The annual Holiday Greetings issue of the Center Light will be the September 2018 issue. As before, you can (and should!) add your greetings to those of the rest of the community. We continue to offer the standard size greeting ad at $18, which allows six lines of text. This year you can get a double size ad (twice as tall) that will have up to ten lines of larger text for only $27. Lines of text count ALL lines,…
The Van Cortlandt Jewish Center held its Annual Journal Gala honoring Gary Axelbank on Sunday, June 24th. The event was held at the Riverdale K Grill House, located at 259th Street and Riverdale Ave. Attendees enjoyed a scrumptious cocktail hour followed by a lavish gala lunch and dessert. Amidst the great food and drink were a welcome speech by our President Bob Gillman, invocation by our Rabbi David Borenstein, Committee welcome by our Vice-Chair Philip Friedman, family remarks by the honoree’s…
We are now members of the Synagogue Connect project which provides a place for young Jewish adults, 18-26, a place to participate in High Holiday services at no charge and without requiring any membership. Here’s what the organization itself feels you should know: Our congregation is a partner in a wonderful global effort to create a network of synagogues ready to warmly welcome Jewish young adults 18-26 for High Holiday services without any requirement of membership. I encourage you to…
Flower orders for 2018 are no longer available. Have a Happy Mother’s Day! The Sisterhood will be selling flowers for Mother’s Day (Sunday, May 13). You can order at the office or with the form below. You can also order and pay online using the Add to Cart buttons, in which case you do not need to fill in the form. The floral arrangements will be made by Columbia Florists and will be available for pick up at the synagogue…
On Sunday, April 15, the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center held its annual Holocaust Memorial Observation. The program consisted of the lighting of six candles, one for each million of the six million Jewish martyrs. The VCJC holds an annual Holocaust High School Essay Contest. The winners, all from the Bronx High School of Science, were Janet Lee (first place), William Mesnick (second place), and Julia Haberfield (third place). William Mesnick read his second-place winning essay. The first and third place winners…
VCJC will be holding our ANNUAL GALA on Sunday, June 24, 2018 at 12 noon at the Riverdale K Grill House to celebrate this year’s honoree, Gary Axelbank. You can now order JOURNAL ADS here to take advantage of this opportunity to visibly support our organization and its efforts for the community. You can also order tickets for attending the Gala. You can read more about us below. The Journal will be distributed as hard copy to all Gala attendees and…
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Today, April 12, 2018 is also the 27th of Nisan 5778 and Yom HaShoah. In honor of the day, I am sharing an artifact brought back by my father, Alfred Kleinfeld, who served in the US Army during WW2. He was in North Africa and then in Europe. His name is inscribed in the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center’s Memorial Hall. Among the things that we have from him are a Yellow Star of David, with “Juif” on it, and the…
The two pages have been moved in the website’s structure from the Announcements menu item to the About Us menu item. In addition, the Center Light Archive page has been streamlined so that the pdf versions can be accessed directly from that page, rather than having to go to an intermediate page. The Announcements page itself has been removed, since we are using blog posts like this for announcements. We hope that you find these changes to be improvements and…
Join VCJC for a Mother’s Day / Father’s Day Pick Your Prize Raffle and bake sale on Sunday, May 6, 2018 from 1 to 4 PM. We’ll be at the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center, 3880 Sedgwick Ave, Bronx, NY 10463. Free admission! Pay only for what you want to win. Raffle tickets range from $1 to $10 each depending on the prize you want to win, plus one special $20 raffle item. This is a great opportunity to shop for Mother’s…