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East Brunswick Jewish Center Welcomes New Rabbi
Hatikvah students celebrating Israel's Independence day
EAST BRUNSWICK — The students of Hatikvah International Academy Charter School — all 108 of them — held hands and danced in a circle to a Hebrew song called “I Was Born to Peace” in celebration of the 63rd Independence Day of Israel on Tuesday. Young Israel of East Brunswick Welcomes Rabbi
The Young Israel of East Brunswick, the only Orthodox synagogue in East Brunswick, NJ, is pleased to announce that Rabbi Jay Weinstein will join the synagogue as its full-time Rabbi on August 1, 2010.
Rabbi Weinstein, his wife Sharon, and their two children, will be relocating to East Brunswick at the end of July from Dallas, Texas, where Rabbi Weinstein has served since 2007 as Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Shaare Tefilla. Hatikvah charter school announces building plans
Hatikvah charter school announces building plans EAST BRUNSWICK — The Hatikvah International Academy Charter School will join the Campus for Jewish Life, formerly known as the YM-YWHA of Raritan Valley, to build a permanent home for the two programs on Dutch Road. The joint venture was unveiled at a recent open house for Hatikvah, which is scheduled to open in September. The new facility will be built on the CJL’s 10.5-acre property, which includes basketball and tennis courts, baseball fields and an expansive playground. The new school will open in temporary quarters at a school building behind the Trinity Presbyterian Church on Cranbury Road. The Hatikvah board members said they hope to have the new building on the Dutch Road property completed quickly to accommodate its growing enrollment.
Former Y to lease space for future Hebrew charter school
March 24, 2010 The Hebrew-language Hatikvah International Academy Charter School has struck an agreement with the Campus for Jewish Life to lease space on its East Brunswick property for a permanent home for its facility. The agreement was announced March 24 by Hativah founder and board member Yair Nezaria and CJL executive director Robin Kessler. Rep. Holt honors Schechter on designation
March 15, 2010 Rep. Rush Holt (D-Dist.12) dropped by Solomon Schechter Day School of Raritan Valley on March 9 to congratulate students and staff on its designation as a Blue Ribbon School and to answer questions on everything from science to support for small business to health-care reform. Charter School to Locate on Campus For Jewish Life
Charter school to locate on Dutch Road campus EAST BRUNSWICK — The Hatikvah International Academy Charter School, which is scheduled to open in September, announced it has struck a leasing agreement with the Campus for Jewish Life (CJL), formerly known as the YM-YWHA of Raritan Valley.
Hebrew charter school holds lottery for slots
February 1, 2010 The Hatikvah International Hebrew Charter School in East Brunswick has filled more than half its 108 slots after its first lottery and remains on track for a September opening. More than 50 places were awarded to East Brunswick residents in the Jan. 14 lottery, according to Yair Nezaria, one of the school’s founders. Airport windows land at E. Brunswick shul
February 1, 2010
Four panels from two stained-glass windows that once greeted international travelers have found a new home at the East Brunswick Jewish Center. The two huge windows by famed Israeli artist Ami Shamir framed the ark of the International Synagogue at JFK Airport for decades, articulating the original chapel’s theme “reaching to the heavens and returning to earth.” Synagogue remembers 'Night of Broken Glass'
Honors teacher, dedicates stained-glass display
Aspecial service held Nov. 8 at the East Brunswick Jewish Center marking the 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht was a chance for the community to come together to remember, as well as look forward.
Kosher butcher, deli opens
Brothers Reuben and Joseph Rahmani have opened Galaxy Kosher Meat
Market, a kosher butcher, deli and catering establishment, at 2628
Route 516.
"When I found out that Goldberg's Kosher Meats was closing, I was interested in filling the void in the community," Reuben Rahmani said. "Jewish people need a kosher butcher." The Rahmani brothers have extensive experience in the kosher food business. They have been butchers and caterers for many years in Elizabeth, West Orange and Lakewood, according to a press release from the business. They currently own and operate Reuben's Glatt Spot in West Orange and are the exclusive glatt kosher food vendors for Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson. Ecumenical services for Thanksgiving serve as reminders of shared experiences
MIDDLESEX COUNTY — Rabbi Aaron Benson of the East Brunswick Jewish Center said organizing this year's 34th annual Community Thanksgiving Service has been both “an enjoyable and eye-opening experience.”
