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Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Wednesdays A full day program is available to members on Wednesdays. Membership includes discounts to all senior adult programs and travel club events. Each week offers a variety of activities including lectures, fitness, discussion groups, entertainment and more. Typical courses include current events, Jewish history, play reading, nutrition, Yiddish, art, choral group and more. To reserve a kosher lunch on Wednesdays, please call 617-558-6596 (10-11am) the Friday before the Wednesday program. There is a $3 suggested donation for lunch and full day program. If you are a Brookline or Brighton resident, transportation is available on Wednesdays. For transportation reservations, please call 617-558-6596. Begins Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10am-3pm
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Wednesdays
A full day program is available to members on Wednesdays. Membership includes discounts to all senior adult programs and travel club events. Each week offers a variety of activities including lectures, fitness, discussion groups, entertainment and more. Typical courses include current events, Jewish history, play reading, nutrition, Yiddish, art, choral group and more. To reserve a kosher lunch on Wednesdays, please call 617-558-6596 (10-11am) the Friday before the Wednesday program. There is a $3 suggested donation for lunch and full day program. If you are a Brookline or Brighton resident, transportation is available on Wednesdays. For transportation reservations, please call 617-558-6596. Begins Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10am-3pm
LSJCC, Start Date: 04/07/2013, End Date: 06/09/2013, Time: 6:15 PM-8:15 PM Build your repertoire and take your knowledge of Israeli dances from multiple decades to new heights in this faster-paced class. Teaching and learning of more intricate circle and line dances of the debka, yemenite, and hora styles will be emphasized. Instructor: Latishya Steele
LSJCC, Start Date: 04/07/2013, End Date: 06/09/2013, Time: 6:15 PM-8:15 PM
Build your repertoire and take your knowledge of Israeli dances from multiple decades to new heights in this faster-paced class. Teaching and learning of more intricate circle and line dances of the debka, yemenite, and hora styles will be emphasized. Instructor: Latishya Steele
LSJCC, Start Date: 04/09/2013, End Date: 06/11/2013, Time: 7:00 PM-9:30 PM Israeli dance is fun, heartfelt, and great exercise. You will be introduced to a variety of steps, styles and rhythms as participants develop a repertoire that will keep everyone moving through the entire class. Instructor: Latishya Steele
LSJCC, Start Date: 04/09/2013, End Date: 06/11/2013, Time: 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
Israeli dance is fun, heartfelt, and great exercise. You will be introduced to a variety of steps, styles and rhythms as participants develop a repertoire that will keep everyone moving through the entire class. Instructor: Latishya Steele
LSJCC, Start Date: 04/09/2013, End Date: 06/11/2013, Time: 8:00 PM-9:30 PM While klezmer music, a centuries-old folk art from Eastern Europe, is emphasized we will also explore the multi-faceted palate of Jewish music. Almost any instrument (winds, brass, strings, voice and piano) can be worked into this ensemble. Includes coaching and historical background with occasional performances. Instructor: Barry Shapiro
LSJCC, Start Date: 04/09/2013, End Date: 06/11/2013, Time: 8:00 PM-9:30 PM
While klezmer music, a centuries-old folk art from Eastern Europe, is emphasized we will also explore the multi-faceted palate of Jewish music. Almost any instrument (winds, brass, strings, voice and piano) can be worked into this ensemble. Includes coaching and historical background with occasional performances. Instructor: Barry Shapiro
Heritage at Framingham, Sunday, May 19, 2013 10-11:30am Designed for families with children ages 2-6 years Even little hands can do a mitzvah (good deed).Work as a community at this intergenerational program to help support Birthday Wishes, a local nonprofit organization that brings birthday parties to homeless children living in shelters in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Filling goody bags, make birthday cards, get your face painted, decorate cupcakes and enjoy party games. Program emphasizes ways of giving in terms little ones can understand. No charge. Please bring a pack of juice boxes and/or a box of cake mix to donate to Birthday Wishes. Everyone welcome. For more information, contact metrowest@jccgb.org or 508-879-3300.
Heritage at Framingham, Sunday, May 19, 2013 10-11:30am
Designed for families with children ages 2-6 years Even little hands can do a mitzvah (good deed).Work as a community at this intergenerational program to help support Birthday Wishes, a local nonprofit organization that brings birthday parties to homeless children living in shelters in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Filling goody bags, make birthday cards, get your face painted, decorate cupcakes and enjoy party games. Program emphasizes ways of giving in terms little ones can understand. No charge. Please bring a pack of juice boxes and/or a box of cake mix to donate to Birthday Wishes. Everyone welcome. For more information, contact metrowest@jccgb.org or 508-879-3300.
Waltham Community Farm, Sunday, June 2, 2013 10am-12pm Designed for families wtih young children Learn all about where our food comes from. Help with planting raised beds on the farm. Visit real beehives and learn how bees help make food and the honey we eat on Rosh Hashanah. Enjoy a farm-to-table snack in a solar powered kitchen and design a souvenir of your day on the farm. Rain date: Sunday, June 9 (10-11:30am). Open to the entire community. All JCC arts and humanities offerings are programs of the Ryna Greenabum JCC Center for the Arts. For more information, contact metronorth@jccgb.org or 617-841-8009.
