golden age news: november issue
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Official newsletter for the Golden Age Club pf The Jewish Community Center of Princeton, Mercer, & Bucks.TRANSCRIPT
The Golden Age Club is a program for adults 60
and older of the JCC and meets at Adath Israel Congregation, 1958
Lawrenceville Road in Lawrenceville NJ for all
its Monday and Wednesday activities.
For questions or
directions, call the JCC at (609) 606-7070 or
Adath Israel at (609) 896-4977.
NOVEMBER 2014
WEEKLY SCHEDULE MONDAYS
10:30-11:00 – Exercise Class with Flo Nov 3, 17, 24
10:15-11:00 – Yoga Nov 10.
11:00-12:00 – Meeting including a current events discussion.
12:00 Noon – Lunch. Reservations a must! Call Ketti at (609) 637-0030.
WEDNESDAYS
10:00-12:00 – - Lecture Series with Rabbi Grossman. October 29-December 17.
NOVEMBER Program Highlights
11/3 – Speaker: Nurse Linda Buckley on Medicine Today
11/10 – Speaker: Carol
Staats from Ride Provide
11/17 – Brenda Cohen shares her trip to Greece & Turkey
11/24 – Rabbi Benjamin
Adler on Customs of Hanukkah
Please see the next page for details & more information on
this month’s programming!
COMING ATTRACTIONS For December
A return visit by Professor Jodi Weinstein of TCNJ with an intriguing talk she calls "Unlikely Allies: Japan and the Jews of WWII".
Our Annual Hanukkah Celebration, a feast with all the traditional trimmings and entertainment by the very talented Hazzan Arthur Katlin! (See the enclosed reservation form for details)
Golden Age Club of the Jewish Community Center
Phone: (609) 606-7070
Mail: PO Box 875 Princeton Junction, NJ 08550
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and Turkey, specifically the synagogues dating from 2nd century BCE to mid 20th century. Her explorations looked at their architecture and their striking differences inside: where can you find couches for seating or a bemah on the back wall or a Torah in a wooden box??? Do you know what Romaniote is?? Brenda's love of history has taken her to faraway places; her talent for writing has produced several books and newspaper columns and successful lectures. How fortunate that she will be sharing some with us!
Nov 24th
12:30 "SOME LESSER KNOWN
CUSTOMS OF HANUKKAH" - Rabbi Benjamin Adler of Adath Israel Congregation, in his first appearance at our meetings, will speak about the more obscure traditions that are associated with this holiday. This is so timely as we approach the upcoming holiday and look forward to our own Golden Age Club celebration here.
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Nov 3rd
10:00 Board Meeting
12:30 "THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY - Medicine Today" - Linda Buckley, Nurse Educator with the Austin Health Center will speak openly and frankly about: *What procedures are "in fashion" nowadays *What about rehab after surgery....*Infection Issues, are we safe anywhere now?.... *Unintentional poisoning?....We'll have a candid look by a health professional with an opportunity to ask any and all questions.
Nov 10th
10:15 Yoga with Paula Berg
12:30 “NEED A RIDE?" - Carol
Staats, Program Manager for Ride Provide is coming to tell us about the lesser know transportation service for seniors over 60 and the visually impaired. She will explain the guidelines for the low cost service.
Nov 17th
12:30 WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER
VACATION" – Brenda Cohen will enchant us with stories of her trip to Greece
SHARING & CARING
News About Our Members
Irma Kleinerman is home from the hospital. We wish her well.
Janeen McGrath has accepted the position of Corresponding Secretary upon the resignation of Joan Berman due to illness.
A special thanks to Paula Berg, daughter of our own Lorraine Blumenfield, who has graciously volunteered to lead us in Yoga on November 10. Paula is a Certified Yoga Instructor, practicing in the Mercer and Bucks areas.
Welcome back from Arizona and congratulations to Harriet Belovin on the birth of her new Great-Grandson, Miles Blake Weisman. The proud grandparents are Sue and Ron Schwartz.
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Did You Know??? Thanksgiving, as in giving thanks, is a very Jewish thing to do. According to tradition, Jews are to
give thanks 100 times each day.
Historians believe that the initial Thanksgiving feast was based upon
our fall thanksgiving festival of Sukkot.
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT:
Shirley Nabutovsky
Growing up in South Trenton (so-called Jewtown), Shirley, her mom, and dad, Ida and David Nabutovsky, lived with her maternal grandparents, Kate and Sam Bash. Shirley was just 4 years old when her dad passed away.
Her schooling began in the Herzl Zion Day School on Market
Street and she transferred to the Trenton School System after 1st grade and attended Ahavath Israel for Sunday school. After her family moved to Western section of Trenton, at the insistence of her uncle Simon Bash, Shirley was enrolled in Adath Israel’s Hebrew School, and is proud to have remained a member of Adath for the past 56 years.
Shirley’s higher education included Temple University, Rider
College and then Franklin School of Science and Arts from which she graduated. Her degree as a Medical Technical Secretary took her to Mercer Medical Center (now Capital Health) for a 43 year career in their School of Nursing and for last 12 years of her career she also worked as the Part-Time Religious School Administrative Assistant at Adath on Sundays and Evenings.
Now retired, she followed in the footsteps of her paternal
grandmother Yetta Nabutovsky, Yetta’s daughter and son-in-law Sylvia and Ned Lipshutz , her mom and her aunt, Bert Bash Price and joined The Golden Age Club in Spring of 2014. With her special skills and enthusiastic entrance into Golden Age, she has quickly computerized our membership base and taken on the position of Records Specialist. She generously offered to typeset the monthly newsletters, allowing long-time member Florence Lipstein to “retire” from that job.
Currently Shirley is co-chairing our Hanukkah celebration
with Karen Katz, she volunteers at Adath in various capacities, and weekly at Greenwood House’s Greenleaf Gift Shop. With her spare time she likes to read, knit, dine out, go to shows and movies with friends, and play mah jongg.
We are so fortunate to have Shirley in our Golden Age Club!!! New Members Always Welcome!
November Birthdays! Cyla Schall - November
Please call Janeen (609-989-9879) if you wish make a contribution in of any of our celebrants any occasion. With minimum $2 donation, a
will be sent to the