Each year, people of all faiths are invited to join members of the East Brunswick Clergy Council for a ceremony of thanks and prayer. The East Brunswick Jewish Center is serving as host for this year's service, which will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday at 511 Ryders Lane. EB Hebrew Charter approved by the State of New Jersey !!
The application for the
Hatikvah International Academy Charter School, teaching Hebrew language
and culture using the model of the International Baccalaureate
curriculum, has been approved by the State of New Jersey Department of
Education.
It is our greatest hope that the Hatikvah Hebrew Charter School will add to the legacy of academic excellence in East Brunswick, and bring the study of Hebrew language and culture to children from across the full range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds in our diverse community. Furthermore, we hope it will inspire other communities in our state to see the value in this kind of education and pursue a similar mission in their own community. You can learn more about the Hatikvah Hebrew Charter School at www.hatikvahcharterschool.com. New director sets out to build bridges
y Debra Rubin
NJJN Bureau Chief/Middlesex September 7, 2009 Mallory Probert comes to the East Brunswick Jewish Center with a wealth of experience in educating both Jewish children and adults. Probert took over as director of congregational and lifelong learning Sept. 1 following the retirement of Steve Solomon, longtime education and youth director. “My goal is to build bridges, not erect walls,” said Probert of her philosophy in reaching out to adults, children, and lay and religious leaders. Probert is former director of Long Island’s Florence Melton Mini School — a project of the Hebrew University — and J Learn, the UJA-Federation of New York’s Long Island adult learning initiative‘Funny philanthropists’
July 21, 2009 While there is nothing funny about the current economic crisis or the very serious efforts of the Jewish Federation of Greater Middlesex County to help Jews locally and internationally, even philanthropists have their humorous side. That will be in comical evidence this summer at federation’s annual Vanguard event, built around the theme “Jewish Philanthropists Telling Jokes.” The event — to be held Wednesday, Aug. 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the East Brunswick home of Linda and Monte Block — is for those who have given $5,000 or more to federation’s annual campaign. It is the kick-off for the fund-raising year; last year’s event brought in $1.16 million.
For 18 teens, no good deed goes unrewarded
by Mary Anne Ross - Sentinel
EAST BRUNSWICK - If it takes a village to raise a child, Rabbi Aryeh Goodman is certainly involving the whole village.
Everyone from town officials and educators to corporations and even an MTV star have responded enthusiastically to the Chabad of East Brunswick rabbi's latest community program - The Good Deed Awards for New Jersey Teenagers 2008. New name and lofty ambitions for former ‘Y’
The name may be different but the goals are the same. The entity that was the YM-YWHA of Raritan Valley officially entered a new chapter in its almost century of existence with a name change, a new board, and lofty goals to develop a Jewish community campus in East Brunswick. Planners also hope to make the campus the “greenest” JCC in the nation and to establish on the site a residential facility for special-needs adults. Ground breaking on the proposed 60,000-square-foot campus, planned for an 11.5-acre site at 75 Dutch Road in East Brunswick, was delayed by the economic crisis but is expected in about 18 months, according to Amanda Shechter, president of the newly renamed Campus for Jewish Life Campus for Jewish Life's FREE Memorial Day outing
The Campus for Jewish Life is proud to announce the 2nd Annual Central Jersey Jewish Family Fun Day, to take place at its East Brunswick facility on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25th. The Day is a Free event sponsored by the Local Jewish Community to kickoff summer and show off the Campus.
