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($10-15 suggested) YJF Service Seventh Night of Chanukah CELEBRATE CHANUKAH AT THE NOVEMBER 3 Mitzvah Day Tuesday, December 3, 2013 NOVEMBER 16 JEWISH APT Comedy Night COMMUNITY CENTER5:30 OF – 8:00PARAMUS p.m. NOVEMBER 17 APT Chanukah Boutique Plan to be with us for this wonderful Jewish Community Center of Paramus/ CELEBRATE CHANUKAH AT THE NOVEMBER 20 Congregation Beth Tikvah tradition, with a twist. 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Sunday DecemberChildren (13 and 5 under): atTh i$3s 9:30amf rinee advance, event is f o$6 r a atll c doorhildren. Maximum:(A $18dul tpers a refamily wel cino madvancee to attend the roof-top lighting) (Only limited seating at door, so please reserve in advance.) Sunday December 5th 9:30 a.m ANNUAL JCCP CHANUKAHANNU BREAKFASTAL CHANUKAH JCC P BREAKFAST All parents invited to a delicious ‘free’ breakfast All JCCP members invited to a a ndeliciousd to be entert a‘free’ined by tbreakfasthe children of the Hebrew School. Sponsored by Sisterhood, Men’s Club & YoungTuesda yJewish Decemb eFamiliesr 7th 2010 You will be entertained by the childrenANN UofAL the CHA HebrewNUKAH E XSchoolTRAVAG ANZA And the JCCP Singers led byP LCantorEASE N OSamTE: A Weiss DIFFE RENT FORMAT!! 5:30-7 p.m. Youth department and Hebrew School are hosting a Chanukah dinner and party for all 2nd-8th grade students. At 5:45 p.m. Rabbi Weiner and the children will light the roof-top Chanukah candles. This free event is for all children. (Adults are wthelcome to attend the roof-top lighting) Tuesday December 7 ANNUAL CHANUKAH EXTRAVAGANZA PLEASE NOTE: A DIFFERENT FORMAT!! 5:30pm—7:00pm Youth department and Hebrew School are hosting a Chanukah dinner and party for all 2nd-8th grade students. At 5:45 p.m. Rabbi Weiner and the children will light the roof-top Chanukah candles. This free event is for all children. (Adults are welcome to attend the roof-top lighting) jewish community center of paramus / congregation beth tikvah From the Rabbi (No, that’s not a typo!) Look at all makes us different and special, the our ancestors. And as we do, we ac- the recipes that combine seasonal source of our pride and strength – knowledge that we are free in this favorites, like cranberry jelly-filled can still be threatening to us. We great nation to create the Jewish sufganiyot (the jelly donuts that are live this, and on some level pass it life of our own choosing, publicly, favored by our Sephardic and Miz- onto our children. It is time to lib- and without shame or fear. rachi Jewish community on Chanu- erate ourselves from this way of kah), or latkes made of sweet pota- thinking about our Judaism and So this Thanksgiving, I encourage toes with marshmallows on top. A our place in this nation. all of you to celebrate with all the kosher bistro in New York City even joy and enthusiasm that you are Which makes a larger point about boasts of a special chocolate sauce capable of, for it is a great day for the observance of Chanukah: De- for its Thanksgiving turkey special all Americans. But as you are cel- spite all the statistics — of late there made from traditional chocolate ebrating Thanksgiving late that have been so many reports — that Chanukah gelt. The possibilities Thursday afternoon, Nov. 28, 2013, constantly quantify and chronicle are endless — as is the heartburn light your Chanukiyah, your Cha- the large numbers of Jews who do that I would certainly get from eat- nukah Menorah, with that same not affiliate or participate in syna- ing any of this! (I do not have an joy and passion. For on that day, gogue life, who define themselves adventurous palate, as those who you are celebrating not only the as cultural Jews as opposed to reli- Rabbi Arthur D. Weiner know me will readily attest.) But courage of the Maccabees but the gious Jews, we know that Chanu- nonetheless I am fascinated by courage of each successive gener- kah is the most observed holiday all this and see several important ation, including our own, to carry It’s hard to believe that it’s only of all. And that should give us hope the middle of October and I need Jewish messages as well. on the struggle to live free as Jews, for the future because Chanukah is and to pass on that tradition to our to prepare a Chanukah message As we all know, Thanksgiving is a a story of Jews who cared enough for our November Bulletin. Rosh children. This year, for the first time uniquely American secular holiday. about their faith, to carry on and in years, and for the last time for Hashanah celebrated right after Though the pilgrims were inspired fight for their future despite the Labor Day weekend is one thing. many years, we will be able do so by the biblical holiday of Sukkot, most terrible conditions and per- on the day that we give thanks for But Chanukah in November? On which has been well documented secution. Each year we gather with Thanksgiving? Now that is really this great nation and the freedom over the course of many centuries family, neighbors and the larger that it affords to all of its citizens to something. Something that, ac- of American history, today Thanks- community to light candles, to sing cording to at least one source that I choose the manner in which they giving is celebrated simply as an of the courage and the victories of wish to live their lives. consulted, won’t happen again un- American festival, and Americans the Maccabees, and to recount the til 2070, then 2165 after that, and of all backgrounds and religious miracles that were experienced by And we choose Judaism. then for thousands of years after identities observe it extensively. that. That is rare indeed. So it is neither surprising nor even Celebrating our holidays at the special that we try to bring some same time as the larger non-Jew- aspects of our important Jewish Jewish Community Center of Paramus ish community is celebrating their holiday of Chanukah to our simul- major holidays is not uncommon. taneous celebration this year of Congregation Beth Tikvah We are certainly used to celebrat- the observance of Thanksgiving. E. 304 Midland Ave. · Paramus, NJ 07652 ing Passover amid Easter, and es- For unlike the “December Dilem- pecially Chanukah alongside ma,” the confluence this year of Phone (201) 262-7691 · Fax (201) 262-6516 Christmas. Indeed, this has been Thanksgiving and Chanukah does [email protected] one of the most interesting chal- not threaten us at all. We are se- Published monthly by the JCCP/CBT lenges throughout American Jew- cure, we are comfortable, and we ish history. At times we accentuate have brought aspects of both our RABBI Arthur D. Weiner their common themes and values Jewish identity and the pride that RABBI EMERITUS Aryeh L. Gotlieb (however real or imagined), yet at comes with it and our American RABBI’S STUDY 201.262.7339 other times we demand a certain identity and the pride we also feel CANTOR Sam Weiss amount of respect for Chanukah with it, to the observance of each and its uniqueness and integrity.