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Wouldn’t it be great if post B’nai Mitzvah students could pay it forward by helping prepare the next B’nai Mitzvah class? Thanks to Cantor Shana, that idea is now a reality. She has brought back some of the recent B’nai Mitzvah of our congregation and created a program called Torah Tutors. Each of us is Continue Reading »
Wednesday evening Torah Trope Class Learn to chant Torah — it’s easier than you think and it’s excellent brain exercise! Summer is a great time to learn this new skill. Join us for summer Torah Trope classes on Wednesday evenings, and become a part of the team of regular or occasional Torah readers the congregation Continue Reading »
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Reviewed * Debbie: date * Fran: 3/20 Heidi and Edward Fleischman warmly invite the congregation of Morristown Jewish Center Beit Yisrael to join them as their daughter, Anna Elise Fleischman, is called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah on May 16, 2015. Anna is a seventh-grade honor student at Frelinghuysen Middle School (FMS) in Continue Reading »
Celeste Reingold and Linda Kornreich: A Lasting Friendship Made Here at MJCBY Linda Kornreich, her husband, Larry, and their growing family moved to Morristown area in the late 1970s and joined MJCBY. She and Larry figured this would be a great way to meet new people. “I remember everyone being so warm and friendly and Continue Reading »
Similar to their moms and like many other members of their families, high-school juniors Hannah Benton and Alison Fleischman traveled to Israel this past summer. Their trip, not unlike the same one their moms took when they were teenagers, resulted in many new friends, a richer sense of their own Jewish identities and a deepening Continue Reading »
by Carl B. Scherzer The year 1654 marks the beginning of American Jewry, for in September of that year a group of twenty-three bedraggled and virtually penniless Sephardic Jews arrived at New Amsterdam from Recife, Brazil, aboard the boat St. Charles, often called the “Jewish Mayflower.” (The first Jewish settler recorded in Manhattan was a Continue Reading »
Mazel Tov to Minyonaire officers who were installed on Minyonaires Shabbat Saturday, September 20th. Daniel Rubin and Justin Sontupe Co-Presidents Alison Fleishman, Sarah Kane, Shane Perlow, Sarah Sontupe, Sam Wanatick Vice Presidents For a list of Minyonaire Shabbats for the year 2014-2015 see the Minyonaires Page on the website. https://www.mjcby.org/community/youth/minyonaires/
World Wide Anti- Semitism Today- Standing strong as a Jewish Community Rabbi David Nesson Morristown Jewish Center July 2014 The events of the last several weeks, the last several days, the last several hours, have been on the minds of all of us who love Israel as the homeland of our people. The news that Continue Reading »
On Friday, June 6, MJCBY experienced its first “Storahtelling.” Written and directed by Rabbi Amy Joy Small, with coordination assistance from Ellen Nesson, this event was part of a growing trend to recreate the storytelling of Torah that was formerly common during Second Temple days. About 2,500 years ago, the Torah was acted out on Continue Reading »
