The Voice of Israel Concert Thurs., Nov. 19 – 7:30 p.m. Since meeting on Israel’s reality television show, The Voice, Maytal Michaeli and Etzion Mayer have developed both a friendship and artistic relationship that has resulted in beautiful music about Jewish identity and life for young people in Israel.
Valley of the Sun JCC – 12701 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale 85254
Cost: $15 per person. For tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-voice-of-israel-concert-tickets-17886332502
Sponsored by the Israel Center
for more information email shahare@vosjcc.org.
This year’s Bisbee Film Fest features the film Streit’s Matzo and the American Dream prior to its 2016 national theatrical release.
The film is being shown on Friday, November 20 @ 1pm at the Bisbee Woman’s Club. Tickets are free and can be reserved at www.bisbeefilmfestival.org.
Here is the film synopsis:
The Lower East Side of Manhattan was once home to a huge Jewish immigrant population. In 1925, Aron Streit opened Streit’s Matzo to serve the community. Today, the Lower East Side is rapidly gentrifying, and Streit’s is the only family-owned matzo business left in the US — providing 40 percent of the nation’s matzo. This documentary takes a step back in time, introducing viewers to the fifth generation of the Streit family and their business housed in four, low slung tenement buildings with no loading dock whose employees are part of the “family.” It provides of a vision of the Lower East Side then and now, and shows how this family business struggles to survive in modern New York City and with the decision of whether to move or stay in its ancestral home.
This interactive and upbeat Shabbat celebration for families incorporates fun-spirited melodies and family-themed activities. We’ll share Shabbat dinner, followed by Open Lounge in the Youth Center with games and fun. Come celebrate Shabbat with ruach (spirit) and your congregational family! Dinner $25 per family (two adults & up to 4 children) and/or adults (13+) $10 per person. RSVP needed by Nov. 16.
The J’s fun-filled kids nights allow parents to enjoy special time while their children have fun with friends enjoying dinner, games, a movie and build-your-own sundaes. Grades K-5. Members $20, Non-members: $30. For more information contact 480-483-7121 ext. 1275 or youth@vosjcc.org
Join other Jewish young families for our first Schmooze Young Families event! Couples with children, single parents, foster parents, etc. are all welcome. The event will be a kosher brunch with plenty of fun activities for kids including a clown, balloon making, face painting, parachute games, and much more! Please note that this will take place at the Cactus Park location at the northeast corner of Cactus and Scottsdale Road.
You can RSVP for this event through the Facebook event page or Meetup event page.
This Schmooze event is being generously sponsored by the Dana Cheryl Beitscher Charitable Foundation.
Join Beth El Congregation’s Talmud Torah (religious school) in our yearly mitzvah of donating turkeys to the less fortunate. We will collect frozen turkeys and pass them around our Turkey Train Volunteer Line as we load them into donation bins.
- Help us to meet our goal to collect 50 turkeys by bringing your donation to Beth El on Sunday, November 22. Kosher and non-kosher turkeys will be accepted.
- Turkeys will be donated to our community partners at ICM Food & Clothing Bank, UMOM, and Circle the City where they will benefit the less fortunate in our community.
- Monetary donations will be accepted as well.
For more information, please contact Nanci at 602-944-3359 ext. 123 or nsiegelmanson@bethelphoenix.com.
HANUKKAH program
RSVP to Bobbi at bobbisein@gmail.com or 480.991.6003 — OR — Rochelle at rochelle42c@q.com or 480.998.4468.
The book is The Museum of Extraordinary Things: A Novel by Alice Hoffman.
To RSVP and for location, contact Susi at susido@aol.com or 480.659.0680.