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JEWISH COMMUNITY
CENTER OF
LONG BEACH ISLAND
E-LETTER
October 24 2025
4 Cheshvan 5785
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A MESSAGE FROM THE RABBI
Have you ever felt as if you were not in control of your life? Have you ever felt responsible for the survival of the known world while being on a rudderless ship in a tempest of biblical proportions? Have you ever wondered how you are possibly going to move forward? If you have answered yes to these questions, then you probably know what Noah must have felt when he was on the ark.
In truth I think that the Noah story is universal. On some level, his story is all of our stories. Most of us have gone through periods of our lives when we have been overwhelmed. Noah faces the crisis with a silent (some would say too silent) determination and takes, what appears to be, the best course of action. He does not lament his fate, nor does he complain. He addresses the issues as they arise. Then he creates a path forward.
He is told that a flood will destroy the world, and he quickly builds an ark. He saves as many animals as he can, two-by-two. As the rain begins, he makes sure that the animals, and his family, are all on the ark.
As the rain is falling and the boat is rolling aimlessly, he sits in the ark and waits out the storm. Once the rain ends, Noah then takes action and sends a raven and then a dove. Once off the ark, Noah thanks God for the protection. And then, in a sign of preparing for the future, Noah plants a vineyard.
Of course, Noah has God on his side through this process, but when one looks objectively at the story, Noah does what needs to be done. Noah prepares for the problem, addresses the problem, is thankful once the problem is over, and then prepares for the future.
Unfortunately life will throw “floods” at us. Noah provides a good, and simple, paradigm for how we can address them when they confront us.
Don’t ignore the problems that confront us, take action, be thankful, and continually prepare for the future.
Shabbat Shalom – Rabbi Michael S. Jay
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NOTICE: BEGINNING NOVEMBER 7, FRIDAY NIGHT SERVICES - EXCEPT FOR SHABBAT DINNER EVENINGS - WILL BE ON
ZOOM ONLY
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Candle Lighting Time
(Southern Ocean County)
Shabbat Eve
Friday, October 24, 2025
5:64 PM
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JOIN US
FOR
SHABBAT
SERVICES
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Friday
October 24, 2024
7:30 PM
IN PERSON AND
ON ZOOM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to join Services
on Zoom
FRIDAY NIGHT
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Saturday
October 25, 2025
9:00 AM
IN PERSON AND
ON ZOOM
Here is
your invitation from
Rabbi Jay to join
Zoom services
SATURDAY MORNING
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TORAH READING
Parashat Noach
Genesis 6:9-11:32
Noach (“Noah”) begins as God decides to destroy mankind with a flood. At God’s command, the righteous Noah builds an ark, where Noah, his family, and select animals survive the flood. Noah’s children bear children, and several generations develop. God confounds the speech of people building the Tower of Babel.
HERE IS THE PORTION
HAFTORAH
Isaiah 54:1-55:5
The haftorah compares the final Redemption to the pact G‑d made with Noah in this week's Torah reading. Just as G‑d promised to never bring a flood over the entire earth, so too He will never again be angry at the Jewish people.
Here is the Haftorah
WEEKDAY SERVICES
Monday - Thursday
Ma'ariv Service
7:30 PM
Here is your invitation from Rabbi Jay to
join Zoom services:
MA'ARIV
Monday - Friday
Shacharit Service
8:15 AM
Sunday at 9:00 AM
Here is your invitation from Rabbi Jay to
join Zoom services:
SHACHARIT
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SUNDAY, October 26
Pickleball
10 AM - 1 PM
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MONDAY, October 27
Drawing with Joyce Smith
10:30 AM
Davening 101 with Stu
7:45
TUESDAY, October 28
Pickleball
10 AM - 1 PM
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WEDNESDAY, October 29
Canasta & Mah Jongg
12:30 - 4 PM
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THURSDAY, October 30
Torah Study
11 AM
Pickleball
10 AM - 1 PM
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FRIDAY, October 31
Studying the Prophets
following morning minyan
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Monday, October 27
Drawing with Joyce Smith
10:30 AM
Adult Education: Davening 101
7:45 PM
Friday, October 31
Shabbat Dinner
6:30 PM
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November 3/November 10
Adult Education: Davening 101
7:45 PM
Sunday, November 9
Everything You Want to Know About the Surflight Theatre
with Steve Steiner
11:00 AM
Monday, November 10
Drawing with Joyce Smith
10:30 AM
Thursday, November 13
Ethical Wills
with Rabbi Jay
7:45 PM
WAX Brunch
Friday, November 14
LBI Table
11:00 PM
Wedmesday, November 19
WAX Book Review
4:00 PM
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MAH JONGG & CANASTA
WEDNESDAYS
12:30 PM TO 4:00 PM
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PICKLEBALL
Sundays and Thursdays
10 - 1
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DAVENING 101 with Stu
October 27/Nov3/Nov10
7:45 PM
Learn to participate more fully during services
with Stu Lehrer, Ritual Chair.
