JCCs Deal With Jewish Family Life Education
NEW YORK, N.Y. - “To-
day, when family
cohesiveness is threatened
as never before in a mobile
civilization, when divorce is
up and the one-parent family
has become commonplace,
family members of all ages
have a real need to discover
the Jewish values that have
sustained us as a people.”
So states an excerpt from
the introduction to JWB Cir
cle’s special theme section,
“At the Jewish Community
Center: Family Life Educa
tion,” in the Winter, 1983
edition just off the press.
The theme section poses
three vital questions:
1) How does the Jewish
Community Center today
help the education of the
Jewish family?
2) What role does it (the
JCC and YM-YWHA) play
in strengthening Jewish con
sciousness among family
members?
3) What programs have
proved effective in deepen
ing Jewish awareness and
bolstering Jewish family
life?
What follows are
answers—answers provided
in six pithy reports from
Centers—two from New
York and Columbus, Ohio,
and one each from Tenafly,
N.J., and Boston.
The 92nd Street Y in
Manhattan contributes its
experience with a special
pilot project dealing with the
many and complex aspects
of being a Jewish parent —
“A Parenting Center.’ ’
From the YM-YWHA of
Mid-Westchester in
Scarsdale, N.Y., there is a
lively description of a whole
range of programs—classes,
lectures, workshops, Jewish
cultural activities dealing
with family life and develop
ment ranging from the pro
blems mothers share in
relating to their newborn to
programs dealing with
youth, maturity and old
age— “Meeting New Life-
Stytes.”
And, speaking of old age,
the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center in Columbus (Ohio),
presents two short but
thought-provoking accounts
of life’s traumatic
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Cover photo from the Winter Issue, 1983, of JWB CIRCLE
just off the press speaks votimes. The smile on the face of
this baby at the parenting center of the 92nd Street Y sets the
tone for the edition's theme section: '*At The Jewish Com-
m unity Center: Family Life Education. ”
crossroads—“Dealing Witli
Death and Divorce” and
“Aging—Two Sides of the
Coin.”
From the JCC on the
Palisades (Tenafly, N.J.),
JWB Circle readers learn
that workshops—“Exercises
in Jewish Awareness”—
have served as a catalyst to
bring Jewish residents of all
ages together to discuss com
mon problems and concerns.
From the South Area
branch of the JCC in Greater
Boston comes a narrative of
Yiddishkeit, a report on
Jewish family life as enrich
ed by children through the
“Let’s Celebrate” program.
South Area’s “Let's
Celebrate” creates a real
understanding of the Jewish
holidays and the part they
play in developing warm
family feelings and a sense
of seasonal joys and
memories.
“The simple act of learn
ing how to make jelly
doughnuts (sufganiot) for
Hanukkah and the more
complex one of assembling a
Haggadah that has special
meanings for a specific fami
ly,” JWB Circle’s theme
states, “are among the ways
parents...are learning how to
inspire a life of Judaism in
their families through our
‘Let’s Celebrate’ program.”
JWB Circle is a bimonthly
magazine which serves both
as the voice of JWB, the cen
tral address and service
agency for the Jewish Com
munity movement of North
America, and as the publica
tion reporting upon the ways
Centers today strive to meet
the needs of the Jewish com
munity contributing to the
preservation of perpetuation
of Jewish tradition, heritage
and continuity.
JWB is the network of and
central service agency for
JCCs, YM & YWHAs, and
camps in the U.S. and
Canada, serving one million
Jews. At the same time,
JWB is the agency ac
credited by the U.S. govern
ment to serve the religious,
Jewish educational and
moral needs of Jewish
military personnel, their
families, and hospitalized
VA patients.
JWB is supported by
Jewish Federations, the
UJ A-Federation Campaign
of Greater New York, Jewish
Community Centers and YM
& YWHAs, and JWB
Associates.
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Paga 1S-THE NEWS-April, 1983
Israeli Students To
Visit Charlotte
Each year Charlotte is one
of the host cities for Israeli
students. This year from
April 10 to April 17 Yael
Fuchs and Eedo Lifshitz will
get acquainted with our city
and also tell others about
Israel. Their biographies
follow:
My name is Yael Fuchs. I
was born in 1966 in Haifa,
Israel. I’m a real “Sabres”'
according to the fact that my
parents were born in Israel
too. I grew up in a very nice
neighborhood on the Carmel
mountain, called Nave-
Shaanan. When I was six
years old I started to go to
the elementary school, and»
later at twelve I started to
learn at the high school
These two schools are in my
neighborhood. My main sub
jects at school are - Biology,
Chemistry and
Mathematics.
Now we come to my hob
bies and social activities.
Usually I’m very busy in
the afternoon but I try also
to find time to be at home
with my family. I’m a
member of a youth-
movement since I was 11
years old. Now it’s my se
cond year in being a group-
leader of a group of young
teenagers (13*14 years old).
My best friends are in the
youth-movement and we
spend a lot of time together.
I’m also a member in a band
of teenagers from the
neighborhood. We sing,
dance and play - I am play
ing the flute. (Till two years
ago I was a member of the
“Haifa youth band” - it’s
like an orchestra of
children). I like reading
books, going to a cinema or
theatre, listening to records
and touring the country
usually by walking.
I think a lot about trying to
live in a Kibutz, and I can do
it in a special way at the ar-
my, which is called
“Nachal,” but I still have
one and a half years to learn
at school and to make the
“finishing examination,”
and only then I’ll go to the
army. So, I still have a lot of
time to think and decide
what I am going to do with
my life.
My name is Eedo Lifshitz
and I was born July 26, 1966
in Haifa, Israel. My educa
tion is: 1972-78 Elementary
School - “Reali,” Haifa,
1978-79 Seventh Grade, Jor
dan Junior High School in
Palo Alto, California. 1979-
83 High School - “Reali,”
Haifa (cum laude).
My hobbies are wind surf
ing, skiing, swimming, ten
nis, and stamp collecting.
I am the second child in a
family of four sons. My
father works at the Technion
- Israel Institute of
Technology as a faculty
member in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering,
and my mother is a part-time
teacher of English in a junior
high school in Haifa.
At the age of five I went
with my parents for one year
to Chicago, where my father
spent his sabbatical leave at
the Illinois Institute of
Technology. Upon our
return, at the age of six, 1
entered the first grade of the
“Reali” School in Haifa,
where I am still a student.
At the age of twelve we
went for another sabbatical
leave and this time we lived
in Palo Alto, Ca., where I at
tended the local Jordan
Junior High School. I am
now taking the Mathematics-
Science option and am due to
graduate next year, 1984.
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