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Residents can dance on Sundays
The Israel Connection Department of the JCC on the Palisades sponsors "The Place to Dance" Sundays at 7 p.m.
"The Place to Dance" is for intermediate to advanced dancers, featuring old and new favorites — circles, couples and debkas — all in a party atmosphere.
The cost is $9 for JCC members and $10 for general admission.
For more information, call Tamar at 201-836-2655.
Iraeli folk dancing offered at JCC
The Israeli Connection Department of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades offers Israeli folk dancing Tuesdays. The instructional series begins at 6:45 p.m. while repertoire instruction and regular session starts at 7:45 p.m.
This is an ongoing course, which starts with beginners in September. The level advances with each new series.
The cost is $8 for JCC members and $9 for general admission.
For more information, call Tamar at 201-836-2655.
The JCC is located at 411 East Clinton Ave. in Tenafly.
Mt. Carmel helps questioning Catholics looking to return
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Tenafly is hosting a group for questioning or hurting Catholics who might be thinking of returning to the Catholic Church. If you are seeking to explore your relationship with the Church in a non-threatening, non-judgmental atmosphere you are invited to join this group. For more information, call Deacon Lex at 201-568-0545, ext. 14, or e-mail Roger at r.k.sullivan@ieee.org or Deborah at djsp4000@gmail.com.
Jewish group gives out scholarship
National Council of Jewish Women Bergen County Section has awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Briel Waxman of Tenafly High School.
Applicants needed to demonstrate high academic standing, community service, involvement in school activities, need and acceptance to a four-year college or university. NCJW members Nan Matlick and Anita Greenberg of Fort Lee chaired the NCJW committee.
Bergen County writer’s new novel
Author and Tenafly resident Adelle Krauser has written a new novel dealing with issues of identity. In this story, women whose primary identity has been motherhood is the primary issue. Often these are middle-class, well-educated women with higher self-expectations than their mothers and grandmothers had.
As part of the main character’s search for identity, she confronts issues of adoption and of religious and cultural identification. She is also struggling with the conflict she feels between her love of Jewish tradition and her inability to believe in God.
A central part of the novel is a poignant Holocaust story set in Normandy, France and a traumatic relationship that results from it. Other settings are an affluent suburban town in New Jersey, an upscale development for healthy seniors in Florida, an assisted living and nursing home in New Jersey and an artist’s flat in Paris.
Krauser is a freelance book editor and a former English and elementary-level schoolteacher. Born and raised in New York, she now lives with her husband in Tenafly. They have three grown children, one of whom, Lawrence, is also a published author. She does watercolor and pastel paintings, and is currently working on a compilation of her short stories. "Bloodlines" is her first novel.
Temple Emeth honors graduates
Temple Emeth in Teaneck honored its student members who graduated from high school at a Shabbat evening music service June 20 with a gift and special recognition.
Among the honorees were two Tenafly High School graduates — Gideon Porter who will attend Hobart College and Rachel Kaplan who will attend Hofstra University.
A College Student Committee headed by Lynne Graizel will keep the college bound students in touch with temple activities. This committee, which currently services more than 25 Temple Emeth family students, keeps the students involved in Jewish activities.
The evening featured the last music service of the season with the Temple Emeth Band. Music services will start again in September, usually on the third Friday evening of the month.
For information on temple activities, call 201-833-1322 or visit www.emeth.org.
Art from the heart at the JCC
Who are some of the best known women in the Hebrew Bible – and why do so many of them have difficulty conceiving? In this interactive workshop with Bette Birnbaum and Harriet Finck, study and discuss biblical paradigms of barrenness and respond, with the help of a professional artist, through the medium of collage.
For Jewish learners at every level, for artists and non-artists alike, this program will tap participants’ creative energy and bring them closer to some of the classic characters and stories. Texts, art supplies and refreshments will be provided.
Birnbaum holds master’s degrees in teaching and Adult Jewish Education from the University of Chicago and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She is on the faculty of the Florence Melton Adult Min-School of Bergen County, and facilitates adult Jewish learning in synagogues and communal institutions throughout the community.
Balaran Finck is a painter and collagist living in Ridgewood. She teaches at William Paterson University in Wayne and at the Art School at Old Church in Demarest. She has co-taught Artists’ Beit Midrash classes at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck, and at the Conservative Synagogue Agudath Isreal of Riverdale.
For more information, call Lynn in the Judaic Department at 201-569-7900, ext. 204 or visit www.jccotp.org.
Group tackles couples' problems
The Presbyterian Church at Tenafly urges people not to go through the pain of divorce or separation alone. The Divorce/Separation Support Group is held at the church on Magnolia Avenue.
Topics the group tackles are dealing with healing and moving on from the pain of divorce and separation.
People are urged to contact George Baxter at 201-248-5125.
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