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Remembering Dan Granek

May his memory be for a blessing

Dan Granek, Past President (2017-2019) of the New York Metro Region of the Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs, passed away on Sunday, September 24, 2023.


Dan was Past President of the North Shore Jewish Center Men's Club and member of the International Executive Committee of FJMC.


Dan is survived by wife, Vicki and daughter, Amanda.


"Dan always wanted to contribute; often behind the scenes. He will be sorely missed by all who were privileged to know him, both within FJMC and by his family, friends, with those he shared his career..."

- Alan Budman, FJMC International President


Read Dan's bio and learn more about this incredible man!


"May his memory be for a blessing."

Thought of the Day

Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.

― Tom Robbins, American Novelist

Men's Mental Health

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988

Steven Mandel MD

Heidi Mandel PhD, LMSW, DPM


Every 11 minutes, someone dies by suicide in the United States. There has been an increase of 36% between 2000 and 2021. Last year, 50,000 people died by suicide in the US.


Depression is the most common cause of suicide. Additional causes include anxiety disorders, serious health conditions, prolonged stress, substance use disorder, unemployment, bipolar, personality disorder, personality traits such as aggression, and many others.


988 is a toll free, and free confidential compassionate care service for people in a suicidal crisis, experiencing mental distress including substance abuse or just aren’t sure on where to turn. The service provides emotional support while reducing the distress and guiding health

decisions.


Hearing impaired and blind:

711 and 1-800-273-8255


Chatting: 988lifeline.org


The NY Metro FJMC encourages you to use this resource. Our goal should be to advocate by getting the word out to our synagogues – weekly bulletin and recourses.


Source: JAMA ; 330 (11), 1025-1028, 2023

"Imagine Life Series"

Out of the Darkness

Out of the Darkness

Community Walks



5K Walk at Jones Beach

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Jonathan, Beth and Josh Brody are joining hundreds of thousands of people across the country who are walking in the Out of the Darkness Community Walks to prevent suicide and support AFSP's mission to save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide.
The Community Walks, held in hundreds of communities across the country, are the core of the Out of the Darkness movement, which began in 2004. These events give people the courage to open up about their own connections to the cause, and a platform to create a culture that’s smarter about mental health. Friends, family members, neighbors and coworkers walk side-by-side, supporting each other and in memory of those we’ve lost.

5K Walk for Suicide Prevention


On Sunday October 22nd, Jonathan Brody, 2nd VP of Operations of the FJMC New York Metro 2023-25 Executive Committee, a member of Midway Jewish Center, and an FJMC Inclusion Committee member will be walking in support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.


Jonathan Brody, along with family and friends will be walking in the Out of the Darkness Community Walks on Sunday October 22nd to prevent suicide and support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP’) mission.


They will be joining hundreds of thousands of people across the country who are hoping to save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide.


Brody has personal experience, a family member lost her battle with depression and she committed suicide.


Brody turned to Judaism, family and his community when this unexpected tragedy occurred. I am grateful there is an inclusion initiative and committee, I am hoping that by being involved, I can make an impact.


Established in 1987, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is a voluntary health organization that gives those affected by suicide a nationwide community empowered by research, education and advocacy to take action against this leading cause of death.


AFSP is dedicated to saving lives and bringing hope to those affected by suicide, including those who have experienced a loss.


Click here for further information.

FJMC Keynote Series:

The Yom Kippur War: 50 Years Later

The Yom Kippur War:

50 Years Later


Wednesday, October 18, 2023

9pm Eastern

8pm Central

7pm Mountain

6pm Pacific

With special guest:

Capt. Marc D. Herwitz


MSC, USN Director, Maritime Headquarters, U.S. Navy Bureau Of Medicine and Surgery.

Read his bio


As the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War is observed in October, Marc Herwitz, a Senior U.S. Active Duty Service Member and War College Graduate, will present an analysis of the conflict that includes: the battle timeline, actions by regional and world leaders, as well as an understanding of major operational campaigns and the outcomes of the war.


Plan to join us on Wednesday, October 18, and register online now!

Register Now!

Around the Region

Simchat Torah

Plainview JC

95 Floral Drive West

Plainview, NY 11803 

www.plainviewjewishcenter.org

Phone: (516) 938-8610


FAMILY SIMCHAT TORAH CELEBRATION

Saturday, October 7 at 6:45pm

Music and Dancing with the Torah

Jelly Apple Goodies

Torah Roll – See how long it really is!!

