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September
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9
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Thursday
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Rosh Hashana Ceremony - 11:00 AM - Rutgers Prep.
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12
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Sunday
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Open House, 11:00 AM — 12:30 PM, Rutgers Prep (Call 732-545-9691 for
directions and further information.)
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18
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Saturday
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Yom Kippur Ceremony
- 11:00 AM - Rutgers Prep.
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19
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Sunday
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(Class 1)
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Opening Ceremony/Parent
Orientation
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26
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Sunday
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(Class 2)
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Sukkot Celebration - 11:00 AM - Rutgers Prep.
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October
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2
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Saturday
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(Class 3)
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A Better World Is In Our Hands
– Service Learning Day – Workmen’s Circle
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10
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Sunday
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(Class 4)
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Adult Yiddish Class: First meeting to discuss framework
for the year – 9:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
Adult Program: Some
brainstorming to gather ideas for the year's Sunday morning
programs. 10:30 AM at Rutgers
Prep.
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Sunday
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(Class 5)
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Adult Program: “God, Spirituality and Secular
Judaism” - As Jews, be we secular or religious - or anything in between -
we almost definitively question not only that in which we do not believe,
but that in which we do. Whatever
your thoughts are on the topic, though, they are welcome, so bring them
along to this Sunday's adult programming session, facilitated by Peretz
no-goodnik Danny Adlerman. Differences of opinion and grievances
welcome . . . but only if you play nice.
10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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Friday evening
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Adult Program: “The Two State Solution and You” - A
presentation by Mark Streitman, Outreach Coordinator for J Street Central
Jersey - The political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans” – 8 PM
at the Reformed Church of Highland Park, 19-21 S. 2nd Ave., Highland
Park.
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Sunday
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(Class 6)
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Adult Program: “Bonhoeffer” - A 60-minute
version of the original documentary film on Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
the German theologian and Nazi resistor who joined the plots to kill
Adolf Hitler. He was executed by
the Nazis only weeks before the end of World War II, at the age of
39. Bonhoeffer
challenged this church to stand with the Jews in their time of need. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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Sunday
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(Class 7)
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Adult Program: “Our Personal Connections to Israel” Peretz Member
Bill Swift will facilitate a discussion that will focus on our personal
connections to Israel. This is not
a political debate, but a time to reflect on our individual feelings. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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November
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7
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Sunday
morning
Sunday afternoon
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(Class 8)
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Adult Program: "Bar and Bat Mitzvah in a
Secular-Humanistic Community" - a presentation by Ira Mintz, I. L
Peretz President. This annual
program will address the many options one has in celebrating this rite of
passage into young adulthood. A
Bar or Bat Mitzvah can be a very special opportunity to explore how to
make our Jewishness relevant to ourselves and
our children. 10:30 AM at Rutgers
Prep.
Adult Program: Movie and Dinner at the Rutgers New
Jersey Jewish Film Festival - "Ahead of Time" at 3:15 PM at the
Regal Theater in North Brunswick.
As an
extraordinary international foreign correspondent and photojournalist,
Ruth Gruber wrote reports that helped rouse the conscience of the world.
Over the course of her seventy-year career, she escorted Holocaust
refugees to America in 1944 as part of a covert mission, covered the
Nuremberg trials, and had unique access to world leaders, including Eleanor
Roosevelt and David Ben-Gurion.
The show will
likely sell out, so get your tickets in advance here. After the film, you are invited to
travel just north on Route 1 to the Omega Diner to have dinner together
and discuss the film.
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14
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Sunday
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(Class 9)
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Classroom Visitation
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21
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Sunday
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(Class 10)
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Children - Latke Making
Coat Drive
Adult Program: Viewers’ Choice DVD - "From
Swastika to Jim Crow," "Second Avenue From Hitler to
Hollywood," or "Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of
Hannah Senesh" 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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Sunday
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Thanksgiving weekend — no school
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December
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3
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Friday Evening
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11th Annual Chanukah Party for
the adult members of the entire Peretz Community
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5
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Sunday
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(Class 11)
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Chanukah Celebration - 11 AM
at Rutgers Prep.
Annual Coat Drive
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12
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Sunday
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(Class 12)
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Adult Program: “The
History of the Jews of India” – A presentation by Johannes Corley. The history of the Jews of India,
legends about their origins and survival over the centuries, and how some
of these legends stand up to modern science/DNA studies will be presented
along with a discussion of some of the writings by ancient Jewish and
non-Jewish scholars about the Jews of India. In addition, some of the Bene-Israel culture, traditions, and Jewish life in
India from ancient to modern days will be presented. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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Sunday
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(Class 13)
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Adult Program: HIV: Abroad and at home” – A
Presentation by Beryl Koblin. An overview of the HIV epidemic around the
world, in the US and here in New Jersey, the latest advances in HIV prevention
strategies, and charitable organizations dedicated to HIV prevention and
treatment. Beryl Koblin, PhD is an
epidemiologist at the New York Blood Center and head of Project ACHIEVE,
a community-based research program in New York City conducting studies on
the epidemiology of HIV infection and testing strategies to prevent HIV
infection. 10:30 AM at Rutgers
Prep.
