|
 Suffolk
COJO Summer Reminders
Suffolk COJO -
 We hope you are planning to join us for the upcoming
Long Island Celebration of Israel@60, on Monday evening, August 11, at the Lakeside Theater in Eisenhower Park. Produced in collaboration with our colleagues at the
Council of Jewish Organizations of Nassau County, the event will feature a concert from two incredibly popular Israeli acts, Shorashim and Ricky Pen. In addition to the musical entertainment, there will be appearances by local and Israeli dignitaries, and organizational displays from many members of the Long Island Jewish community. Our guest MC for the event is Bob Spiotto, Artistic Director of Community Arts Programs at Hofstra University and the Executive Producer of Hofstra Entertainment.
There are many ways to participate…
- Come! Admission is FREE!! Bring a picnic supper, your Frisbee, and a can of food to donate. Organizational tables will be open from 5:00 PM on. We'll have Israeli dancing, vendors and a great party atmosphere. The show itself will begin at 7 PM.
- Your group or organization can take a table to introduce yourselves to the thousands of Long Islanders who'll be present. Simply contact Suffolk COJO and we'll get you all the details. Your fellow exhibiting organizations include the American Jewish Committee, BBYO, AMIT, Nassau Hadassah, Holocaust Center, Jewish Committee on Scouting, Board of Jewish Education, Na'amat, NCJW LI Sections, Volunteers for Israel, Women's League, Magen David Adom, the Conference of Presidents, Selfhelp, JASA, M'Yad L'Yad, StandWithUs and many more! If you're not on the list, you should be!!
- Take vendor space. Do you have a product or service to sell or market? Vendor spaces are available at a VERY reasonable cost. Contact us and we'll set you up!
- Become a sponsor. Your name or business name will be featured in the program, in advertising and press releases, you will receive priority VIP seating, and most importantly, your generosity will help us bring this wonderful event to Long Island in support of Israel and the Jewish Community.
- Spread the word! Attached to this email are color and black and white flyers for the event. Please reproduce and/or distribute them as widely as you can, and invite your friends, members and congregants to take part.
If you'd like to discuss deeper involvement with the program, please be in touch by
email or phone, 631-462-5826.
In The Community -
The pace is slower, but there are events and programs of interest to the Jewish Community this summer. Here are a few:
- The New York premiere of Rachel and Julio, a comic love story, will be presented at Hofstra University's John Cranford Adams Playhouse August 8 - 10. The play will star Lainie Kazan and Robert Davi as "two kids from Brooklyn -- a Jewish girl and a Cuban boy. More than 30 years later, they recall two sides of a love affair that forever changed the way they felt about themselves, each other, and the world around them." Show times are Friday at 8 PM and Saturday and Sunday at 2 PM. For ticket information visit
www.hofstra.edu/hofstraentertainment.
- Suffolk COJO member the American Jewish Committee – Long Island Chapter presents
"Belonging Everywhere", a journey of personal and spiritual discovery by Adam McKinney, member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and Daniel Banks, Ph.D., Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Reflect with Adam on his African-American, Native American, Ashkenazi, and Sephardic heritages and the impact of meeting other non-European diasporic Jewish communities around the world. Travel to a Jewish community in Ghana via their film "We Are All One: The Jews of Sefwi Wiawso". Participate in a community dialogue on issues of Jewish diversity and belonging. The program will take place at 7:30 PM on Thursday, August 14, at Temple Beth El, 5 Old Mill Road, Great Neck. RSVP by August 4 to 516-942-2651 or
ajclistaff@ajc.org.
- Suffolk COJO member the Suffolk Y JCC (74 Hauppauge Road, Commack, 631-462-9800) holds its "Between the Slices" book club at 12:30 PM on the second Thursday of each month. Admission is free for members, $6 for nonmembers.
- Suffolk COJO Vice President Rabbi Rhonda Nebel leads a lunch and learn program at Temple Beth Chai (870 Townline Road, Hauppauge, 631-724-5807) on the second Saturday of the month following Shabbat services. Discuss lessons for everyday life from "Swimming in the Sea of Talmud."
- Suffolk COJO Member At Large Stewart Ain hosts the "Jewish Life" television program on Cablevision channel 18 Thursday evenings at 7:00 PM. Topics in August include Rabbi David Kraemer on Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages (8/14); Leonard Cole on Terror: How Israel Has Coped and What America Can Learn (8/21); and Holocaust Survivor Meir Usherovitz on fighting in Israel's War of Independence (8/28).
- You can send a condolence message to the families of Ehud Goldwasser and
Eldad Regev by visiting http://www.standwithus.org/freethesoldiers/.
Suffolk COJO Community Calendar -
As you begin to finalize your dates for the fall and the upcoming year, please forward the information to us for inclusion in the
Community Calendar that we maintain on our website, www.suffolkcojo.org. Your participation will help ensure that major events don't compete with each other for attention, and will allow the Jewish Community a central location to find out what's going on.
We can assist you with the promotion of your events and partner with you in a number of helpful ways! Please don't hesitate to be in touch; we are here to serve you.
|