Waltham Community Farm, Sunday, June 2, 2013 10am-12pm
Designed for families wtih young children Learn all about where our food comes from. Help with planting raised beds on the farm. Visit real beehives and learn how bees help make food and the honey we eat on Rosh Hashanah. Enjoy a farm-to-table snack in a solar powered kitchen and design a souvenir of your day on the farm. Rain date: Sunday, June 9 (10-11:30am). Open to the entire community. All JCC arts and humanities offerings are programs of the Ryna Greenabum JCC Center for the Arts. For more information, contact metronorth@jccgb.org or 617-841-8009.
Winslow Farm Animal Sanctuary, Sunday, June 2, 2013 12-1:30pm Designed for families with young children Winslow Farm is devoted to the rescue and care of animals. They do mitzvahs (good deeds) every day by taking good care of the animals that share our world. Take a guided tour of the farm, interact with the animals (geese, goats, donkeys, horses, llamas, pigs and more) and hear stories of how the animals came to be at Winslow Farm. Afterward, play on the enchanted playground. Please bring a can of cat food, a roll of paper towels, or birdseed to donate to the animal sanctuary. The grounds are stroller accessible. Rain date Saturday, June 8, 12-1:30pm. For more information, contact south@jccgb.org or 781-795-0510.
Winslow Farm Animal Sanctuary, Sunday, June 2, 2013 12-1:30pm
Designed for families with young children Winslow Farm is devoted to the rescue and care of animals. They do mitzvahs (good deeds) every day by taking good care of the animals that share our world. Take a guided tour of the farm, interact with the animals (geese, goats, donkeys, horses, llamas, pigs and more) and hear stories of how the animals came to be at Winslow Farm. Afterward, play on the enchanted playground. Please bring a can of cat food, a roll of paper towels, or birdseed to donate to the animal sanctuary. The grounds are stroller accessible. Rain date Saturday, June 8, 12-1:30pm. For more information, contact south@jccgb.org or 781-795-0510.
Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, Thursday, June 6 (7:30pm) Around the world and across the generations, Jews see themselves, present themselves, and are seen by others in new ways. Leading the discusion on this provocative topic will be: James Carroll, a distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Suffolk University, holder of the 2011 Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair at Emory University, and a columnist for the Boston Globe. He is an award-winning author of ten novels and six works of non-fiction, including Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World. Carroll is a recent recipient of the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for Commentary. Abigail Pogrebin, a Yale graduate and author of Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk about Being Jewish. She has served as a producer for CBS News’ 60 Minutes. She has also written for New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, and Harper’s Bazaar. Margot Stern Strom is the Executive Director of Facing History and Ourselves, an organization that combats racism, anti-Semitism and prejudice and promotes democracy through education programs worldwide. She has enabled millions of students to study the Holocaust, to investigate root causes of racism, anti-Semitism and violence, and to realize their obligations and capabilities as citizens in a democracy. She has taught social studies at the Runkle School in Brookline and has studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Hot Buttons, Cool Conversations is conceived and produced in collaboration with Leonard Fein, who will moderate the forum. The founding editor of Moment Magazine and Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger, Fein's 900+ essays, articles and columns have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation and The Jewish Daily Forward. Hot Buttons, Cool Conversations is a program of the Ryna Greenbaum JCC Center for the Arts. Hot Buttons, Cool Conversations is underwritten by The Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation with additional donor support from Carolynn H. Levy and Alan Sharaf.
Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, Thursday, June 6 (7:30pm)
Leventhal-Sidman JCC West Lawn, Sunday, June 9, 2013 10-11:30am Designed for families with children ages 2-6 years Celebrate five years of PJ Library in Greater Boston with the JCC and CJP. Enjoy an DJ with games and dancing, bouncy houses, face painting, crafts and a special birthday concert with Josh and the Jamtones. Pre-registration required and by doing so, you will be entered in a drawing to win exciting prizes. In case of inclement weather, this event will be indoors with limited availability. Please pre-register to ensure your space. PJ Library, a program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, is a gift from the JCCs of Greater Boston with generous support from CJP and valued community partners such as Congregation Or Atid, Temple Emanuel and Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston. For more information, contact pjlibrary@jccgb.org or 617-558-6587.
Leventhal-Sidman JCC West Lawn, Sunday, June 9, 2013 10-11:30am
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 9-10am Designed for families with children ages 6 weeks-5 years The Bernice B. Godine JCC Early Learning Center preschool at the Leventhal-Sidman JCC in Newton will hold an open house for parents of infants, toddlers and preschool age children on Wednesday, June 12. Parents can meet the educators and the school’s director, tour the classrooms and register for summer 2013 or the fall 2013-2014 school year. The school accepts children ages 6 weeks to 5 years of age. Options include flexible hours and days with full week or part week options, full year and school year programs, early drop-off and extended day, swimming lessons and optional in-house enrichment classes. The school is open to the entire community. For more information, contact 617-558-6420 or newton-elc@jccgb.org
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 9-10am
Designed for families with children ages 6 weeks-5 years The Bernice B. Godine JCC Early Learning Center preschool at the Leventhal-Sidman JCC in Newton will hold an open house for parents of infants, toddlers and preschool age children on Wednesday, June 12. Parents can meet the educators and the school’s director, tour the classrooms and register for summer 2013 or the fall 2013-2014 school year. The school accepts children ages 6 weeks to 5 years of age. Options include flexible hours and days with full week or part week options, full year and school year programs, early drop-off and extended day, swimming lessons and optional in-house enrichment classes. The school is open to the entire community. For more information, contact 617-558-6420 or newton-elc@jccgb.org
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Tennis lessons, camps and classes all summer with USPTA tennis pro and JCC tennis director Doug Maynard. For details, contact 617-558-6453 or sports@jccgb.org.