Program Description: This group will provide a safe and non-judgmental space for people to share their personal experiences and feelings, coping strategies, and firsthand experience raising neurodivergent individuals. The intention of these gatherings will be to give care takers the opportunity to connect with one another, share in the struggles of raising a neurodivergent individual, celebrate the wins, and feel less alone.

Suggested donation of $18 per meeting will go towards facilitating this group and providing additional resources for the community.

About the Group Leader: Nili Zaharony is a member of the local Jewish and Israeli communities. She is also the mother of three beautiful children, two of whom carry neurodivergent diagnoses. They have experienced their fair share of challenges, judgement, and exclusion - experiences she hope she can help alleviate for other families like hers.

When: Days of the week vary, meets from 6:30-7:30pm

• Wednesday, November 20th

• Monday, December 2nd

• Wednesday, December 18th

Where: David R. Kahn Community Campus

For more information: Gena.Brown@shalomraleigh.org

Program Description: “2024: A Regional Inflection Point or Is History Just Repeating Itself?” with Prof. Bob Moog

Do events happening now in the Middle East represent a new set of political, geographic and military realities for the area, as perhaps the '67 War did? Or is it simply more of the same that's been happening for quite a while, but now an Israel with restored deterrence? Because Prof Moog is an extremely popular speaker at JCC, his talks sell out quickly so you would be wise to register early.

Bob Moog, NCSU professor emeritus, School of Public & International Affairs, is a specialist in Middle East Politics and in comparative legal systems, Prof. Moog served as political consultant to Afghanistan, India, Nepal and Egypt. 

12:30pm - Box Lunches

1:00pm - Program

Where: David R. Kahn Community Campus

When: Wednesday, November 20, at 12:30pm

Cost: JCC Members Free, General Community $18

For assistance registering: registrar@shalomraleigh.org

Program Description: Dine with the Ladies Who Lunch at Milton's Pizza & Pasta!

When: Tuesday, November 19 from 12-1:30pm

Where: Milton’s Pizza & Pasta, 8853 Six Forks Rd, Raleigh, NC 27615

For more information: Leslie.Needham@shalomraleigh.org

Program Description: “Jerusalem Through the Ages: A Conversation”

Join us on Sunday, November 17th, 2024 for a panel discussion focusing on the new book, Jerusalem Through the Ages by Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism. This discussion will be moderated by Bart Ehrman, James A. Gray Distinguished Professorin Early Christian History. This is a fundraiser for the Robert Miller Graduate Student Excellence Fund with a suggested donation of $20. Hope to see you there!

Website for More Info: Click HERE to register for the event.

Program Description: Come meet your Jewish neighbors and the Federation Staff. Get a bagel and coffee on us!

Where: Boulevard West Cafe, 316 E Main St, Clayton, NC 27520

When: Friday, November 15 from 10am-12pm

For more information contact: leslie.needham@shalomraleigh.org

Program Description: “Anxiety in school-aged children: What is it and when should I be concerned?”

Hadassah and the Jewish Federation of Greater Raleigh welcome you to a psychoeducational program for parents, grandparents, and caregivers of school-aged children, featuring a panel of experts to help us understand what anxiety looks like in children and provide practical solutions for supporting anxious children.

 When: Thursday, November 14 from 7-8:30pm

Where: David R. Kahn Community Campus

Panelists:

Jill Madsen is the CEO of Jewish for Good at the Levin Jewish Community Center in Durham, North Carolina. Jewish for Good is an integrated organization that includes Federation, Jewish Family Services, the Jewish Community Foundation and other key communal agencies. Madsen has held this role since 2015. Madsen holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in early childhood education, and started her career in the classroom before moving into leadership roles that blended her educational background with her love for strategic planning and program development. She uses her passion and knowledge to offer strategic planning and governance consulting and coaching services to other nonprofit organizations. Madsen lives in Durham with her partner, Mike, and their dogs, Fenway and Telula, and she can always be found with a book.