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If you missed the excellent program on the show "South Pacific" which is part of the John Kendrick Broadway Series, here is the link and password:
CLICK HERE IS THE LINK Password #a0hJajF
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WAX BOOK DISCUSSION
The third Wednesday of each Month
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Wednesday, November 19th at 4:00 pm
Discussion Leader: TBA
ON ZOOM
Beyond the Rivers of Babylon: My Journey of Optimism and Resilience
in a Turbulent Century
By Joseph Samuels and Julie Fax
Growing up on his family’s cattle farm in western Iceland, young Orri has gained an appreciation for the beauty Rowing upon the Tigris River to enjoy a summer campfire on the tiny islands that emerged every summer, teenaged Joseph Samuels never could have imagined that these waters would soon become his only hope for freedom. At the age of 19, he was forced to leave his family behind as he smuggled out of Iraq in the secret hold of a Basra riverboat to escape the violent and repressive anti-Semitism that, over the next few years, would spell the end of the twomillennium old Iraqi Jewish community. Beyond the Rivers of Babylon follows Joe’s remarkable journey, from his colorful childhood in the Old Jewish Quarter of Baghdad, to his life-altering service in the Israeli Navy, to starting a family and building a real estate empire in Montreal and Los Angeles. Blessed with a landscape of a home that is no more, and in the process imparts the lessons of a life lived to its fullest. remarkably vivid memory and a keen ability to look inward, Joe paints a sensoryJoe paints a sensory landscape of a home that is no more, and in the process imparts the lessons of a life lived to the fullest.
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The JCC section at Crescent Memorial Park is available for sales. Please contact Bonni Rubin-Sugarman at 609-417-7148.
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We are very excited to add to the WAX Gift Shop items from local merchants and artisans. Stop in to look and buy one (or more) of these beautiful pieces for your home, as a gift or just for yourself.
The gift shop is open during office hours M-F 10 - 2.
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CALL PAUL LEVINE WITH ANY QUESTIONS
484-802-0586
SEE ORDER FORM BELOW
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The following names will be read by the Rabbi on Friday evening:
Lorraine Baratt
Molly Fingerman
Judy Abend*
Francis August
Herbert Davis
Jane Hochberger
Ruth Maginsky
Denise Moss*
Will Roth
Albert Stuhl
Max Weinstein
Sylvia Greene
Alex Moss
Rabbi Samuel Nunberg*
Shirley Rogers
Rose Rosenbaum
Paul Tanenbaum
Morris Balbresky
Kesselman Charles
Abraham Heller
Doris Pashman
Samuel Chairnoff
Stephen Harvey Greenberg
Rose Kotler
Eva Miller*
Beatrice Brody
Philip Petter
Marvin Schub
Mary Sisenwine
Harriet Sklar
Anna Stuhl
Francis Wallach
Arthur Wichman
We encourage you to join us on the day of your loved one’s yahrzeit. In the morning, the service is about ½ hour beginning at 8:15 and in the evening at 7:30 until about 7:45. Rabbi will be glad to say the traditional El Malei Rachamim prayer for you, which is recited during the funeral.
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CARING COMMITTEE
This committee acts as a support system for congregation members facing illness and other personal situations that need to be addressed.
Please contact Chairperson,
Debby Schweighardt
if you are in need of assistance or if you know of a JCC member that needs our help.
973-634-5349
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Rebecca Stern Dolinger
October 28
Lorna Klein
October 29
Ron Marr
October 29
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Michael & Marlene Nissenblatt
October 28
52nd Anniversary
Warren & Carolyn Racusin
October 28
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AND PICTURES
CONTACT:
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MAZEL TOV
on the wedding of
Alex Farin &
Cloe Elizabeth Jacques
son of Larry & Leslie Farin
grandson of Harold Farin z"l
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YOU CAN NOW FILL OUT A GIVING FORM AND PAY ON LINE IN ONE SIMPLE PROCESS.
Go to jccoflbi.org - Giving/Pay
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GIVING OPPORTUNITIES
PAVERS
Inscribe a paver at the front entrance to the building
8" X 4", 8" X 8" and 12" X 12"
SEE UPDATED ORDER FORM:
PAVER FORM
Become a permanent part of the JCC landscape.
