There are so many wonderful cultural learning opportunities within our thriving Greater Buffalo Jewish Community. We've posted links here to the happenings in our community to keep you informed. If you have an announcement that you would like to see included, please email it to us!
Kesher Inclusion Instructor Needed at TBT
About Temple Beth Israel Anti-Semitic Hostage Event From JFS
As we reflect on events of this past week, we are reminded that we are still a distance from achieving equity and community harmony.
Jewish Family Servies of Western New York stands in solidarity with the members of Temple Beth Israel following the harrowing hostage event that took place outside of Dallas, Texas on Saturday, January 15, 2022. Further, we stand in community with all those who practice the Jewish faith and culture and all those who, like us, condemn antisemitism in any form.
We shall be supportive of all efforts by our sister agency, Jewish Family Service of Dallas, as it begins the process of supporting and healing their community. As trauma comes in many forms, with individuals coping with trauma in many ways, we stand ready to assist in any way possible.
Our agency also stands at the ready for our local community members for any support they may need during their own process of coping with the reverberating impacts felt nationwide and around the world.
While we are grateful of safe a conclusion of this event through the efforts of the FBI and all engaged law enforcement agencies, we must continue to speak against antisemitism and any form of hate.
Our sincere thoughts are with the families of all those impacted by this event and the community of Colleyville, Texas.
Jewish Family Servies of Western New York stands in solidarity with the members of Temple Beth Israel following the harrowing hostage event that took place outside of Dallas, Texas on Saturday, January 15, 2022. Further, we stand in community with all those who practice the Jewish faith and culture and all those who, like us, condemn antisemitism in any form.
We shall be supportive of all efforts by our sister agency, Jewish Family Service of Dallas, as it begins the process of supporting and healing their community. As trauma comes in many forms, with individuals coping with trauma in many ways, we stand ready to assist in any way possible.
Our agency also stands at the ready for our local community members for any support they may need during their own process of coping with the reverberating impacts felt nationwide and around the world.
While we are grateful of safe a conclusion of this event through the efforts of the FBI and all engaged law enforcement agencies, we must continue to speak against antisemitism and any form of hate.
Our sincere thoughts are with the families of all those impacted by this event and the community of Colleyville, Texas.
The Kol-Yehudim Show: New Buffalo Jewish Music Radio
https://wbny.buffalostate.edu/
On January 9, 2022 at 6am EST, radio history will be made as the first Buffalo based, strictly Jewish music radio program will begin broadcasting on 91.3 WBNY Buffalo.
To listen go to: https://wbny.buffalostate.edu/ and click Listen Live or download the Radio FX app and search for wbny.
The innovative "Cool Jewish Radio - The Kol Yehudim Show" has been a fixture every Sunday morning since 2016 from 6-10am on 1640 WJPR based out of Highland Park, New Jersey and broadcasting throughout the world on several streaming sites including 1640wjpr.com and the TuneInRadio App.
Mike Greenberg (Buffalo State '94) will take you on a 4 hour journey throughout the world of Jewish Music - weaving together different styles, genres and musicians of different backgrounds. This program is NOT Kol Isha as we feature both male and female artists.
You will get to hear both the classics of yesteryear and the new stars of Jewish music. Plus features such as "English songs recorded in Hebrew," "The Tantz Around the Breakfast Table," "Manginot Yisrael," and "A Bisl Chazzones."
For more information, please Contact: Mike Greenberg "The Kol Yehudim Show" Producer/Host, send an email to kolyehudimradio@gmail.com
To listen go to: https://wbny.buffalostate.edu/ and click Listen Live or download the Radio FX app and search for wbny.
The innovative "Cool Jewish Radio - The Kol Yehudim Show" has been a fixture every Sunday morning since 2016 from 6-10am on 1640 WJPR based out of Highland Park, New Jersey and broadcasting throughout the world on several streaming sites including 1640wjpr.com and the TuneInRadio App.
Mike Greenberg (Buffalo State '94) will take you on a 4 hour journey throughout the world of Jewish Music - weaving together different styles, genres and musicians of different backgrounds. This program is NOT Kol Isha as we feature both male and female artists.