Forest Hills JC

106-06 Queens Blvd

Forest Hills, NY 11375

www.fhjc.org

Phone: (718) 263-7000


Erev Simchat Torah

Saturday, October 7, 2023

7:15pm - 9pm


Simchat Torah

Sunday, October 8, 2023

9am - 12pm

Congregation L'Dor V'Dor

49-10 Little Neck Pkwy

Little Neck, NY 11362

www.olnjc.org

Phone: 718-224-0404


Simchat Torah Begins

Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 7pm

An evening of singing, dancing and rejoicing

in God's gift of the Torah to the Jewish People.


Simchat Torah Continues

Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 9am

The grand finale to the Fall Holiday Season.

Temple Israel of Great Neck

108 Old Mill Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

www.tign.org

(516) 482-7800


Simchat Torah Celebration in the Street


Saturday, October 7, 2023

at 7:15pm


This year we will take it to the street

on Old Mill Road in front of the synagogue!

Dix Hills Jewish Center

555 Vanderbilt Parkway

Dix Hills, NY 11746

www.dhjc.org

631.499.6644


Simchat Torah


Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 6pm

Amazing songs and celebrations


Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 9:30 am

Torah Dancing


All Services On-Site Attendance and Zoom

Midway JC

330 S. Oyster Bay Road

Syosset, NY 11791

www.mjc.org

Phone: (516) 938-8390


Nurturing Jewish Pathways:

Towards Jewish Radical Belonging


October 3, 17 & 24

November 7, 14 & 28

December 5


Course is free for MJC members!

$54 for non-members!

Register here!

Dix Hills Jewish Center

555 Vanderbilt Parkway

Dix Hills, NY 11746

www.dhjc.org

631.499.6644


Trivia Game Night


Saturday, October 14, 2023

8pm - Snacks & Drinks

8:30 pm - 10:30pm - Game Time


RSVP to executivedirector@dhjc.org

Congregation L'Dor V'Dor

49-10 Little Neck Pkwy

Little Neck, NY 11362

www.olnjc.org

Phone: 718-224-0404


Join Us For Our 75th Anniversary Extravaganza

Celebrating 75 years

of our synagogue's histories honoring



Dr. Alan Fein

Marc Figelman

Mark Hoffer


Sunday, October 15, 2023

at 6pm

RSVP Here!

Plainview JC

95 Floral Drive West

Plainview, NY 11803 

www.plainviewjewishcenter.org

Phone: (516) 938-8610


Plainview Jewish Center

Comedy Fundraiser Night


Thursday, November 9, 2023

Doors open at 6:30pm

Showtime at 8pm

Please arrive by 7:30pm

Tickets: $25



For tickets, contact Bruce Hymowitz

516-965-9770 or brucehymowitz@gmail.com

Upcoming Events to the Editor


If you have an article of interest, a special event happening at your Men's Club or other news for the New York Metro Region newsletter, please forward them to Lisa Pollack at assistant@fjmc.org

Around the Jewish World

The school, one of just two in New York City with roots in the Conservative movement, has just 63 students.

Facing declining enrollment, Schechter Manhattan to shutter at end of school year


(New York Jewish Week) — Schechter Manhattan, a Conservative Jewish elementary and middle school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, will close at the end of the school year. Schechter Manhattan will be planning and working towards joining forces with Rodeph Sholom School as of July 1, 2024, thereby ceasing operations as an independent entity on June 30, 2024...


Click here to read the article in its entirety.

A member of the Bnei Menashe community in northeastern India works to construct a temporary structure used in celebrating Sukkot. (Courtesy Shavei Israel)

Displaced by ethnic violence, India’s Bnei Menashe Jews construct sukkahs nonetheless


(JTA) —The temporary shelters that Jews erect during the holiday of Sukkot are meant in part to recall a time when Jews had nowhere permanent to live. In Northeast India, that symbolism is heavy with additional meaning this year...


Click here to read the article in its entirety.

