Thursday, September 17, 2020. Issue 34.
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Rosh Hashanah 2020
will begin in the evening of Friday, September 18
and ends in the evening of Sunday, September 20.
Jewish Year 5781
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Early Childhood Education
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Rosh Hashanah, literally the “head of the year,” is the Jewish New Year. It is a time of inner renewal and divine atonement. This year, Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on Friday, September 18th and ends at sundown on Sunday, September 20th.
The holiday is perfectly timed with the beginning of the school year. Our youngest children learn that we dip apples in honey for a sweet new year and our older children engage in reflective discussions about how we can be our best selves in the coming year.
We eat delicious foods and blow the shofar (though we’ll avoid sharing the shofar to avoid the spread of germs)!
It is customary to have big feasts on both nights of Rosh Hashanah and there are thus a plethora of customary dishes, including honey cake, brisket, and tzimmes to name a few.
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A Customary Practice: Blowing the Shofar
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A shofar is a ram’s horn that is blown like a trumpet during Rosh Hashanah services, every day except Shabbat during the preceding month of Elul, and at the end of Yom Kippur. The four sounds of the shofar — tekiah, shevarim, teruah, and tekiah gedolah — remind many people of a crying voice. Hearing the shofar’s call is a reminder for us to look inward and repent for the sins of the past year.
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Jewish Honey Cake
As we close the year, reflect, and prepare to welcome in a new year, what better way to celebrate and share our intentions for the year to come than to whip up a beautiful honey cake to share with our loved ones!
From all of us here in Camp & Youth we want to say to you: Shanah Tovah!
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year and looking forward to the day when we can all be together again.
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DESTINATIONS
New York to Nicasio Valley
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Amy Justman,
The “Leading Lady of Crossover”
Thursday, September 17
1:00 to 2:30pm
via Zoom
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Let me sneak you in the Stage Door to go “backstage” on Broadway to meet this delightful singing actor who brings her unique expertise, experiences & insights to our exclusive, behind-the-scenes visits. Come learn off stage what makes the magic happen on stage!
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Nicasio Valley Cheeses
Sunday, October 18
4:00 to 5:30pm via Zoom
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Bring your bottle of wine, a few crackers, hop in our virtual coach and let us take you to experience a fun, interesting, delicious & cheesy "happy hour" from the comfort of your living room.
Quantities are limited. Order Soon!
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Grab your calendar, save the dates next week, register via the links below and join me for two free programs made possible by our donors!
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Wild Women Poets
Tue, Sep 22, 1:00pm to 2:30pm via Zoom
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Dale Biron returns with a delicious selection of poems by wild women poets at their rabble-rousing, norm challenging, often inspiring, assumption-busting best.
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Whatcha Watchin'?
Wed, Sep 23: 1:00-2:00pm via Zoom
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Join me and others to share and compare what you are watching, favorite resources and biggest surprises! Learn about entertaining, interesting, educational, or uplifting treasures you may have missed and recommend your favorites to others.
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Advance registration required.
Minimum of 5 registrants required by 10:00am the morning of the event.
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You will automatically receive an email confirmation. If the email is not in your inbox, please check your “junk” or “spam” folders. Still no confirmation? Please re-register making sure to enter the correct email. Still no confirmation? Please contact Danielle at dvierra@marinjcc.org
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Zoom practice makes perfect.
Please take a look at our Learning Zoom webpage and download the easy step-by-step manuals. Then register for one of our live online practice sessions.
Advance registration required. Zoom classes require a minimum of five registrants by 10:00am on the morning of the program.
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Thanks to our donors, this program is free!
Be a part of rebuilding our programs. Donations of any amount help make free and low-cost programs such as this possible. Visit www.marinjcc.org/donate and designate your gift to Adult Learning & Living.
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Feed the body and the soul!
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Join us for the next installment of this soul-nourishing, delicious program from Bay Area husband-and-wife duo Gabi Moskowitz (acclaimed food blogger) and Evan Wolkenstein (author and Jewish educator). Gabi and Evan will discuss the wisdom of Sukkot while showing us how make a Fig and Ricotta Flatbread with Honey andThyme. We'll email you the ingredients and recipe prior to the event.
