Friendship Club of Temple Beth Am, Parsippany, 11:30 a.m. Lunch and presentation by Joel Kampf, a graduate of Weequahic High School and West Point Military Academy. Cost is $10. Call Debbie at 973-887-0046.
JCC of Central New Jersey, Scotch Plains, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Cost is $8, free for members; $6.50 if staying for lunch, $4.50 recommended for seniors. RSVP by March 6 at 908-889-8800, ext. 260.
“Freshly Brewed” Coffee and Conversation with Rabbi Jeff Pivo of East Brunswick Jewish Center will be held at The Coffee Bar at the Ryders Crossing Shopping Center, Milltown, at noon today; on Thursday, March 12, at 10 a.m.; on Monday, March 23, at 7 p.m.; and on Monday, March 30, at noon. Visit facebook.com/EastBrunswickJC for […]
“Is There a Jewish Angle?: Who Needs God? What’s Kosher? Can We Find a Jewish Language for Our Life?” Sponsored by National Council of Jewish Women, West Morris Section and held with Rabbi Mark Biller at Morris County Library, Whippany, today at 1:15 p.m. and March 24 and 31 at 1 p.m. Contact iadpr@aol.com.
Admission $12 members, $15 non-members
On Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 7:30 pm, the Beth El Synagogue of East Windsor, Mercer County Genealogy Society presents “Where Do You Plant Your Tree?”. You have collected a lot of family memorabilia. You drew up a family tree on a piece of paper and put in in a drawer. How do you share […]
“Where Do You Plant Your Tree?” will be presented by Susan Kobrin, president of the Mercer County Genealogy Society, on Sunday, March 22, at 7:30 p.m. at Beth El Synagogue of East Windsor. Kobrin will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of creating and maintaining digital and paper family trees as well as the features of […]
Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, most synagogues and organizations have cancelled all in-person activities for the rest of the month. Some are offering online learning opportunities or plan to reschedule. Beth El Synagogue, East Windsor, is also holding activities via Zoom: “Torah and Tea,” a discussion on the upcoming Torah portion, will be […]
Earth Day 2020: “Protecting the Planet in a Pandemic: An Interfaith Community Program.” Congregation Agudath Israel (CAI), Caldwell, 7:45 p.m. via Zoom. Panelists are Rabbi Ari Lucas, associate rabbi, CAI; Sister Honora Werner, O.P., Dominican Sister from Caldwell; Hakan Yesilova of Peace Island Institute; and Ann Marchione, vice chair, Caldwell & Essex County Environmental Commissions. […]
American Jewish Committee will hold its Virtual Global Forum, its annual policy and advocacy conference, June 14-18. The full program will be available free of charge and can be accessed from any computer, tablet, or smartphone. Issues to be highlighted include the rise of anti-Semitism and hate in the era of the coronavirus, the 2020 […]
JCC of Middlesex County, Edison, 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Bestselling author Leslie K. Barry will talk about her new book “Newark Minutemen: A True 1930s Legend About One Man’s Mission to Save a Nation’s Soul Without Losing His Own.” The free program is offered in partnership with Jewish Federation in the Heart of New Jersey. […]
Virtual event presented by Rutgers University’s Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life. Prof. Nancy Sinkoff will discuss her new book, “From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History” at noon. Sinkoff, the Bildner Center’s academic director and associate professor of Jewish […]
“My Journey as a Social Activist: How a 60s South Orange Housewife Became a National Leader in Advancing Educational Equity.” Sponsored by the Kol Rina minyan, the brunch and learn program will be presented by Rebecca Lubetkin, founding director of the Rutgers’ Consortium for Educational Equity, at 10:30 a.m. For a Zoom link, email kolrinanjwelcome@gmail.com.
Long before he rose to international fame as a mime, Marcel Marceau put his fledgling career as an artist on hold to spirit Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied France. Watch the extraordinary new film Resistance about that little-known chapter of Marceau’s life, and then join our discussion with the film’s star, Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), […]
Sponsored by Jewish Family Service of Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren Counties, the job seekers success group will meet via Zoom, 7-9 p.m. RSVP for the Zoom invitation to Elise Prezant at 908-725-7799, ext. 108, or eprezant@JewishFamilySvc.org.