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Community Articles/Sephardic Culture & History
The book we are about to describe will surely enhance the lives of all it touches. It will answer all your Judaic questions, offer insightful explanations to those answers, and guide this community as nothing ever has before. This is a book that every Jewish family will treasure, embrace and pass on...
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Community Articles/Community Announcements
New York City, New York, April 15, 2008: Jay Feinberg, Founder and Executive Director of the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation, will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah year of survival from leukemia at the Eighth Annual Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation Gala Dinner on May 15th at the Marriott Marquis Hot...
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Community Articles/Community Announcements
New Specialized Programs for Orthodox Youth
Each week at the JCC in Deal, more than 200 young people pour into the center for the best and most diverse after-school programs in Monmouth County. The kids come to the JCC by the busload from Hillel Yeshiva for the sheer fun of it. But a little th...
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Community Articles/Arts and Leisure
Calling all fun-loving kids: Do you want to have the best summer of your life? Would you and your friends like to plan your summer around the activities you love best, like sports, arts, filmmaking and much more? Then look no further than JCC Day Camps, where the staff has been working all winter p...
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Community Articles/Community Events
They said it couldn't be done. It could never happen here. We're too small. We don't have the space. We don't have the manpower to make it happen. We'll never pull it off!
Guess what? In the year 2001, history was made. We did it! By all standards, the JCC 2001 Maccabi Games by far exceeded all...
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Community Articles/Community Events
The JCC of Greater Monmouth County recently hosted 225 Jewish teens from around the world for JCC Maccabi ArtsFest 2007. Under the expert guidance of a team of professional artists-in-residence, ArtsFest teens experienced a week that will inspire them for a lifetime.
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Community Articles/Organizations
This summer, the JCC of Greater Monmouth County in Deal proudly opened its doors to thousands of visitors of all ages. Not only did the JCC host top-notch cultural entertainment in its state-of-the-art theater, but it also enabled many organizations to hold critical fundraising events, sometimes on ...
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Community Articles/Organizations
Center Play School (CPS) students at the Ruth Hyman Jewish Community Center in Deal Park recently donated 1,000 books to Chai Lifeline, Monmouth Medical Center, Jersey Shore Medical Center, Jewish Children and Family Services, and the Pajama Program.
05/29/2008 | 166 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF
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Community Articles/Community Events
My nine-year-old sister, Pearly, participated in the JCC's very own production of High School Musical. I've never seen the movie and unfortunately, I've never been to any of the JCC's plays before this one. Luckily, I had the opportunity to see this spectacular show. I couldn't, and wouldn't miss Pe...
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Community Articles/Education
The nation's first Jewish-themed taxpayer-funded charter school is set to open with approximately 430 students attending. The new Ben Gamla Charter School in Hollywood, FL.is a taxpayer-funded institution founded by the area's former congressman, Peter Deutsch. Ben Gamla Charter School says it will ...
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Community Articles/Jewish Communities
Early Jewish Communities in Cairo
In 641 the Arab general Amr Ibn-el-As conquered Egypt and founded Fostat, (today old Cairo) and made it a capital of Egypt. Jews settled quite early in Fostat as it became a flourishing economic center.
With the conquest of all of Egypt by t...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
On Rosh Hashanah, it is customary to sound the shofar and blow trumpets at the coronation of a king. Similarly, on Rosh Hashanah, we crown G-d as king over the universe at large and over each of us in particular.
The sound of the shofar is to awaken people to repent and return...
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Community Articles/Jewish Communities
Jews constitute a very small group within Pakistan. Various estimates suggest that there were about 2,500 Jews living in Karachi at the beginning of the 20th century, and a smaller community of a few hundred which lived in Peshawar. There were synagogues in both cities and, reportedly, the one in Pe...
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Community Articles/Jewish Communities
It is generally believed that the Jewish community in Italy began in 161 BCE, when Judah the Maccabee sent a delegation to the Roman Emperor. Four families of Jewish nobility settled in southern Italy and were dependent on Israel for law and prayer. After the destruction of the Second Temple, when B...
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Community Articles/Organizations
In the Israeli town of Sderot, parents cannot send their children outside to play on a beautiful day. Soccer fields are no longer home to after-school games. There is no sound of laughter or any other usual childhood noises. The streets are not filled with children riding bicycles but rather with a...
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Community Articles/Ask the Rabbi (Q & A)
This is the first part of Dr. Friedman’s examination of happiness as defined by Judaism and its various texts.
Everyone wants to be happy; few succeed at it. In fact, there are quite a few books discussing how to be happy and why many of us cannot find hapiness. A current best ...
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Community Articles/Community Events
An agent sat for over an hour with her client, discussing possible options and a plan for her client's future. They discussed the client's past experiences to assess what would be in her best interests. The client was thrilled with the personal attention she was receiving, and couldn't believe the s...
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Community Articles/Organizations
18 Years and 10,000 Babies Later
Visiting the Just One Life families, on our Magen David Yeshiva (MDY) Hesed Mission, was so powerful. You really begin to appreciate all the blessings you have in your life which you take for granted,” says Jack Horowitz. But for Justin Liniado, i...
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