Tisha B Av in the courtyard – J jweekly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jweekly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A year ago, things didn’t look toogood for Bay Area JCCs.
Furloughs, budget cuts and overall belt-tightening had set in among the community centers, which emptied out as Covid cases rose. Most hard hit were JCCs with fitness centers, which are crucial revenue sources.
But now that the worst of the pandemic is behind us (hopefully), the JCCs are slowly but surely returning to normal operations, gradually hiring back employees and turning the lights back on for in-person programs.
None of the Bay Area’s seven brick-and-mortar JCCs is completely back to normal, according to interviews with leaders from three of the area’s largest JCCs (all with fitness centers), and everyone said it would potentially take a couple of years for a full comeback.
May 5 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am Free
Yehonatan Indursky, who also writes for the show, talks about the hit Israel series and his own experiences within Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community. Presented by the Israeli Consulate, Jewish Silicon Valley and others.Event Website
Every so often, it’s useful to recall the immortal words of novelist William Faulkner: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” That insight certainly applies when it comes to our collective responsibility to honor the memory of Holocaust victims and to care for the survivors who are still with us.
Two stories in J. this week describe new local efforts to remember the Shoah.
One is educational: The Tri-Valley area of Alameda County will now be home to the newly formed East Bay Holocaust Education Center, which will conduct outreach to local schools, teaching the lessons of the Shoah largely through the arts.