You will get to hear both the classics of yesteryear and the new stars of Jewish music. Plus features such as "English songs recorded in Hebrew," "The Tantz Around the Breakfast Table," "Manginot Yisrael," and "A Bisl Chazzones."
For more information, please Contact: Mike Greenberg "The Kol Yehudim Show" Producer/Host, send an email to kolyehudimradio@gmail.com
The JRT New Season Presents: The Treasurer By Max Posner
https://www.jccbuffalo.org/event-list/category/jewish-repertory-theatre/2022-02/
The Treasurer By Max Posner
2 special events this month!
Behind the Scenes Open Rehearsal:
Wednesday, January 19 | 7:00-8:00 pm | In person at the Robert and Maxine Seller Theater
Join us for a peek behind the curtain into how a play becomes a full production! Sit in as Director Saul Elkin and the cast of The Treasurer walk you through how a scene is staged, the rehearsal process, and the details that bring a show together.
*Please note that all in attendance must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask. This will be a distanced event.
Benderson Virtual Panel Discussion:
Monday, January 31, 12:00 pm | Virtual on Zoom
Learn all about this fascinating production, the actor's process, and all of the things it takes to put on a full-scale production in 4 weeks!
Registration is required for both events. To register, please get in touch with Director of Performing Arts Adam Yellen at ayellen@jccbuffalo.org
RUNNING: FEBRUARY 3-27
SHOWTIMES: THURSDAY 7:30 PM
SATURDAY 3:30 PM AND 7:30 PM
SUNDAY 2:00 PM
Directed by JRT Artistic Director Saul Elkin
Starring: Darleen Pickering Hummert, John Kreuzer, David Lundy, and Alex Watts
This darkly funny, sharply intimate portrait chronicles the strained ties between a son and his aging mother. In the wake of her husband's death Ida Armstrong is broke, lonely, and fading fast. After spending a large sum of her children’s money her estranged son is forced to take on the role of The Treasurer: an arrangement that becomes untenable the more he questions his devotion to her. A hit in New York City and across the country, this poetic and thought-provoking show explores the bonds and divisions of families later in life, as well the possibilities of forgiveness and change.
“…something of a Glass Menagerie forty years on, with an unlikely but welcome touch of Neil Simon…[Posner] displays a brightly contemporary point of view with a keen comic sense.” —The Huffington Post.
2 special events this month!
Behind the Scenes Open Rehearsal:
Wednesday, January 19 | 7:00-8:00 pm | In person at the Robert and Maxine Seller Theater
Join us for a peek behind the curtain into how a play becomes a full production! Sit in as Director Saul Elkin and the cast of The Treasurer walk you through how a scene is staged, the rehearsal process, and the details that bring a show together.
*Please note that all in attendance must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask. This will be a distanced event.
Benderson Virtual Panel Discussion:
Monday, January 31, 12:00 pm | Virtual on Zoom
Learn all about this fascinating production, the actor's process, and all of the things it takes to put on a full-scale production in 4 weeks!
Registration is required for both events. To register, please get in touch with Director of Performing Arts Adam Yellen at ayellen@jccbuffalo.org
RUNNING: FEBRUARY 3-27
SHOWTIMES: THURSDAY 7:30 PM
SATURDAY 3:30 PM AND 7:30 PM
SUNDAY 2:00 PM
Directed by JRT Artistic Director Saul Elkin
Starring: Darleen Pickering Hummert, John Kreuzer, David Lundy, and Alex Watts
This darkly funny, sharply intimate portrait chronicles the strained ties between a son and his aging mother. In the wake of her husband's death Ida Armstrong is broke, lonely, and fading fast. After spending a large sum of her children’s money her estranged son is forced to take on the role of The Treasurer: an arrangement that becomes untenable the more he questions his devotion to her. A hit in New York City and across the country, this poetic and thought-provoking show explores the bonds and divisions of families later in life, as well the possibilities of forgiveness and change.
“…something of a Glass Menagerie forty years on, with an unlikely but welcome touch of Neil Simon…[Posner] displays a brightly contemporary point of view with a keen comic sense.” —The Huffington Post.