Sign up for upcoming Kitchen Chevruta dates:
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Kitchen Chevruta: Sukkot
Fig and Ricotta Flatbread with Honey and Thyme
Thursday, October 1 — 7:30pm
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Kitchen Chevruta: Simchat Torah
The Cyclical-Linear Time Paradox of the Torah—and
Challah Cardamom-Cinnamon Rolls
Thursday, October 8 — 7:30pm
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Come! Enjoy Outdoor Fitness.
We're open!
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There are more time slots to choose from with our new extended hours.
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NEW HOURS
Monday through Friday
6:30am to 6:00pm
Saturday and Sunday
7:30am to 5:45pm
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What's it like to exercise outside at the J?
It's being called a resort-like paradise. But don't just take our word for it. Check out this short video of happy, healthy members:
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Active membership required.
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If you would like to restart your membership to use the pool and/or outdoor fitness, please click here.
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Too much news and too much weather. I need to take a break and escape. Can’t go out, but there is always a way in through the movies and television, if you know where to look. And why not try a genre that zooms us into another dimension and does not require a partner: the dream of romance.
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There is a movie moment with William Holden and Kim Novak in 1955’s Picnic that takes my breath away. In a lavish adaptation of the William Inge play, the song “Moonglow” is a costar. It provides an unforgettable dance sequence between these two wonderful actors. She is the prettiest and loneliest girl in town, and he is a drifter trying to avoid trouble. It finds him, and their slow swing dance at the community picnic is one of the most romantic moments in the movies.
One of the elements we look for in romantic moments is a sense that we invest in the outcome. We want that kiss, or that camera panning to the tumultuous sky or (in Hitchcock’s world) the train through the tunnel. It can be the joy in discovering oneself. In the underrated musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, our leading man addresses a mirror while singing “I Believe in You.” The Sound of Music takes Julie Andrews to her new home while she sings “I Have Confidence in Me.” Peter Pan tells me daily “I’ve Gotta Crow!”
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From music to dialogue, does it get any hotter than Lauren Bacall asking Humphrey Bogart if he knows how to whistle? In 1944’s To Have and Have Not, we find ourselves on the island of Martinique during WW2. A charter boat operator mixes it up with French Resistance fighters and a woman next door. Based on the Ernest Hemingway novel, the attraction between Bogie and Bacall is the definition of chemistry. The audience receives the joy of our imagination as the actors use language for lovemaking. Costars Hoagy Carmichael, a reason by itself to see this stylish, romantic adventure.
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As if one romance were not enough, 1987’s Moonstruck seems to have four or five going on at once. And what makes this comedy drama even better, the people are of different ages, adding to the poignancy and reality of this marvelous movie. Of course, we get the two leads (Nicholas Cage and the divine Cher) drawn to each other against all odds, but we have Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, and others, including a kindly grandfather who has his own romance with dogs. (I relate!)
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Once in a while a romance comes out that stars a particular favorite of ours. Then we get to dream on in a personal way. For me such a film is the 2008 historical epic Australia. An English aristocrat inherits a large ranch and reluctantly joins up with a rugged local to help her out. Together they struggle to take the cattle to Darwin. Who cares where they go? Hugh Jackman is there, and that’s all I need. What a sexy, charismatic actor. We all have one or two stars we like. He’s mine. Back off, girls and boys! I also tune into YouTube for his Oklahoma, Tony and Oscar hosting…wherever he is. I don’t watch the superhero or Wolfman stuff. But when he is romantic or musical or both, I’m in heaven.
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There are many examples of our collective or individual love of movie romance. From Call Me By Your Name to Bull Durham, from Red Dust to Brokeback Mountain, with lingering stops for Gilda, Notorious, Something’s Got to Give and La La Land, movie romance will take us away every time.
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Stay well, Friends. We miss you!
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