News and Jewish Community Update
OPPORTUNITIES TO CREATE THE WORLD WE WANT
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e hope you and your family are safe and healthy especially in this time of high anxiety when there is increasing turmoil in our streets. These are undoubtedly the most broadly challenging months most of us have lived through. It’s obvious that the world today feels very different than it did in early March, before stay-at home issues were ordered. Each of us is affected by the events of the past 12 weeks. We’ve lost family members and jobs, we’ve missed milestone STEVEN SCHIMMEL, events and so much EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR more. That was before millions of our fellow Americans began protesting as the nation reached a breaking point over the important issues of equality and justice. But as hard as the times are upheavals are unique opportunities to address important changes needed in society. Throughout history, across the globe, civilizations progressed though the chaos and turmoil they encountered- and when united and
aptly led came out better and stronger. We can’t naively expect that a better world filled with more goodness is a guaranteed outcome. No, we must be the stewards of the change. Our actions are the insurance policy ensuring success. The situation we find ourselves in today presents us with a chance to make a lasting impression on our society- this is our time, we have opportunities right now to make changes in ways that would otherwise be impossible if not for the tumult we are experiencing. There’s a yearning in our world that is palpable. Disparate groups in our own towns and cities and around the world are stirring- looking toward a better future. And it should be us, now who commit to that better future. It can be the legacy of our generation- that in the year 2020 through the hardship and divisiveness, we choose to play the leading role in bettering the world and bettering ourselves. Let’s do all we can so that we may look back at this time satisfied with ourselves. Let’s work until we are tired, until we have met our issues head-on. Most importantly let each of us be leaders in our own lives- the world is in desperate need of leadership and goodness, let us change the world to be a better place than we found it starting today, starting now.
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STAY CONNECTED PJ LIBRARY AND PJ OUR WAY Daily activities online for quarantined families https://pjlibrary.org/familyactivities PJ weekly Summer You Tube Storytime and Craft with Rowan and Congregation Beth Israel. New episodes posted weekly on https://www.facebook.com/pg/ PJLibraryCentralMA/ or on PJLibrary CentralMass https://www.facebook.com/ profile.php?id=100010025564840 YAD Stay connected with weekly virtual activities including Shabbat, meet-ups and game events via YAD Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ groups/centralmassyad CHAVERIM Check Facebook group page for virtual activities https://www.facebook.com/ groups/chaverimcentralmass/ COMMUNITY Weekly class for women beginning June 15th (all ages) Summer Night Cool Down with CarynNeed to take the edge off? Craving a little “me” time to relax? Join us for a Monday night “Yoga-esque” 30-minute zoom class for women with group fitness trainer and community member, Caryn Beth Gold. WHEN: Starting weekly Monday, June 15th, 8:00-8:30 pm WHERE: Zoom indoors or outdoors, wherever you want RSVP: Mindy Hall, JFCM Director of Outreach, mhall@jfcm.org (RSVP’s required via email so that we don’t get Zoom-bombed. You can RSVP for the summer all at once or per class) COST: 30 minutes of your time to stay healthy in body and mind
DISCUSSION: “How Covid-19 has Impacted Special Education” Wednesday, June 24th, 8:00 pm via Zoom
OUR YAD COUNCIL STILL STICKING TOGETHER THROUGH COVID. 14
MASSACHUSETTS JEWISH LEDGER
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For more information or to RSVP on any of the above, please contact Mindy Hall, JFCM Director of Outreach, at mhall@jfcm.org or call 508-756-1543. majewishledger.com