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26
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Sunday
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Winter Break - no school
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January
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2
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Sunday
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Winter Break - no school
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9
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Sunday
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(Class 14)
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A Visit from
the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism Sunday School in honor of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. 9:30 AM at
Rutgers Prep.
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14
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Friday Evening
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Adult Program: “An Evening of Storytelling”
- Gerald Fierst is one of America’s most
acclaimed storytellers. As a performer, he has appeared throughout the
US, in Europe, and in Asia, telling original stories, stories from his
own Jewish tradition, and stories from world folklore; as a writer and
teacher, he has worked for school systems and universities across the US,
leading workshops for teachers and students in writing and
performance. He has served as a
Co-director of the MidAtlantic Storytellers’
Gathering, as a member of the board of The New York Storytelling Center,
and as artistic director of the Jewish Storytelling Center at the 92nd St
Y in NYC. 8 PM at the Reformed
Church of Highland Park, 19-21 S. 2nd Ave., Highland Park.
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16
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Sunday
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(Class 15)
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Adult Program: “The
Long Journey: A Daughter in Search of Her Father and Herself” - Zeva Greendale's father went to Soviet Russia in 1930
and was last heard of in 1936. Zeva and Kolya Borodulin
will tell a fascinating story of their search of Zeva's
father. Zeva
will share her personal story as well.
10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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23
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Sunday
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(Class 16)
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Tu B'Shevat Celebration
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30
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Sunday
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(Class 17)
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Adult Program: "Blessed Is the Match: The Life
and Death of Hannah Senesh.” Narrated by Joan Allen, this acclaimed
documentary follows young poet Hannah Senesh's
heroic WWII mission to rescue Jews in Hungary, as well as her mother's
battle to save her daughter. The
documentary illuminates the story of Hannah Senesh,
a Hungarian Jew who was living safely in Palestine in 1944 but made the
brave--and fatal--choice to return to Europe. As a paratrooper and resistance
fighter, the poet Senesh eventually gave her
life in her goal of saving her fellow Jews from the Nazis. With help from
the Senesh family and their archives, BLESSED
IS THE MATCH recounts Senesh's amazing
life. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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February
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6
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Sunday
Sunday afternoon
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(Class 18)
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Adult Program: Hero/Criminal, Martyr/Terrorist,
Freedom Fighter/Insurgent
What makes a
hero? Deep conviction can lead to
self-sacrifice and/or acts of terrorism.
What is the role of moral certainty in heroic behavior? Is it good or bad?
Is it a
necessary motivation? A group
discussion facilitated by Peretz member Susan London. Differences of opinion and grievances
welcome. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
After the
Sunday School Program, the children will be going to the Martin &
Edith Stein Assisted Living Residence to perform. There will be pizza after school, and
then a car caravan to the Assisted Living Facility about 2 or 3 miles
away on Demott Lane.
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11
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Friday Evening
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Adult Program: “From Shtetl
Tochters to Ghetto Girls: The Transformation of
Jewish Women on the Lower East Side” – A presentation by Leslie Fishbein, Ph.D.,
Associate
Professor, American Studies and Jewish Studies at Rutgers
University.
Life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe prepared Jewish women well
for life in the New World. In the shtetls they worked to support their families, spoke
the native language as well as Yiddish, were familiar with the
marketplace and interacted with gentiles.
This lecture explores how in America these women profited from enhanced
economic opportunities but suffered greater instability in their personal
lives. 8 PM at the Reformed
Church of Highland Park, 19-21 S. 2nd Ave., Highland Park.
This program
is offered through the Horizon Speakers Bureau of the New Jersey Council
for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
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Sunday
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(Class 19)
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Adult Program: "Theory of Melody Through a Look
at Jewish Song" – A presentation by Peretz parent and musician Ken
Schmidt. Ken will speak about the attributes
of melody in tonal music, using examples from traditional Jewish songs
and popular songs of the great Jewish-American song-writers. Examples
will be presented in "letter notation"--so the ability to read
music is not required. The only
pre-requisite is a love of music and an intellectual curiosity as to the
nature of melody. 10:30 AM at
Rutgers Prep.
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20
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Sunday
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(Class 20)
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Adult
Program: “From Shtetl to Swing” - Fleeing persecution
in Russia and Eastern Europe between 1880 and 1924, more than 2.5 million
Jews left their small towns, or shtetls, behind
and embarked for a new land -- America.
A host of kids from New York City's Lower East Side -- Irving
Berlin, George Gershwin, Sophie Tucker, Molly Picon,
Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice, The Marx Brothers, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw,
and many others -- grew up to capitalize on a vast heritage of Yiddish
music and culture, taking 20th-century American entertainment on a
musical joyride. Hosted by actor
and playwright Harvey Fierstein, written and
directed by Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir,
the documentary film, “From Shtetl to Swing”
tells the story of the cross-pollination of Jewish and African-American
musical influences, two traditions born out of exile and longing, yet
charged with an energy and freedom that gave voice to a new multicultural
America. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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Sunday
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(Class 21)
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Adult Program:
"Healthcare - A Year Later" – A presentation by Joel
Cantor, Sc.D., Director of the Center for State Health Policy and
Professor of Public Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein
School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, the State University of
New Jersey.