Buffalo to Israel Experience Tour 2022
https://buffalojewishfederation.org/bie/
New Adult Programs for 2022 at the JCC
https://onlineedge.jccbuffalo.org/OnlineEdge/programlist.html
J Flick Movie Club
Informal screenings of classic films will be shown monthly in the Maxine and Robert Seller Theater. Screenings will take place on the second Monday of the month beginning at 1:30 pm. Popcorn and refreshments will be provided.
Monday, January 10: Bringing Up Baby
To register and view complete schedule click here.
Play Readings and Conversations with the Brainstormers
Participate in monthly informal play readings, presented by the Brainstormers, a volunteer group of local seasoned actors. After each reading, the actors engage class participants in a discussion of the issue or dilemma dramatized in a way that encourages them to share their thinking with each other. In-person in the maxine and Robert Seller Theater.
Monday, January 31: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
To register and view complete schedule click here.
Harvesting Life's Wisdom for our Sageing Years
Honoring our wisdom, blossoming into Sage-hood in the Fall and Winter of our lives. Conversation with chant, breathwork, silence, gentle movement. Topics include: Who am I now? Dreams realized and yet to be. Fears, forgiveness, and more, each to help us heal and grow. Time for thoughtful inner looking, reflection, sharing, as we learn from each others stories that we are not alone. Feel free to bring a journal, sketch pad, or simply yourself, body-mind, spirit. Facilitated by Dr. Yonina Foster
Wednesday, January 12: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
To register and view complete schedule click here.
For a complete schedule of all virtual and in-person discussion groups and adult classes including Limud, Current Events, The New Yorker, Shakespeare and more! Winter classes are getting started - register today!
Informal screenings of classic films will be shown monthly in the Maxine and Robert Seller Theater. Screenings will take place on the second Monday of the month beginning at 1:30 pm. Popcorn and refreshments will be provided.
Monday, January 10: Bringing Up Baby
To register and view complete schedule click here.
Play Readings and Conversations with the Brainstormers
Participate in monthly informal play readings, presented by the Brainstormers, a volunteer group of local seasoned actors. After each reading, the actors engage class participants in a discussion of the issue or dilemma dramatized in a way that encourages them to share their thinking with each other. In-person in the maxine and Robert Seller Theater.
Monday, January 31: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
To register and view complete schedule click here.
Harvesting Life's Wisdom for our Sageing Years
Honoring our wisdom, blossoming into Sage-hood in the Fall and Winter of our lives. Conversation with chant, breathwork, silence, gentle movement. Topics include: Who am I now? Dreams realized and yet to be. Fears, forgiveness, and more, each to help us heal and grow. Time for thoughtful inner looking, reflection, sharing, as we learn from each others stories that we are not alone. Feel free to bring a journal, sketch pad, or simply yourself, body-mind, spirit. Facilitated by Dr. Yonina Foster
Wednesday, January 12: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
To register and view complete schedule click here.
For a complete schedule of all virtual and in-person discussion groups and adult classes including Limud, Current Events, The New Yorker, Shakespeare and more! Winter classes are getting started - register today!
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New Jewish Deli Coming to Downtown Buffalo
https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/bloom-and-rose
Bloom and Rose will bring Jewish deli to downtown Buffalo thanks to free rent contest
"The knish itself has kind of been our little beacon of, would Buffalo accept the idea of a really high-quality Jewish deli?" Zach Rosenblum added.
The five-person team bakes the little balls of dough at their commissary kitchen in Chandlerville and sells them at local farmer's markets, grocery stores, and online.
"Ideally we were going to just stick with knish and go more retail," Pagels said. "Try and see if we could produce them en masse."
That was before they entered the Make It on Main Contest this summer, to win a year of free rent at a little building sandwiched in between two others on Main Street in downtown Buffalo.
"The knish itself has kind of been our little beacon of, would Buffalo accept the idea of a really high-quality Jewish deli?" Zach Rosenblum added.
The five-person team bakes the little balls of dough at their commissary kitchen in Chandlerville and sells them at local farmer's markets, grocery stores, and online.
"Ideally we were going to just stick with knish and go more retail," Pagels said. "Try and see if we could produce them en masse."
That was before they entered the Make It on Main Contest this summer, to win a year of free rent at a little building sandwiched in between two others on Main Street in downtown Buffalo.
