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From Hidden to Seen: Shabbat Weekend of Recovery and Awakening
From Hidden to Seen: Shabbat Weekend of Recovery and Awakening
Presented by 14Y Selah in partnership with the Riverdale Y, Congregation Tehillah, Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale-The Bayit, the Kehilah of Riverdale, Riverdale Temple, YCT Rabbinical School, Yeshivat Maharat, with support from UJA-Federation of New York. In Parashat Shemot, the story of Exodus begins not with grand miracles but with small acts of noticing — the midwives who protect life, the daughter of Pharaoh who draws Moshe from the water, and a young man who pauses to look at a burning bush and truly see. Transformation, Torah teaches, begins when we open our eyes to what has been hidden — the pain we’ve ignored, the potential we’ve forgotten, the holiness already present in our lives. At 14Y Selah, this parasha speaks to the heart of recovery and awakening. Healing begins when we allow ourselves to be seen, when we speak what has been unspoken, and when we stand with those still in the shadows. Like the midwives and Moshe, we too can be part of a story that turns pain into possibility. This Shabbat, we gather to honor the courage it takes to begin again — to be seen, to see each other, and to believe that liberation starts right where we are. Join us for an evening of song, nourishment, and connection, followed by an immersive Saturday retreat of reflection and renewal. What to Expect Friday Evening | 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM Opening circle and community welcome Candle lighting, Kiddush, and Motzi before the meal Kosher Shabbat dinner served at HIC, with support from Riverdale Y spiritual leaders Guided conversation and song circl Saturday Afternoon | 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Learning and interactive teaching on Parashat Shemot Experiential workshop connecting Jewish values and recovery practice Sharing circle and community reflection Havdalah ceremony to close the weekend Community Values & Accessibility All meals are kosher and included in registration. Substance-free environment honoring the recovery community. Pluralistic community: we welcome and respect all levels of Jewish observance and practice. All are welcome, no prior Jewish or recovery experience required. Family-friendly and accessible space. Childcare will be provided.

Friday, 09, 18.00 - Friday, 09, 20.00 Bronx, NY _$25

Beginners Hebrew Conversational Class
Beginners Hebrew Conversational Class
Get ready to immerse yourself in the world of Hebrew conversations with our fun and interactive Beginners Hebrew Conversational Class!

Tuesday, 06, 19.00 - Tuesday, 06, 20.30 Great Neck, NY _$25

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Screening of Ziyara
Screening of Ziyara
In Arabic, Ziyara (زيارة) means visit to the saints. Celebrated filmmaker Simone Bitton embarks on a personal road trip across Morocco, tracing the remnants of the country’s once-thriving Jewish community. In the 1950s, Morocco was home to 300,000 Jews; today, only a small fraction remain, yet their saints’ tombs endure—cared for by Muslim guardians who preserve their memory. Through close examination of synagogues, shrines, and village records, Bitton uncovers stories of coexistence, loss, and endurance. Ziyara is both a meditation on migration and a hopeful reflection on shared heritage, revealing a delicate thread between past and present, tradition and modernity. As the camera gathers stories, smiles, and blessings, it patiently repairs connections long thought severed.

Thursday, 16, 18.30 - Thursday, 16, 21.00 New York, NY _$25

Israel @ 78: Yom Ha’atzmaut Celebration
Israel @ 78: Yom Ha’atzmaut Celebration
Just after 4 PM on May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion pounded his gavel to call to order the auspicious ceremony at the Tel Aviv Art Museum, declaring the establishment of Eretz Yisrael. Seventy-eight years later, we gather to celebrate that moment when our hope of 2,000 years was realized.

Friday, 24, 18.00 - Friday, 24, 19.45 New York, NY _$25

The Israeli Opera’s Mothers
The Israeli Opera’s Mothers
Our founding matriarchs have long taken back seats to their husbands. In the Bible, we learn a few names, but we hear nothing about how Sarah felt when Abraham offered to sacrifice Isaac without consulting her, about the pain of sisters Rachel and Leah over being married to the same man, Jacob, or about the scores of nameless women who raised the children, fought in battles and helped write Jewish history. Now, the Israeli Opera has flipped the script, telling the Genesis stories from the point of view of women, giving voice not only to Sarah, Rachel and Leah but to biblical females unseen. Following the success of our recent performance of The Israeli Opera’s Theodor, The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center is proud to welcome the creator and principal performers of Mothers: Anat Czarny as Hagar and Leah Daniela Sklorka as Rebecca and Rachel Shay Block as Sarah Yael Levita as God’s voice David Sebba, Librettist, Composer and Musical Director Shirit Lee Weiss, Stage Director

