; Minimum donation is $18.Berkow; Call x201Jenn for assistance.
Thank to our Dog Sponsors: Gregyou Fairlouch; LauraDay & Brett Friedman; Barker Bus, Camp&Bow Bridgewater Veterinary Debbie PaulWow, Golden; Carol Goldstein; Hospital, Pet Supplies JeffreyCherrybrook Matthews Financial Group; Thank you to our Texas Hold’em Committee: Caryn & Jeff Kenin; Sondra Geoff Feinstein, Chair Leibner; Elana & SethHirsch, Schwartz; A. Shure; Josh Cohen, Richard Spencer Tucker
Jinny & Bill Strawderman; Denise & Wally Yosafat
Early Bird registration ends January 14! Don’t miss out! Our new easy Online Registration System is now open! Clicksupported and enroll now Thank you to everyone who on the Camp web page!
Dancing with the JCC Stars and to our eight Paige Silberfein, Assistant Exec. Director/Camp Director: x 207; JCC Dancing Stars! PSilberfein@ssbjcc.org Our Adpositions Journalavailable. can beApply viewed on www.ssbjcc.org our website at Staff online: www.ssbjcc.org.
Thank you to our Texas Hold’em Sponsors: Felt Sponsors: Thank you to Table our Dancing with the JCC Stars Cables & Chips; The Jeffrey Matthews Group Committee Members: Platinum Table Sponsors: Co-Chairs: Gorrell and Caryn Kenin Gary’s WineNancy & Marketplace; Protiviti Andrea Berkow; Berkow; Cindy Elgrably; TableCindy Sponsors: Luongo & Associates, LLC; Money Mailer LauraTucker Friedman; Deby Goldberg; Debbie Golden; Toscana’s Italian Restaurant Carol Goldstein; Peter Horowitz; Andrea Keats;
Lisa Kopman; Ellen McCloskey; Roxanne Levinston;
Thank you to all of our Texas Hold’em participants Paige Silberfein and congratulations to our first place winner, Wally Yosafat.
Thank you to all of our
Thank you to all our members who participated in Dancing the JCC the with Member Art Stars Show.participants.
OPEN OPEN HOUSE HOUSE DATES DATES Thursday, 7 &&Thursday, Monday,March March Thursday,Feb. Feb. 7 7 11 5:00-7:30pm 5:00 - 7:30pm
Shabbat at the J!
Ages 6 weeks to Kindergarten
SAVE $50 off NEW School Registrations When you register at one of our Open House events. Some restrictions apply
The Irma Horowitz Film Series Featuring Falafel & Israel Short Films: Barriers, Stand Up, Cheftzi On Air The Ma’aleh School
Thursday, Feb. 7 • 6:30pm Fee: $10/per person or $15 at the door February 13 STEP UP Wed., 7:00pm
Thurs., March 4 1 7:00pm FOR ISRAEL Crossing the Line: SPEAK UP for Israel Sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Somerset, Hunterdon and The Intifada Comes Warren Counties as part of the Jewish LIFE program. Thurs., April 11 to Campus 7:00pm Free to the Community Israel Inside
Reuven Firestone
Holy War in JudaismThe Fall & Rise of a Controversial Idea
Tuesday, February 12 7:00pm Fee: $8/person in advance
$10/person at the door
Robert Rosenthal
From Plagues to Miracle
Thursday, March 7 7:00pm Fee: $8/person in advance
$10/person at the door
Peninnah Schram and Gerard Edery “The Minstrel and the Storyteller”
Saturday, March 16
Call our Preschool Director, Linda Weiss 908.725.6994 x208; Email: LWeiss@ssbjcc.org
Coming in April! Register Now!
