HOT MEALS IN OUR SUCCAH REVISED 9/21/18 – The only meals that can still be reserved are Friday evening 9/28 and Shabbos lunch 9/29. They must be reserved by Wednesday Morning 9/26. Best in the office, but you can reserve with the revised form below. Once again, the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center will have hot meals in our Succah. This year there will be 6 meals available: 3 dinners and 3 lunches. You can come for as many or as few…
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…
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…