The Chai Center Purim Video

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Purim at the Chai Center!

Ah Purim, a day of feasting and celebration! And this year the Chai Center is having special activities all Purim weekend. On Saturday night, we are having an ESPM night – Extreme Sports Purim Madness! Whether you’re a Nets fan or a Knicks fan, a Rangers or an Islanders fan, come by the Chai Center and have some fun! There will be ball park food, music, and a Megillah reading. And if you’re a member, it’s only six dollars per person, or twenty four for the entire family. For non-members it’s barely any more. It all starts at seven o’ clock, so mark the calendar now.

Then, for Purim day, we have a whole morning of events planned. At eight we begin the day with morning services. At eight forty five, we have a first Megillah reading followed by a community breakfast at nine thirty. There will be a second Megillah reading at ten thirty and then, at eleven, the talented performer Rabbi Shalom Mendelshon is back by popular demand for a Juggling and Fire Show!

For dinner, we’ll have a delicious catered Purim meal at five followed by an evening of relaxation and celebration. RSVP today to reserve your place, because tickets are only twenty five dollars for adults and fifteen for kids, and with food so good, and prices so low, spots are sure to fill.

We look forward to seeing you for Purim, at the Chai Center!

Stimulating Events for Kids and Parents at the Chai Center NY!

Instead of leaving your kids at home to watch tv and laze around this President’s Day break, give them a chance to do something different. The Chai Center NY is offering a camp from Monday through Thursday of President’s Week (the 15th -18th) for kids from toddler years to 5th grade.

You can feel secure knowing that your kids are in a caring Jewish environment that has plenty of learning, art and recreation. There are field trips and plenty of activities planned to keep your child excited and engaged.

And if you’re feeling a little bored and restless this winter, the Chai Center NY is offering adult education classes. We have one for every day of the week! You can try the Hebrew Reading Crash Course on Wednesdays –because if you’re like me, your Hebrew could use the practice! And maybe the Kabbalah course too, which goes on four times a week. If you really want to think about life in a different way, the Tanya, a mystic Jewish book, will help you understand and cultivate life changing practices.

It can get tedious, these winter days, but the Chai Center has something for everyone. So whether it’s you or your kids you want to keep active, stop by the Chai Center for some winter fun.

Calling All Sisters!

The Chai Center provides a community for Jewish women to come together and discuss our womanhood. If you’ve been feeling lost, or out of touch with your Judaism, then come to celebrate your strength and rediscover what it means to be a woman.

Together we learn about what it means to be a woman, without men, and how a married life can still provide time for your self. Through events like yoga and kaballah, we can help you to explore your spirituality and understand how to live life every day the best way you can.

And activities like wine tastings, cooking classes and museum trips will allow you to explore new facets of life that are without, and discover opportunities that are difficult to exploit alone. So come to the Chai Center Sisterhood and make friends, learn about yourself, and what it means to be a strong, beautiful Jewish woman.

Matchmaker, Matchmaker…

As a Jewish single, I had been dating around the city for three years. It’s so tiresome to meet men online only to find out how boring they actually are in real life. When I realized that I had had enough, I asked my mother’s advice. She told me to go to my synagogue and try to meet a man there, but I was reluctant. So I found the next best thing: the Chai Center. I applied and sent in my picture to their singles program and the following week I got a phone call. Desperate, I met the man who they set me up with, but at the restaurant, I was pleasantly surprised! Not only was he handsome and sweet, but he’s a doctor. Needless to say, we got along really well.

Now Jerry and I have been together eight months, and the other day he proposed to me. I have never been so happy as I am now! And to think, after all those blind dates, and silly internet services, I finally found someone in the place I was least suspecting. There’s a reason we Jews are so good at matchmaking, and so now I feel silly saying, “Who knew!”

Jewish Nightlife for Teens at the Chai Center

My teenagers are just two years apart and they’re at the age where they’re starting to think about the opposite sex. I want them to be safe, and meet nice young girls, but it’s hard for them at school. When I first told them about the Chai Center Nightlife for Grades 9-11 on Saturday nights, they weren’t too enthusiastic, but they trust their mother.

So I brought them to the Chai and when I came back to pick them up, you should have heard the stories they told me! My older one met a lovely young girl, he said, while little Jerry was with his friends. And when it was time for the next social, they were ready to go. Usually David, my big boy never tells me about girls, but after the Chai Center he wasn’t bashful at all. I highly recommend the Chai Center Nightlife if you have teenagers you don’t know what to do with.