Thursday, 30, 18.30 - Thursday, 30, 20.15 New York, NY _$25

The First Jews of Auschwitz
The First Jews of Auschwitz
Eighty-one years ago, Red Army troops marched through the gates of Auschwitz and confronted the vestiges of the horrific industrial killing factory: the corpses, bones and ashes of more than 1.1 million people slaughtered there and the 7,000 skeletal prisoners who’d proven too ill or weak to be sent off on death marches by Nazis attempting to hide their crimes. To commemorate that day in January 1945, we take you back to the first days of the concentration camp with an interactive event built around the screening of an award-winning documentary film about the first official Jewish transport sent to it, 999: The Forgotten Girls. The young unmarried Slovakian Jewish women on that transport were rounded up by their government with the promise of a few months of paid factory work in Germany, sorely needed income for families whose businesses had been seized and jobs had been taken away. They found neither factory work nor wages: just the agony of slave labor, brutality and starvation at Auschwitz. Weaving together first-person testimony and archival materials, the film tells the long-ignored story of the Slovakian government’s fervor to rid the country of Jews and the young women who managed to survive three years of living hell.

Tuesday, 27, 18.00 - Tuesday, 27, 20.00 New York, NY _$25

Unsilenced: The Women of Genesis
Unsilenced: The Women of Genesis
In the run-up to The Israeli Opera’s performance of Mothers on April 30, we invite you to deepen your understanding of the matriarchs whose stories have been ignored. Join us for an evening of thoughtful conversation with distinguished rabbis and scholars exploring the lives, legacies and lasting influence of the often-overlooked – frequently nameless – women who shaped Jewish history, tradition and biblical narrative.

Wednesday, 29, 18.30 - Wednesday, 29, 19.45 New York, NY _$25

Dr. Ronnie Perelis: Crisis and Creativity
Dr. Ronnie Perelis: Crisis and Creativity
Jews thrived within the multicultural society of medieval Spain, creating a rich and dynamic culture of Torah scholarship, poetic and artistic creativity and cutting-edge science and philosophy. But the vital, if uneasy, relationship with their Christian and Muslim neighbors suffered a devastating blow in the summer of 1391, when anti-Jewish riots raged across the peninsula and left thousands of forced converts in their aftermath. The tensions between the newly converted Jews, the conversos, and their Christian neighbors led to the rise of the Inquisition and the eventual expulsion of all Jews in 1492. This lecture will explore how the vibrant Jewish community faced the challenges of religious violence, inquisitorial persecution and expulsion. Ronnie Perelis’s research explores connections between the Jewish and wider Iberian communities with an emphasis on the dynamics of religious transformation within the context of crypto-Jewish life. Associate Professor of Sephardic Studies and director of the International Affairs Program at Yeshiva University, he is author of Blood and Faith.

Tuesday, 19, 19.00 - Tuesday, 19, 20.15 New York, NY _$25

Dr. Jerrilynn D. Dodds: Beyond Tolerance
Dr. Jerrilynn D. Dodds: Beyond Tolerance
Medieval Spain has long been seen through warring lenses: as an idyllic, tolerant society where Christians, Jews and Muslims coexisted in harmony — or as a world of unceasing antagonism based on religious animosity. Recently, however, scholars have limned a more complex picture that reflects the diverse political and social contexts in which Jews lived and interacted with Christians and Muslims over seven centuries. That complexity is revealed in the art of and about Spanish Jews. This evening we will explore how it is manifested in the decorative carpet pages of Hebrew Bibles, remarkable Haggadot — some with figural paintings, in the grand synagogues of Toledo and Cordoba, as well as in newly discovered and excavated synagogue buildings. Jerrilynn D. Dodds is a scholar focused on how religious groups form their identities through art and architecture. Former dean and chief academic officer of Sarah Lawrence College, she now teaches art history there and has curated exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Alhambra.

