Lag BaOmer Party on May 2nd!

Next week at the Chai Center NY, to celebrate Lag BaOmer, Dix Hills Jewish center will be at Caledonia Park for sports, games, face painting, team building activities, a scavenger hunt, and water fun!

Light refreshments will be served and everyone will have a good time because the Chai Center NY Hebrew School and Community Center are teaming up. Just imagine, a green field with children running and playing about, soccer and games under the sun.

A Sunday morning of fun is less than a week away. The party lasts from 9:30 – 11:30, so you still have the rest of the day afterwards. It’s a great occasion to bring the kids out in the morning to get their ya- yas out. Then you can take everyone for a haircut to celebrate the coming of warm weather, and Lag BaOmer! There won’t be any bonfires, but there will still be lots of partying!

The Chai Center NY for the Dix Hills Jewish center is always hosting fun events like this. Check our blog weekly to stay in the loop, or you could miss out! RSVP is mandatory, so that we know how many people to expect and how many refreshments and stations to have. We can’t wait to see you!

Classes at the Chai Center NY!

At the Chai Center NY there are tons of available classes and opportunities to better yourself. There’s a different class for every day of the week. On Sundays at the Chai Center NY, there is Hebrew School for adults, a great way to prepare to read the Torah in the tongue of our forefathers. Mondays is Jewish Law day and Tuesdays this spring is a class about the Holocaust. On Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings you can get your daily dose of Kabbalah, a 45 minute long philosophical inquiry into what it means to live as a human in the universe of our Creator.

On Thursdays, Jewish women can experience Dix Hills Jewish center in a special way: through a Torah class designed to discuss the role and powers of femininity in Judaism. And on Saturday mornings, in homage to Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, we offer a class about how to use the Torah in our modern times.

You don’t have to be an adult to experience the benefits of learning at Jewish Long Island. Every Monday, story time supper is a perfect way for kids ages 3-8 to read and learn together about Judaism and traditional values and mores. Visit the Chai Center today to start learning and understanding Judaism and yourself more completely.

Hope and Tragedy: The Holocaust and Judaism

The Holocaust was arguably the worst form of attempted genocide the world has ever known. To think that this period occurred just a few generations ago is incredible. Such evil and wickedness has not been forgotten, and never will be. Remembering the Holocaust and the survivors of such dark times restores hope and faith in the strength of humanity despite any atrocities we see in our millennial epoch.

The Chai Center NY is proud to present a six week lecture series beginning at the end of April. These Dix Hills Jewish talks will feature Rabbi Avraham Lehr discussing questions such as “What does Jewish faith say about our people and tragedy?” “How do we develop the kind of faith and optimism necessary to understand and encounter events as terrible as the Holocaust?” “How do we respond to this kind of suffering, and what does it mean to view the suffering of another?”

This philosophical inquiry delves into the human consciousness as we examine basic human and Jewish values that have helped our people to deal with a history of diaspora, struggle, and success. So join the Chai Center NY for this stimulating intellectual discussion as we come to understand the power of faith and Judaism to anchor hope and happiness in our lives.

Chess at The Chai Center NY!

Chess as we know it has been around since medieval times and its predecessor, chatrang has been around since the early 7th century. This game was played in Persia and India and with the conquests of Islam slowly spread throughout Europe. By the 13th century, pawns gained the ability to move two spaces on their first move and queens and bishops acquired their modern powers. Chess became competitive in the 19th century as the sport became accepted widely as more than just a coffeehouse game.

Today the youngest chess champion in the world is a Norwegian, age 19, named Magnus Carlsen. At 13 he was the third youngest Grandmaster in history.

On April 17th at the Chai Center NY, there will be a national chess champion, who will play 20 games simultaneously. Not only that, but there will be a blindfolded chess exhibition, and brief lessons following. Winners of the games will take home the pieces and chess boards they play on. There is a $20 fee to play, benefitting the Chai Center NY. If you don’t feel up to play but still want to watch a chess master at the Dix Hills Jewish Center, it’s $10 or a discount $30 for families.