Purchase a personalized paving stone
in honor of your family or in memory of a loved one.
Please contact Diane Hoffman
with your order or with any questions:
dihoff1@aol.com
PRAYER BOOKS
There are still High Holiday Prayer Books and Chumashim available to be purchased in memory or honor of someone or something. The cost of a Prayer Book is $72 each and $120 for an Eitz Hayim Chumash. The donation includes an affirmation sticker in the book and an acknowledgement letter or letters.
See Order form here: Prayer Book
TRIBUTES
SEND ONE OF OUR TRIBUTES IN HONOR OR IN MEMORY OF
See order form here: TRIBUTES
TREE OF LIFE
Add a leaf (leaves) to our beautiful Tree of Life located in the Social Hall. See the order form here: TREE OF LIFE
Bronze Leaf $90
Silver Leaf $126
Gold :Leaf $180
ENDOWMENT FUND
Herb and Selma z”l Shapiro established the first individual Endowment Fund in memory of his father, as part of the JCC’s Endowment Fund portfolio.
Since then, three additional individual Endowment Funds have been established. Other members are encouraged to also provide for the future of our JCC by establishing similar funds. Please consider adding to this number.
A donation of at least $50,000 to the endowment fund will allow the donor to name one of the funds as the donor wishes. All such named funds will be joined together to be part of the Endowment Fund portfolio.
Endowment funds are necessary to ensure the continuation and well being of our congregation. All members are encouraged to help this important effort by contributing to this portfolio, whether as a specific named individual fund, or as a general donation. The donation can be spread over one, two, or three years, and can be paid via check, donation of appreciated stock, wills, or from the RMD of your IRA or 401K account. Your gift to the fund can be sent to the JCC Office. Please mark your check accordingly.
YAHRZEIT PLAQUES
Space is available for memorial plaques on the yahrzeit boards in the Sanctuary.
Here is the order form:
YAHRZEIT
KOL HAKAVOD
Please consider being a part of this campaign to supplement the clergy needs of our congregation. This is a separate, voluntary commitment and is additional to our low annual dues obligation. HERE IS THE LINK TO BRING UP THE DONATION FORM KOL HAKAVOD
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2025 MEMBERSHIP FORMS
Your support is so important to the continued success of the JCC.
Here is form for renewal:
RENEW NOW
And if you have been reading our Shabbat Reminder and other communications and have not yet joined our congregation, here is the new member form:
JOIN NOW
BE A PART OF THE WOMEN'S AUXILLARY
2025 DUES FORM HERE
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JCC FUNDS
Your gift to the JCC supports our Clergy, our Congregation and the Community.
ENDOWMENT FUND
This fund was established to assure the continuity of our JCC, and our ability to continue providing a full-service congregation to serve the Jewish people of the area. While a donation of any amount is encouraged, a donation of at least $50,000 allows the donor to name a special or specific Endowment Fund in memory or honor of a specific person event, or family.
GENERAL FUND
Donations to this fund are not earmarked but placed in the general administrative account. Donations to this fund can be in honor or memory of a person, event, or family.
KOL HAKAVOD FUND
Donations to this campaign supplement the clergy needs of our congregation.
RABBI’S DISCRETIONARY FUND
This fund, managed by the rabbi, allows donors to enable the rabbi to do the work of tzedakah in response to the needs of individuals, organizations and the community.
ZENA & JERRY JAY KIDDISH FUND
The Zena and Jerry Jay Kiddush Fund was established in memory of Rabbi Jay's parents to help provide funds for our Saturday morning kiddushes.
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JCC LEADERSHIP
OFFICERS
President- Phil Rosenzweig
1ST Vice President-Sherry Fruchterman
2ND Vice President-Diane Hoffman
3RD Vice President- Jon Geier
Treasurer- Stu Cofsky
Secretary- Cliff Denker
Immediate Past President -Michael Babst
BOARD MEMBERS
Howard Babbitt
Diane Buskirk
Lorna Klein
Ken Podos
Sondi Pripstein
Terri Robinovitz
David Shatz
Bonni Rubin-Sugarman
Rose Valentine
Ken Yudman
WOMEN'S AUXILIARY
President - Diane Buskirk
Treasurer - Suzy Geier
Secretary - Joanne Babbitt
Lorna Klein
Joyce Levine
Representative to the Board - Sondi Pripstein
Immediate Past President - Irene Babst
Rabbi Michael S. Jay, Spiritual Leader
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