Tuesday, 14, 19.00 - Tuesday, 14, 20.15 New York, NY _$25

Dr. Sarah Abrevaya Stein: Family Papers
Dr. Sarah Abrevaya Stein: Family Papers
After their expulsion from Spain, thousands of Sephardic families made their way to the bustling port of Salonica, then part of the Ottoman Empire, becoming the majority of the city’s residents by the early 16th century. Among them was the sprawling Levy clan and, over the centuries, as leading publishers and editors, the family chronicled modern Sephardic life across the empire. The wars of the twentieth century, however, redrew borders and transformed the Levys from Ottomans to Greeks. Relatives soon emigrated, stretching the familial diaspora from Greece to Western Europe, Israel, Brazil and India. In time, the Holocaust nearly eviscerated the family, as it did close to 90 percent of the Jewish population of Salonica. This session, based on Stein’s award-winning Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century, will trace an emblematic Sephardi journey across the arc of a century and the breadth of the globe. Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s Family Papers was named a Best Book of 2019 by The Economist and an Editor’s Choice by The New York Times Book Review. Professor of History and Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA, she is author of nine other books and has won both a Guggenheim Fellowship and National Jewish Book Awards.

Tuesday, 17, 19.00 - Tuesday, 17, 20.15 New York, NY _$25

Latest People

Lauren Linn
Lauren Linn
I’m Lauren, a Holistic and solution-oriented psychotherapist licensed in the state of New York, and founder of Every Body Therapy. I practice through a social justice, trauma-informed, body liberationist, and Health at Every Size (HAES)® lens. Along with my clients, I aim to co-create a therapeutic space that is grounded in empathy, collaboration, healing, and insight. A session with me will feel both supportive and challenging. I aim to encourage you to embrace discomfort in order to get to the root of the issue. From there, we will work as a team to process, honor, and heal whatever lies beneath. I contribute the clinical expertise, and you contribute your own insight and experience. I hold two B.A.s from Boston University in Psychology & Philosophy and Forensic Developmental Psychology. I also received my Masters in Clinical Social Work from The Columbia University School of Social Work. I am ASDAH, NASW, and EMDRIA affiliated. I am IFS and EMDR trained and have post-graduate training in Substance Use/Chemical Dependency from the Yale School of Medicine as well as in CBT-E. In addition to my private practice work, I act as a guest facilitator for Global Girls Prep's Women-In-Action program, connecting with students who are interested in deepening their learning of body politics and the relevant systemic and societal harm. I also offer consulting for those looking to further their mental health competency within their workplace or school.

New York, NY

Rachel Haskell
Rachel Haskell
Strong Voice and Compassionate Representation. Meet Rachel. Client-focused and results driven NY/NJ/MA employment attorney. I handle severance negotiations, workplace discrimination, unpaid wage and overtime pay recovery, retaliation, and wrongful termination. So call. Let's find your solution. Ms. Haskell was previously employed in Mr. Davis’ practice at a predecessor firm where she gained valuable experience on a wide range of employment matters, including sitting second chair at a class action mediation that resulted in a $3.75 million dollar settlement for overtime pay owed to thousands of call center employees. Ms. Haskell also first chaired a mediation session in the matter of Jacobs et al. v. Major Energy Services LLC/Respond Power et al., a nationwide class action filed on behalf of a class of marketing representatives. During law school, she worked as a law clerk for the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office in the District of Massachusetts, and for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Legal Unit. Ms. Haskell holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she achieved Deans’ List honors, and a Juris Doctor from Northeastern University’s School of Law. Ms. Haskell is admitted to the New York and Massachusetts state bars

New York, NY

Melissa Needle
Melissa Needle
Attorney Melissa Needle is a lifetime Connecticut resident. She was born in New Haven, raised in Fairfield, and now resides in Westport with her family. Attorney Needle is a third generation attorney with deep family roots in Connecticut. Her father, Attorney Charles Needle, was a founder of the Connecticut firm Zeldes, Needle & Cooper in 1971. Since her admission to the Connecticut Bar in 1990, Melissa has exclusively practiced divorce and family law. Melissa started Needle | Cuda: Divorce and Family Law in 2010. The American Institute of Family Law Attorneys named Needle | Cuda a Connecticut Top 10 Best Firm in Client Satisfaction in 2019, 2020, and 2021. Attorney Needle is an active litigator with an impressive track record. Many of the cases in which Melissa appears involve high net worth divorce property division, complex business valuations, highly contested custody, and petitions for child relocation. She is well-known in Connecticut courts as a forceful, but fair fighter; an attorney with great integrity; and as a worthy adversary who does not shy away from litigation if that path is the best opportunity for her client to reach an equitable solution. Melissa understands that divorce is not just about the dissolution of marriage or stop-gap solutions but helping clients develop and negotiate a comprehensive plan for the rest of their lives.

