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Find your roots

The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County 310 Mounts Corner Drive, Freehold Township, NJ

Marc Diament presents “Finding Your Roots” at the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County in Freehold as part of its “Thursday Nights at the Museum,” 6-9 p.m., with the program at 7. Admission is $5, $3 for members, free for students. Light refreshments will be served. Call 732-252-6990 or visit jhmomc.org.

Stories of the Red Apple Rest

Congregation B'nai Israel - Millburn 160 Millburn Ave, Millburn, NJ

Adult Forum of Congregation B’nai Israel, Millburn, 12:30 p.m. Hirschhorn presenter Elaine Freed Lindenblatt will speak about the popular rest stop on New York’s Route 17. Cost is $12, $10 Adult Forum members. RSVP to Lois at 973-533-1809 with lunch order.

Trip to Poughkeepsie

JCC of Middlesex County 1775 Oak Tree Road, Edison, NJ

JCC of Middlesex County, Edison, will take a fall trip to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on Wednesday, Oct. 10, leaving the JCC at 8:30 a.m. and returning at about 5:30 p.m. Highlights will include the Locust Grove Estate museum and nature preserve. Cost is $68, $62 for JCC members, and includes transportation, admission, guided tour, and snack. […]

Actor’s Temple

JCC of Middlesex County 1775 Oak Tree Road, Edison, NJ

A tour of The Actor’s Temple in Manhattan with Rabbi Jill Hausman will be sponsored by JCC of Middlesex County, Edison, on Wednesday, Dec. 12, leaving the JCC at 9:30 a.m. and returning at about 4:30 p.m. Cost is $59, $54 JCC members, and includes transportation, guided tour, and snack; lunch is one one’s own. […]

$59

Back in time

Raritan Valley Hadassah will present a Trip in Time, back to 1901, on Wednesday, June 12, with a guided tour of a Lower East Side synagogue; bus tour of historic East Broadway; visit to a shtiebel, a one-room house of prayer; visit to the Center for Jewish History; and stops at various shops. Kosher box […]

$109

Grounds for Sculpture Trip

YM-YWHA of Union County 501 Green Ln, Union, NJ

YM-YWHA of Union County, Union. Cost is $40 ($30 Y members). Bus leaves the Y at 10 a.m. Contact Marcy at 908-289-8112, ext. 34, or seniordirector@uniony.org.

$40

Snug Harbor trip

JCC of Middlesex County 1775 Oak Tree Road, Edison, NJ

JCC of Middlesex County, Edison, will take a trip on Wednesday, June 26, to Snug Harbor in Staten Island for a guided tour of the NY Chinese Scholars Garden and the Tuscan Garden. A bus will leave the JCC at 9:30 a.m. and return at about 4:30 p.m. Lunch is on one’s own. Cost is […]

$58

GRAND BOAT TOUR of JEWISH NEW YORK HARBOR

Celebrating Milestone Anniversary of New York’s First Jewish Community in 1654 Celebrate with noted author and NYC tour guide, Oscar Israelowitz, on an exciting two-hour tour aboard the NY Water Taxi. This is a milestone year, marking the 365th anniversary of the landing of the first Jewish pioneers in 1654. The tour includes such sites as […]

$40

Jewish Heritage museum

the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth Country 310 Plaza Dr, Freehold, NJ

Join the East Brunswick Jewish Center for a trip to the Jewish Heritage Museum on Sunday, Sept. 22, departing from EBJC at 9 a.m. Lunch is available at the museum; return by 5:30 p.m. (approximately). Cost is $50 if taking bus (luxury bus with rest room) or $25 if traveling to museum on one’s own. […]

$25 – $50

Trip to Newark Museum

Sponsored by YM-YWHA of Union County, Union, 12:15 p.m. Cost is $40 ($30 Y members). Docent-led tour of “Seeing America.” RSVP to seniordirector@uniony.org or call Marcy Fox at 908-289-8112, ext. 34.

$40

Paterson Shul’s Annual Tashlich Gathering @ The Great Falls of Paterson

Paterson Falls 72 McBride Avenue, Paterson, NJ

Join in an annual gathering with members of the Federation Apartments | Paterson Shul Minyan Family-friendly and second tallest waterfalls only to Niagara, east of the Mississippi. Throw away your sins before Yom Kippur at the Great Falls of Paterson www.nps.gov/pagr/index.htm Free street parking, best area is behind Hinchcliffe Stadium. For more info contact JerrySchranz@gmail.com, […]

Pearl Buck’s home

JCC of Middlesex County 1775 Oak Tree Road, Edison, NJ

JCC of Middlesex County, Edison, will take a trip to the Pearl S. Buck Summer Home in Perkasie, Pa., on Thursday, Oct. 24, leaving the JCC at 9:15 a.m. and returning at about 4:30 p.m. Cost is $62, $55 for JCC members, and includes transportation, admission, guided tour, and snack; lunch is on one’s own. […]

$62

An Afternoon with John and Dorothy Hancock

Washington's Headquarters Museum 30 Washington Pl, Morristown, NJ

Presented by Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey and Morristown National Historical Park (NHP) and held at NHP’s Washington’s Headquarters Museum, 2 p.m. Program commemorating the 75th anniversary of a 1944 donation of a 18th-century highboy chest of drawers by the local Jewish community to Morristown for the nation’s support of the Jewish community during […]