Wednesdays, 4:00-5:00 PM Facilitated by Rabbi Fredi Cooper, EdD and Irene McHenry, PhD Support group for GJC congregants who have health conditions that make them feel especially vulnerable during this current time. Fredi Cooper is a retired rabbi, teacher, therapist, mother, wife and friend, and mentor. Her passion both inside and outside of the Jewish
The Zohar, the heart of Kabbalah, is the source of the Tikkun Leil Shavuot, the all-night study session before we receive the Torah on Shavuot. In preparation for understanding what this session was actually about, we’ll do a brief introduction to Zohar and the Sefirot (the inner aspects of the Divine) and then examine a
Facilitated by Ann Itzkowitz, MA and Richard S. Stern, PhD A support group for sharing stories and strategies about the joys and challenges of parenting and caring for adolescents when spending so much time at home. We’ll explore the challenges of work versus family life boundaries, discipline, family fun and activities, chores, moods, emotional climate,
HAZAK programs are planned for our seniors (age 55+) and are geared to both reflect common interests and get us to “stretch” to try new activities as well. This well-attended book group meets monthly all year long on the second Wednesday of the month to discuss great books over tea and nosh. May's book selection
Please join us - it's good to connect! GJC's family retreat community is hosting a virtual Family Havdalah via Zoom. It will be a chance for kids and parents to be in community, even virtually, as we mark the transition from Shabbat. Come light your candle with us! This week the Family Havdalah is led
Without A, B & O, the Red Cross can't save anyone. You are the #MissingType they need! Make your appointment early, as blood drive participant slots have been filling up quickly! We encourage you to use Rapid Pass (www.redcrossblood.org/rapidpass); this will help cut down the time people are waiting together to be checked in*. Don't
Mazal tov to the Confirmation class of 2020! If you need the Zoom link for the Confirmation Presentation, please contact Education Director Ben Rotenberg for class links at educator@germantownjewishcentre.org.
Register Here Mondays, 2:30-3:15 PM Facilitated by Linda Hahn and Rabbi Dayle Friedman A supportive setting for participants to express, explore, better understand, and gain more perspective on the feelings and reactions around care and responsibility for aging parents. We gather now, in light of increased stress due to the added health risks and increased
The United States’ role in saving Europe’s intellectual elite from the Nazis is often told as a tale of triumph, which in many ways it was. America welcomed Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse, Rudolf Carnap, and Richard Courant, among hundreds of other physicists, philosophers, mathematicians, historians, chemists, and linguists who