The Campus for Jewish Life, formerly the YM-YWHA of Raritan Valley, has enjoyed a seventy-year run as a centerpiece of the Middlesex County Jewish Community. Since closing its facility in Highland Park in 2006, The Campus has been hard at work, rebranding the organization and planning a new building at its East Brunswick site at 72 Dutch Road (http://www.tcfjl.org/ ). B’nai Shalom members explore Talmud, Kabala
April 14, 2009 Talmud and Kabala, or Jewish mysticism, are traditions that are inextricably tied together and that remain eternally relevant to those who can decipher their meaning. However, unlocking this “official theology of the Jewish people” requires much study and a little bit of imagination, according to noted author, scholar, and Jewish educator Arthur Kurzweil. Shoa commemoration recalls Sephardi victims
April 28, 2009 Whether they spoke Yiddish or Ladino, or came from Poland or Tunisia, Jews were slaughtered during the Holocaust for only one reason. “You had the label ‘Jew’ and that is what condemned you,” said Rabbi Dr. Mitchell Serels, author and scholar of Sephardi culture and the Holocaust. Student's GrandMother relates Tale Of Survival
EBJC school class hears how one teen defied the Germans.April 14, 2009 Seventeen-year-old Aida Brydbord and her new husband didn’t wait for the Nazis to liquidate the Jewish ghetto in the Polish town of Pruzhany, which had been occupied by the Soviet Union at the beginning of World War II. Schechter students bring life to philanthropy
Jason Cohen
THE JEWISH STATE Feb. 9, 2008 The Solomon Schechter Day School of Raritan Valley held its annual Magnificent Monday Dec. 15, where the students created and decorated life-size cutouts representing people in the Jewish community whose lives have been touched by the Jewish federation. Students of the East Brunswick school are involved in tzedakah projects on an ongoing basis, but on this day each year, they study the activities and support areas of the Jewish Federation of Greater Middlesex County's work. Each grade was assigned an organization to research and to design a cutout for it. The topics were: kindergarten: Israel Dental Clinic; 1st grade: support for programs at local day schools like SSDS; 2nd grade: free Shabbat meals at Rutgers Hillel; 3rd grade: hot, kosher meals for elderly Jews in Krakow, Poland; 4th grade: care for children at-risk in a Jerusalem shelter; 5th grade: children's library in Safed, Israel; 6th grade: care for teens at-risk, providing counseling and suicide prevention programs; 7th grade: providing food and safe shelter to Jews displaced by the war in Georgia; and 8th grade: kosher Meals-on-Wheels. Schechter students learn ‘how’s the weather’
February 3, 2009 First-graders at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Raritan Valley got some expert instruction on the weather and climate when they were visited by NBC meteorologist Chris Cimino. Students taught by Carrie Cowit and Michal Shmuel watched on Jan. 22 as Cimino drew maps of the United States on the blackboard and talked about the elements and how meteorologists forecast the weather. Each child received an autographed weather graphic that had been shown on air. Rally for Israel in East Brunswick
January 20, 2009 A hastily planned rally organized by the Jewish Federation of Greater Middlesex County drew 600 people — including political and religious leaders — to the East Brunswick Jewish Center to offer prayers and strong support for Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza. At the Jan. 12 demonstration, speeches by U.S. Reps. Rush Holt (D-Dist. 12) and Frank Pallone (D-Dist. 6) and Benjamin Krasna, deputy consul general of Israel in New York, were interrupted numerous times by loud applause. East Brunswick Jewish Center Announces the Arrival of new Rabbi and Spiritual Leader
By Sherryl Kaufman - Nov 12, 2008 East Brunswick Jewish Center (EBJC), the largest Conservative congregation in central New Jersey, proudly announces the arrival of their new spiritual leader Rabbi Aaron Benson. SSDSEU Sends the ninth-grades to Israel
By Daniel Listwa, November 10th, 2008 Early in the morning on September 10th, the ninth grade students of the Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union were eagerly awaiting to leave on their field trip. This field trip was not the average one; it was not to the museum down the road or even an overnight in Washington D.C. On that day, the ninth grade students were preparing to be whisked away on a ten hour flight to a land constantly gracing the pages of newspapers and the center of religion for most of the world, Israel... East Brunswick Jewish Center bounces back
The East Brunswick Jewish Center, which only a couple of years ago was losing members and money, has bounced back in the last two years with a growing membership, financial stability, new leadership, and increased programming... Renamed Y to develop new East Brunswick site
East Brunswick couple who defied communist regime reclaims Jewish identity
By BOB MAKIN June 28, 2008 A township couple who emigrated from the former Soviet Union in 1989 will participate in a group Jewish wedding ceremony Sunday. The wedding is organized by Congregation Briz Avrohom, an orthodox temple in Old Bridge... Content Management Powered by CuteNews
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Sept. 1, 2011, East Brunswick, NJ : The East Brunswick Jewish Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Rabbi Joshua Finkelstein., replacing Rabbi Aaron Benson. Rabbi Finkelstein will be leading the congregation towards a new exciting future and represents a long history of highly learned Rabbinical scholars- 7 generations.
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