Westport, CT

Latest Jewish Businesses and Organizations

Syracuse Jewish Law Student Association
Syracuse Jewish Law Student Association
At the heart of Syracuse University's College of Law lies the Jewish Law Student Association, a student-led organization that brings together future legal professionals with a passion for understanding Jewish legal traditions and their relevance to contemporary practice. Established within the Syracuse, NY law school community, this association embodies the values of intellectual curiosity, cultural appreciation, and professional excellence. The organization serves as a welcoming community for law students seeking to explore the rich history and ongoing evolution of Jewish law while developing meaningful friendships with classmates who share their interests. By joining the association, members become part of a supportive network that recognizes the importance of cultural and religious perspectives in legal education and practice. The Syracuse Jewish Law Student Association is committed to creating an inclusive environment where students can discuss, debate, and learn from one another in a collegial atmosphere. The group's activities and initiatives reflect the broader commitment of Syracuse University's College of Law to preparing well-rounded legal professionals who understand the diverse contexts in which law operates. Located in Syracuse, NY, the association draws strength from its position within one of the region's premier legal education institutions. Members benefit from access to the law library, career services, and other resources that support their academic and professional growth. The association represents the diversity of thought and background that characterizes the law school community, fostering connections that often extend beyond the classroom into lifelong professional relationships among Syracuse's legal community.

Syracuse, NY

CUNY Jewish Law Students Association
CUNY Jewish Law Students Association
Founded as part of the City University of New York's commitment to making legal education accessible and affordable, CUNY Law's Jewish Law Students Association represents the school's core values of diversity, inclusion, and social justice. Located in Long Island City, the association brings together law students who are passionate about understanding how Jewish traditions, values, and legal principles can contribute to meaningful social change and community advocacy. CUNY Law, established in 1983 with a mission to train outstanding public interest lawyers, has consistently been recognized among the nation's top law schools for diversity of student body, faculty, and perspective. The Jewish Law Students Association embodies this commitment by creating space for students to explore their Jewish identity while developing as socially conscious legal professionals. The organization recognizes that diversity of experience, background, and thought generates invaluable learning and strengthens the legal profession's capacity to serve all communities. Operating within a law school community that is intimately aware of the effects of racism, discrimination, and systemic injustice, the CUNY Jewish Law Students Association connects students who are committed to redressing inequities and pursuing justice. The association provides mentorship, networking, and educational opportunities rooted in the belief that lawyers have a responsibility to address root causes of oppression. By fostering relationships among Jewish law students and allies in Long Island City, the association supports the development of attorneys who will use their legal training to create transformative change and build a more equitable society.

Long Island City, NY

Brooklyn Law Jewish Law Students Association
Brooklyn Law Jewish Law Students Association
The Jewish Law Students Association represents a cornerstone of student life at Brooklyn Law School, located in Brooklyn, NY, where it brings together law students with shared interests in Jewish legal tradition, ethics, and community service. As a student-led organization within one of the nation's most inclusive law schools, the association reflects Brooklyn Law School's decades-long commitment to access, diversity, and meaningful legal education since 1901. At its heart, the Jewish Law Students Association exists to build community among students who seek to understand and apply Jewish legal principles within contemporary legal practice. The organization creates spaces for intellectual dialogue, professional mentorship, and collaborative learning—values that align perfectly with Brooklyn Law School's mission of empowering lawyers to meet the demands of a new world of law. Members benefit from the school's culture of inclusion and its recognition that diverse perspectives strengthen legal education and practice. Brooklyn Law School's extensive network of over 24,000 alumni spanning 50 countries and multiple industries provides the association with invaluable mentorship and professional connections. The school's outstanding student body, representing 42 states and seven countries, creates a uniquely diverse and intellectually rich environment where students from different backgrounds collaborate and learn from one another. This diversity extends to the school's commitment to public service and social justice, reflected in its nationally ranked clinical and public interest law programs. The Jewish Law Students Association stands as a testament to Brooklyn Law School's foundational values of inclusion since its inception. Operating within a law school celebrated for its practical training excellence and intellectual rigor, the association empowers students to explore the meaningful intersections between Jewish legal heritage and modern legal practice, all while building lasting relationships within the Brooklyn legal community and beyond.

Brooklyn, NY

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