The Golden Age Club is a program of the JCC

and meets at Adath Israel Congregation, 1958 Lawrenceville

Road in Lawrenceville NJ for all its Monday & Wednesday activities.

For questions or

directions, call the JCC (609)606-7070 or Adath

Israel (609)896-4977.

APRIL 2015

Golden Age Club of the Jewish Community Center

Phone: (609) 606-7070

Mail: PO Box 875 Princeton Junction, NJ 08550

A month for

Remembrance Celebration Commemoration Passover – April 3rd-11th

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – April 3rd

Yom Hashoa/Holocaust Remembrance Day – April 16th

Israel Independence Day – April 24th

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WEEKLY SCHEDULE MONDAYS 10:30-11:00 – Exercise with Bob 11:00-12:00 – Meeting plus current events discussion with Lynn 12:00 Noon – Lunch Reservations a must! Call Ketti at (609)637-0030. 12:30 – Program of the Week WEDNESDAYS 10 – 12 noon History class with Rabbi Grossman “Coming to America” begins April 15th. Registration form enclosed.

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Programs

4/6 – No meeting in observance of Passover 4/13 – Theater Trip to Hunterdon Hills Playhouse for “Abie’s Irish Rose”

4/15 - “Coming to America” with Rabbi Grossman

4/20 - “Commemorating and Remembering” This year’s Yom Hashoa program begins with the Lighting of the 6 Memorial Candles, followed by a joint presentation by

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Dr. Gilda Rorro Baldassari, author of “Italians and the Holocaust” and Dr. Paul Winkler, Executive Director of NJ Commission on Holocaust Education.

4/27 – “An Impartial Look at the War of Yankee Aggression” The Civil War discussed from the perspective of Rabbi Eric Wisnia, with the focus on the role Jews played in this national tragedy.

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SHARING & CARING

News

Welcome to Bob Kirby: The Golden Age Club is delighted to begin a new Active Aging Fitness Program provided by Bob Kirby, ACE Certified in Group Fitness. This “encore” career began for Bob when he saw the benefits exercise provided his parents and he wants to share his knowledge in movement, balance, stretching, and strength training with us every Monday.

Bob’s impressive credentials include Project Healthy Bones Peer Leader for NJ Dept. of Human Services, training for Move Today Physical Fitness Lead Coordinator, American Council On Exercise (ACE) Certified in Group Fitness and in CPR.

This program is provided free of charge to all Golden Age members. No registration required.

We are thrilled to have Dr. Gilda Rorro Baldassari partake in our Yom Hashoa program today. Her illustrious background comprises an extensive career

in education which includes classroom teaching in World Languages, Television Teaching for the Tri-State Area and more than fifteen years at the NJ Department of Education (DOE), in its Civil rights Office, where she became the Director. She is widely published in educational journals and authored two Teacher Handbooks for meeting the needs of Haitian students. She served as Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources in the Trenton Board of Education.

The Government of Italy appointed her “Honorary Vice Consul for Italy, in Trenton, in 1998; and is currently their “Consular Correspondent”. For the past four years she served as Chair of the NJ Italian and Italian American Heritage Commission.

On June 2, 2008, Cav. Rorro Baldassari was bestowed the honorific title of “Cavaliere: Al merito della Repubblica Italiana”. In 2012 she received the “Hela Young Award” from the NJ Office of Holocaust/ Genocide Education for her efforts in prejudice reduction.

Dr. Paul B. Winkler, Executive Director of the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education has been formally involved in Holocaust/genocide education and prejudice reduction education since

1974. This interest began during his youth and was developed, encouraged, and learned from his parents and grandmother. During his teenage and adult years he was involved in social causes as he is today.

His educational activities of over 50 years have included teacher, principal, superintendent, Regional Education Director, NJ Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Education for Exceptional Children and Director of a Teacher Training Center.

He has written many articles dealing with Holocaust and genocide education; his most recent is “Teaching the Unspeakable- The New Jersey Story of Holocaust/Genocide Education”.

Working as a volunteer and now a part-time employee, he has aided in the establishment of first the council and eventually the Commission on Holocaust Education here in NJ.

Dr. Winkler has received numerous awards and citations including the “Philip Forman Human Relations” award from the American Jewish Committee of Central New Jersey, the outstanding educator award from ASCD, and numerous legislative acknowledgments from the legislature. For his more than 50 years in education, his family, friends and colleagues established the Paul B. Winkler Endowment to be awarded to an elementary educator each year.

Commemorating and Remembering – Monday April 20th, 12:30

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New Members Always Welcome!

REMINDER:    DUES  ARE  DUE  -­‐  Please  

return  the  enclosed  statement  with  

your  check  

April Birthdays!

Gilda Gittleman – April 13th

Harriet Sanders – April 26th

Please call Janeen McGrath (609-989-9879) if you wish to make a contribution in honor of any of our celebrants or for any other occasion. With a minimum $2 donation, a note will be sent to the recipient.

Kosher meals provided by the Greenwood House and funded by

the Mercer County Office on Aging.

PROUDLY SPONSERED BY:

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT:

Cyla Schall

Cyla Schall was born as Cyla Schwartz Bok in Sarny, Poland. She was the youngest of five children in a religious family. Her two sisters got married when Cyla was young and left their family to help build what would become the state of Israel. Cyla was still a child when World War II began. At first the Russians occupied her part of Poland and then the Nazis, having a change of plan, invaded Poland. Cyla, her parents, and two brothers ran from their burning city, and kept running, always just ahead of the Nazis. The conditions were harsh, with no place to live, no food, and no water. Cyla and her two brothers somehow managed to survive, the only ones to survive from her large family and extended family in Poland. While in Kazakhstan, she met the love of her life, Solomon Schall (Z”L.) Solomon was from Lvov, Poland and lost all of his family in the Holocaust. They were married and tried returning to Poland in 1946. They found that Jews were not welcome there and were once again without a homeland. They lived in Displaced persons camps and dreamed of going to Israel. When Cyla found out that her brother Label was not able to go with them to Israel, they changed their plans and with the help of HIAS traveled to America with Label and their two young European-born children, Benjamin and Helen. Their American journey began in 1950, in the vibrant Jewish community on Broad and Market Streets in Trenton, and a job for Solomon as an electrician at Trenton Kramer Company. After moving to Highland Ave. in Trenton, they settled in Ewing Township in the same home she lives at today. Cyla and Solomon always stressed family, education, and the love of Israel and everything Jewish to Ben and Helen and Morris and Janet, their children born in Trenton. While Solomon worked many years at Trenton Kramer Co., Cyla had a number of positions she enjoyed, selling shoes and working at a kosher bakery, among other jobs. She commuted to New York City for about 20 years, managing a coat store. She was a pioneer in the advancement of working mothers everywhere. Cyla feels her greatest achievement has been her children, 8 grandchildren, and 7 great grandchildren… so far. It brings her great joy knowing that her legacy continues with them and that her story will never be forgotten.

REMEMBER – Your 2015 dues are due. Stay current in order to enjoy in the coming months our classes, weekly programs, a dinner theater trip, the annual Seder, Anniversary luncheon, another Hanukkah party. As a Golden Age Club your participation is subsidized whenever there is a fee.