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Outstanding student volunteers receive AJC Lazarus awards
Active volunteers from 43 high schools, who campaign for good causes and organize their classmates in compassionate service, received American Jewish Committee’s 47th annual Simon Lazarus Jr. Human Relations Awards. AJC presented the awards on May 9 at Rockdale Temple. Seth Schwartz, chair of AJC’s Lazarus Awards committee, says, “These students have big hearts and [ Read More...]
Jewish learning taken to a higher power at JCC, May 20
“Let My People Know,” a dynamic afternoon of Jewish learning, explores modern day issues through the prism of Judaism at the Mayerson JCC on Sunday, May 20. The afternoon begins at 1 p.m. and is packed with engaging workshops, acclaimed speakers and lively conversation. Dr. Hal M. Lewis, nationally celebrated educator, author and speaker, will [ Read More...]
JCC Helping Hands Fund in memory of Jackie Sachs keeps legacy alive
Helping Hands Fund in memory of Jackie Sachs
JCC presents ‘Let My People Know’ workshops and speakers, May 20
“Let My People Know” FREE day of learning
The Inaugural Institute of SCRJ at HUC Jerusalem
In May 2011, The Society for Classical Reform Judaism held its first Institute at Cincinnati’s Hebrew Union College. It marked a culmination of scholarships and programs to enable the students to encounter and experience the Classical Reform tradition as a resource for their own personal spiritual development and their emerging visions of the rabbinates. Before [ Read More...]
Northern Hills Hazak focuses on Israel
“The Jewish State or the State of the Jews: Reflections on Israel’s Independence” will be the topic when Northern Hills Synagogue – Congregation B’nai Avraham holds its monthly HaZaK program for seniors on Wednesday, May 16. The featured speaker will be Yair Cohen, community shaliah. The program will take place at the synagogue, and begin at [ Read More...]
WRJ Central District visits HUC Cincinnati
Over 60 women from the Women of Reform Judaism Central District, representing 20 Reform Congregation affiliates from Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan and Tennessee, gathered in Cincinnati April 27-29 to conduct business and participate in a program called “Your Heritage—Your Community.” The weekend began Friday night at Rockdale Temple with an amazing Rock Shabbat led by [ Read More...]
Jewish teens get tough on bullying, and they’re not backing down
Members of Cincinnati’s BBYO youth group are fed up, and they’re not going to take it anymore! This year, over 13 million American kids will be bullied at school, online, on the bus, at home, through their cell phones and on the streets of their towns, making it the most common form of violence young [ Read More...]
Judge Heather Stein Russell speaks at Hadassah Coffee Talk
The community is invited to attend Cincinnati Chapter of Hadassah’s final Coffee Talk/Decaf Café of the season on Monday, May 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Stephanie Gilinsky. Judge Heather Stein Russell will be the featured speaker on “Hadassah and Hamilton County: Healing, Helping and Empowering Women.” She will show how the Hamilton County [ Read More...]
Be part of the JCC Adams Golf Classic and Tennis Open
The Mayerson JCC is honoring the 1966 World Champion Flame Club Basketball Team and Coach Rod McKinley at the 18 Annual JCC Adams Golf Classic and Tennis Open on Thursday, June 7 at Losantiville Country Club. The JCC is honoring the 1966 Flame Club that won the Pan American Maccabiah Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil [ Read More...]
