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Happenings Around Town happenings around town Iyar 7 5780/May 8th, 2020 May 10th and beyond Monday, May 11th and Thursday, May 14th, Sunday, May 10th, 9:30am– Coping with COVID-19, an 8pm– Calm Amid Corona: OU Mental Health online discussion about coping with mental health Series. Monday’s session features Bracha issues during the current pandemic and what we can Hollander– Goldfein, Phd, LMFT, “Shifting learn from these challenges, featuring David H. Perspectives: Confusion As The New Norm.” Rosmarin, PHD and Rabbi Yakov Horowitz. To join the Thursday’s session features Rabbi Sholom Baum event, go to bit.ly/MentalHealthAddiction, password and Shira Kaufman Danzig, Phd, “Riding The (if prompted) welcome. Rollercoaster: Managing Emotions And Uncertainty In Stressful Times.” View both sessions Sunday, May 10th, 9:30am- Project S.A.R.A.H. (Stop live at ou.org/mentalhealth or fb.com/ Abusive Relations at Home) will hold its annual OrthodoxUnion. breakfast via Zoom. Leah & Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman, Medina & Charles Popper, and the Kahal Tzedakah Tuesday, May 12th, 5pm- On Lag B’Omer, Yaakov Organization at Yeshivat Frisch will be honored. Join Shwekey, Mordechai Ben David, and Ishay Ribo Susie Fishbein for a special breakfast cooking session. will be performing a global live stream concert. The program will also feature statements by Dr. David The concert will be hosted by Migdal Ohr and will Pelcovitz, Senator Loretta Weinberg, Attorney Susan benefit Magen Yisrael - Israel Shield, Migdal Ohr’s Weisen, and Pamela Jacobs. Register online at Covid 19 Relief Fund. Spearheaded by Migdal Ohr https://jfsclifton.org/projectsarah and you will receive together with the Government of Israel and in the Zoom password. Donations are urgently needed partnership with the IDF, Magen Yisrael is at this difficult time of quarantine and isolation, when providing critical support to families and seniors in “being SAFE at home” may mean just the opposite for dire need. Magen Yisrael plans to deliver bi- suffering families. monthly relief packages containing weeks’ worth of food and essential goods to 40,000 people who Sunday, May 10th, 9:30am- Communities Confronting find themselves without desperately needed forms Substance Abuse and Refa’enu invite you to an online of financial and nutritional support due to the discussion about coping with mental health pandemic. The concert will air live NY time with issues during the current pandemic. 100% of the proceeds raised going directly to the Rabbi Yakov Horowitz is the founder and dean of fund. Viewing passes can be purchased for $18. Yeshiva Darchei Noam of Monsey, and Founder/ Director of Project Y.E.S. (Youth Enrichment Services). Thursday, May 14th, 11am -12:30pm—NEW David H. Rosmarin, PhD is the Founder/Director of the Bereavement Support Group for individuals who Center for Anxiety and an Assistant Professor in the have lost a spouse/partner to Covid19, led by a Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. licensed clinician from Jewish Family and To join the event: bit.ly/MentalHealthAddiction Children’s Services of Northern New Jersey (JFCS). Password (if prompted): welcome. Join the event The group will meet via Zoom. There is no fee to from your computer or mobile phone. Audio will be join this group. Registration is required - call 201- available through your laptop or mobile speakers — 837-9090 or send an email to [email protected] no dial-in is needed. If you are joining from a mobile phone, you must first install the WebEx Meeting app. For more information, go to www.time2talkaddiction.org happenings around town Sunday, May 17, at 9:30 a.m., Project S.A.R.A.H. (Stop Abusive Relations at Home) will hold its annual breakfast via Zoom. Leah & Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman, Medina & Charles Popper, and the Kahal Tzedakah Organization at Yeshivat Frisch will be honored. Join Susie Fishbein for a special breakfast cooking session. The program will also feature statements by Dr. David Pelcovitz, Senator Loretta Weinberg, Attorney Susan Weisen, and Pamela Jacobs. Register online at https://jfsclifton.org/projectsarah and you will receive the Zoom password. Donations are urgently needed at this difficult time of quarantine and isolation, when “being SAFE at home” may mean just the opposite for suffering families. Project S.A.R.A.H. (Stop Abusive Relationships At Home) provides services and resources for Jewish victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse throughout the state of New Jersey. Their services help victims to process the traumas they have experienced, enabling them to work towards happier and more productive lives. They connect Talleisim for Burial—Jewish men are generally buried victims and survivors with a broad array of services in a tallit. There is currently a campaign by the Hebrew including individual and group therapy by our highly Free Burial Association (“HFBA”) to collect talleisim for trained clinical staff. They offer community the burial of Jews whose talleisim cannot be located or education workshops, prevention programming, the did not have their own. The HFBA arranges respectful world-renowned Magen Yeladim Child Safety levayaot and burials for Jews whose families cannot Programs for schools, a middle school cyber safety afford to do so. There is a bin in front of 1136 program, and a broad array of professional trainings Korfitsen Road, New Milford, where the talleisim, in any condition can be dropped off. This is a video that Shabbos Take out is available again this week. 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