Jewish Arts & Culture

Reproductions of book and magazine covers hang over the main book room of the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, part of the center's new core exhibit. (JTA photo)

25 years after opening, Yiddish Book Center overhauls its core exhibit for a wider audience


AMHERST, Massachusetts (JTA) — Since its opening in 1997, the Yiddish Book Center has wowed visitors with its architecture. A Jewish village resurrected on a college campus in sylvan Amherst, Massachusetts, the building conveys the Center’s mission: to rescue and revive a language spoken for over 1,000 years by Ashkenazi Jews in German-speaking lands, Eastern Europe and wherever they migrated... 


Click here to read the article in its entirety.

New York, ca. 1940. (Helen Levitt)

The radical Jewish photographers who fought injustice with their cameras


(New York Jewish Week) — A multi-generational group of people congregate on a building stoop on Hester Street; an African-American man leans on a lamppost; a gaggle of teenagers pile on top of each other at the beach in Coney Island; a horde of children — in various states of undress — play with a broken mirror in the street. These are only a few examples of the 150 black-and-white snapshots of New York City street life in the 1930s and ’40s that appear in the new book “Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York” by historian and scholar Deborah Dash Moore... 


Click here to read the article in its entirety!

New York Nosh

This compilation of standout Jewish dishes across the boroughs is meant to capture what Jewish food — and maybe even being Jewish — is like in New York City today: joyful, a little bit syncretic, sometimes messy and always a source of pride. (Design by Grace Yagel).

25 Jewish dishes to eat in NYC right now


(New York Jewish Week) — In a metropolis like ours — with both an incredibly rich Jewish heritage and a dynamic, ever-changing dining scene — it is almost impossible to choose just 25 dishes that define what Jewish food in New York City is like today. And yet, that’s exactly what we tried to do with this list, created in partnership with our colleagues at The Nosher.


Click here to read the article in its entirety.

Historical New York

Nathan’s Famous — which started as a nickel hot dog stand and grew to a franchised business that today has over 350 locations in 12 countries — may be most famous today for its annual Fourth of July hot dog eating contest. It is named for its founder, Nathan Handwerker, a Polish Jewish immigrant who, along with his wife, Ida, opened Nathan’s Famous in 1916, when he was 19.

A Jewish-owned hot dog empire began on this Coney Island street corner


(New York Jewish Week) — For many generations of New Yorkers, eating a Nathan’s Famous hot dog from their Coney Island flagship location is a staple of summer. The iconic hot dog stand just celebrated its 107th season at the city’s iconic beachside destination. 


Click here to read the article in its entirety.

Fun Facts/Trivia

Montauk Point Lighthouse, Long Island, New York.

Fun Facts about Long Island


  1. According to 2013 US Census data, LI is the most populus island in the United States.
  2. If geographical Long Island were its own state, it would be the 13th biggest in the union with the highest population density.
  3. Montauk Point Lighthouse is the oldest lighthouse in New York State.
  4. Both Queens and Brooklyn, boroughs of New York City, are physically located on the west end of LI, but the term “Long Island” is colloquially used to refer Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
  5. Long Island’s Gold Coast served as the backdrop to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, The Great Gatsby.


Click here to read more fun facts on beautiful Long Island!


[Source: US Census, Encyclopedia Britannica, State University of New York, State of Rhode Island, Newsday]


Do you have any trivia or interesting facts that you would like to share for the newsletter? Please contact Lisa at assistant@fjmc.org

Affinity Groups & Webinars

FJMC Affinity Groups & Webinars are open to all.

Join us for Yiddish Lite!

Beginner's Yiddish Group

Alternate Tuesday Evenings

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

at 8pm ET

Hosted by Al Davis

Click here to register!

Join us for Yiddish Alive!

Advanced Yiddish Group

Monday, October 16, 2023

at 8pm ET

Hosted by Jeffrey Newton, Joe Rotstein,

Esther Scheer and Barry Wagner

Click here to register!

Join us for Torah Talks!

Next sessions will be:

October 5, 2023 & November 2, 2023

7:30pm ET | 6:30pm CT | 4:30pm PT

With Norm Kurtz and Benny Sommerfeld

Click here to register!

Join us for Sports Affinity!

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

9pm ET

Affinity Group Leaders:

David Kravitz and Danny Mandeau

Special Guest Speaker: Ross Greenburg Former President of HBO Sports

Click here to register!

We invite you to check out our new website!


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