The March
2010 enactment of national health reform did not end debate about the
future of health care. Joel Cantor
will provide an update on the implementation of the Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act, discuss legislative and
legal challenges to the law by its opponents, and separate myth from
reality in the rhetoric about the law.
10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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March
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6
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Sunday
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(Class 22)
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Adult Program:
“Religulous” - Politically provocative
talk show host Bill Maher skewers the current state of organized religion
in this hot-button documentary that derives its title from a blend of the
words "religion" and "ridiculous." Making stops in
Jerusalem, the Vatican and other holy destinations, Maher travels the
world to talk to believers from a variety of faiths to find out why
they're so sure their religion is right -- and why they're so certain
others are wrong. 10:30 AM at
Rutgers Prep.
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Friday Evening
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Adult Program:
“Women, Jews, and Art” – A presentation by Professor Judith
Brodsky. In the fall of 2010, the
Jewish Museum mounted an exhibition of work by women artists called
Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism. The commonly held belief is
that there is no Jewish art because of the stricture against graven
images. Actually there is Jewish
art of many different kinds depending on the era and the geography. Today, after a generation of Jewish
artists like Mark Rothko or Barnet Newman who shied away from any Jewish
imagery, many in the contemporary generation, particularly Jewish women
artists, embrace Jewish imagery as a primary source of content. It's a fascinating reversal. In this talk, Judith Brodsky, professor
emerita, Department of Visual Arts, Mason Gross
School of the Arts, founding director of the Brodsky Center for
Innovative Editions at Rutgers as well as co-founder of the Rutgers
Institute for Women and Art, will show images of art by contemporary
Jewish women artists and explain the origins of their involvement in
their Jewish heritage. 8 PM at the Reformed
Church of Highland Park, 19-21 S. 2nd Ave., Highland Park.
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Sunday
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(Class 23)
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Adult Program:
"538 Ways to Live, Work and Play Like a Liberal" – A
presentation by Justin Krebs will focus on a collection of little steps
to reflect liberal values in your everyday life, and a discussion of the
bigger question of what it means to be a "liberal" in American
today. Author Justin Krebs is the
founder of Living Liberally, a national network of over 250 social clubs
that create communities around progressive politics across the country.
Best known for "Drinking Liberally" happy hours, Living
Liberally has been featured in the New York Times, lampooned on The Daily
Show and frequently mentioned on public and progressive radio coast-to-coast. Justin is a native of Highland Park, a
graduate of Harvard and resides in Brooklyn. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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Sunday
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(Class 24)
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Purim Celebration: 10:30 AM at Rutgers
Prep. Please bring canned food for
our Food Drive
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Sunday
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(Class 25)
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Adult Program: “The Israeli-Palestinian Women’s
Peace Movement” – A presentation by Sherry Gorelick,
retired associate professor of sociology and women’s studies at Rutgers
University. She is the author of
City College and the Jewish Poor and articles on Jewish subjects. She has
lectured on Jewish feminism, the Israeli/Palestinian women’s peace
movement and related topics. She was an observer at meetings of the
Israeli/Palestinian women’s peace movement and at the historic Women’s
International Conference for Israeli/Palestinian Peace at Geneva,
Switzerland, in May 1991. 10:30 AM
at Rutgers Prep.
School
Visiting Day – 9:30 AM at Rutgers Prep. Flyer.
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April
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3
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Sunday
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(Class 26)
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Membership
Meeting – Board Nominations 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
School
Visiting Day – 9:30 AM at Rutgers Prep. Flyer.
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10
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Sunday
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(Class 27)
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Regular classes in the
morning; Community Seder at 3
PM at Rutgers Prep. For reservations, see the form here.
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Sunday
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(Class 28)
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Adult Program:
“Hunger – Here and There” – At Yom Kippur, we promised to continue
our discussion of world hunger with an educational program. We are fortunate to have Lisanne Finston, Executive
Director of Elijah's Promise come to speak to us about hunger locally and
globally. From a small soup
kitchen serving meals to a multi-program agency that helps move people
out of poverty, Elijah’s Promise uses food as a tool to feed people,
train people and employ people in the work of ending hunger. The agency’s
mission is simple: to empower lives, invite justice, and alleviate
hunger. 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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24
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Sunday
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No school - Spring Break
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May
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1
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Sunday
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(Class 29)
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Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony – 11:30 AM
at Rutgers Prep.
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8
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Sunday
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(Class 30)
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Peretz Board
Elections – 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
After the
election there will be an important discussion about our school's
commitment to social action and what next year's parent/child obligations
should be.
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15
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Sunday
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(Class 31)
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Graduation/Closing
Ceremony – 10:30 AM at Rutgers Prep.
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June
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10-12
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Weekend
retreat at Stokes State Forest
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July
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