• Year Round Program - School & Summer Camp • Preschool & Daycare Hours: 7:30am-6:00pm • Full Day Infant Child Care • Full Day Kindergarten Program • Half-Day Kindergarten Enrichment Extension Program (AM & PM) • Developmentally Appropriate Academic Program • Swim Instruction, Music & Physical Education • Certified & Experienced Teachers
Join us every Friday at 3:15pm in the lobby as we welcome in Shabbat. Enjoy challah and “shabbat juice” and say the prayers with us! For additional info., contact “Shalom” Stacey at x223 SHerman@ssbjcc.org
& Basket Auction Thursday, April 18, 2013 • 6:30 PM Twin Brooks Country Club Watchung, NJ $90/pp in advance $100 /ppafter at the door $90/pp by April 8 ••$100/pp April 8 Feeincludes: includes:Sit Sitdown down dinner, dinner, fashion Fee fashion show show and TierOne” One basket and 2626 “Tier basketauction auctiontickets. tickets. Cash Bar Bar Cash Sponsorship opportunities available. Fashions provided by: GAP Hillary’s Inspiring Fitwear lululemon normakamali Title Sponsor: Title Sponsor:
7:00 PM
(Hosted by Temple Beth-El)
Delia Ephron The Lion is in
Wednesday, March 20 12 NOON Program/Luncheon Fee: $18/advance $22/at the door
Yom HaShoah Community Wide Program Sunday, April 7 • 7:00pm Hosted by Knesseth Israel, Bound Brook
Doni Zasloff Thomas
Get Cooking! A Jewish American Family CookbookMusical Book Talk
Thursday, April 11 6:00 pm Fee: $8/person in advance
$10/person at the door
Coming in February!
NEW!
P90X is a 90-day fitness program that combines a variety of exercise techniques including strength training, cardio, yoga, plyometrics and stretching. Watch for more details! Questions... contact Joy x226; jmcintyre@ssbjcc.org
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Upcoming Events! JANUARY we celebrate Tu B’Shevat! Fig & Date Tasting Wednesday, January 23 • 6:00-8:00pm • Drop by and sample
some Tu B’Shevat treats! Figs are traditionally eaten on the holiday of Tu B’Shevat. We will taste some different types of Tu B’Shevat figs and fruit.
FEBRUARY we celebrate Purim!
In the lobby celebrating Shabbat. Friday, March 22 Making origami frogs for Passover.
“For the Kids” Purim Carnival
Passover Chocolate Seder
Everyone is welcome!
Enjoy eating delicious chocolate while we read the story of Passover. Pizza and salad dinner will be served as well. $10 per person/$40 max per family
Sunday, February, 10 • 1:00-4:00pm
Free!
Hamantaschen Baking
Tuesday, February 19 • 1:00pm
Shabbat Dinner/Tu B’Shevat Seder Friday, February 1 • 6:00pm Learn about Tu B’Shevat through an interactive seder. Taste different fruits traditionally eaten at this holiday. Children will make their own eco- mezuzahs with tree branches. $10 per person/$40 max per family
MARCH we celebrate Passover!
In the lobby celebrating Shabbat. Friday, February 22 Making masks and groggers for Purim.
Everyone is welcome! Free of charge!
Tuesday, March 19 • 6:00pm
“For the Adults” Purim Wine Tasting Thursday, February 21 • 6:30-8:00pm Celebrate Purim with a wine tasting of Kosher wines! Purchase your wines for your Passover seder. $5 per person
*Purchase a tree to plant in Israel to celebrate Tu B’Shevat. Contact Shalom Stacey x223 for more information.
Texas Hold’Em in Hunterdon!
Wednesday, May 22
at the Flemington JCC
| www.ssbjcc.org | info@ssbjcc.org Mark your calendar now...
4th Annual 5K Thursday, July 25
(908) 725-6994
Annual Golf Outing
775 Talamini Road Bridgewater, NJ 08807 Monday, June 10, 2013 Raritan Valley Country Club Brochure coming soon!
Golf Outing 2013
Sands Casino- Bethlehem, PA
9/11 Memorial Trip
$35 per person-includes coach bus, $20 slot card & $5 lunch voucher
$50/pp includes transportation.
Thursday, February 14 • 9am-4pm
Tuesday, April 9 • 9am
Hands on Demonstration & Culinary Tasting
• Self guided tour of the memorial. • Lunch: Table reserved at Katz’s Deli for group. Pay on your own. • Time for walking around Lower East Side.
$50 per person
“An Afternoon in the Catskills”
A Culinary Experience at the Marriott Thursday, March 14 • 7pm • Marriott Bridgewater Delectable menu includes fish entrée. Join the chef as participants will be assigned tasks in the kitchen under the chef’s supervision and direction from other chefs.
Register by Monday, March 4
with Freddie Roman at NJPAC
Call x201 to register.
Thursday, May 2 • 10am $90 per person includes coach bus, box lunch & tour of the theater