Elizabeth (Liz) Zatz (M,Ed, LCMHC) is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Qualified Supervisor in North Carolina. She currently works as a Clinical Manager at Workplace Options, a Raleigh-based company which offers individuals and organizations a continuum of human-centered wellbeing solutions that address emotional, practical, and physical needs anytime, anywhere. Prior to 2019, Liz resided in Florida, where she provided intensive mental health services to children and families through a community agency, as well as individual, group, and school-based interventions in her role as an elementary school counselor. Liz is passionate about helping individuals and families engage in solutions that work for them- whether it is short-term mental health interventions or developing an ongoing care plan to facilitate positive change. 

Dr. Michelle Barrett is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and the Director of Psychosocial Treatment at Central Regional Hospital in Butner, NC. At CRH she is responsible for development and oversight of all programming for all patients, ages 5 and above, including oversight of two accredited schools, Pine Valley Elementary School and Bowling Green Middle and High School. Dr. Barrett works with children and adults with severe persistent mental health issues and behavioral issues. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Syracuse University, a Master Degree in General Psychology with a focus on Cognition from the City College of New York, a Master Degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Santa Barbara, and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology with a focus on Family Forensics from Antioch University Santa Barbara. Her research on Health Care Disparities has been published in many peer reviewed journals of Psychology and Psychiatry, she is a guest editor for several peer reviewed Psychiatric journals, and she has been asked to speak around the globe about her research on Humor and Trauma. Dr. Barrett grew up in South Florida, though she now lives in Raleigh, NC, with her husband and two children. Her family also owns Barrett Hatchery, LLC, in Raleigh, which means she spends much of her time surrounded by chicks, ducklings, and button quail chicks at the hatchery.

Program Description: Play Jeopardy with Dina Stambler from Arosa! Lunch will be sponsored by Arosa.

Where: David R. Kahn Community Campus

When: Thursday, November 14, 2024, at 12:30pm

Cost: JCC Members Free, General Community $8

For more information contact: leslie.needham@shalomraleigh.org

Kanof Lecture: “More Than Just Mosaics: The Ancient Synagogue at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee

Since 2011 Professor Jodi Magness has been directing excavations in the ancient village of Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee. The excavations have brought to light the remains of a monumental late Roman (circa 400 CE) synagogue building paved with stunning and unique mosaics, including biblical scenes and the first nonbiblical story ever discovered decorating an ancient synagogue. In this slide-illustrated lecture, Magness describes these exciting finds.

Click here to register.

Program Description: Hike, Hearty, Help, Hope, what do these words have in common? Yes, they all start with “H” but also, you can do one and provide for others members of our community by bringing Thanksgiving foods for the Jewish Federation Food Pantry. Please join other women for a 3.5 mile moderate hike and “do good.”

When: Sunday, November 10, 2024, at 9:30am

Where: Loblolly Trail, Umstead State Park, 2100 N. Harrison Ave, Cary, NC 27513 (Exit off of I-40)

Cost: JCC Members Free, General Community Free

For more information contact: gena.brown@shalomraleigh.org

HaMapah/The Map is a multimedia genealogical dance journey that traces the intersections of former Alvin Ailey dancer Adam McKinney’s African American, Native American, and Jewish heritages. HaMapah/The Map weaves contemporary dance with archival materials, personal interviews, Yiddish and American songs, and video set to traditional, contemporary, and classical music. In the piece directed by Daniel Banks, McKinney explores issues of identity, heritage, and ancestry.

As part of the program, DNAWORKS co-directors McKinney and Banks lead a community story circle with the audience about the core ideas of the performance.

Click here to purchase tickets.

Program Description: Gather around the fire pit and make s'mores with other 45-65 year old Jewish singles!

Where: David R. Kahn Community Campus

When: Thursday, November 7 from 7-9pm

For more information contact: leslie.needham@shalomraleigh.org

Program Description: Come out and meet all the wonderful moms you've been talking to on Facebook for years! Join us for lunch at Brier Creek Beer Garden.

Where: Brier Creek Beer Garden, 8521 Brier Creek Pkwy, Raleigh, NC 27617

When: Wednesday, November 6 from 12-1:30pm

For more information contact: leslie.needham@shalomraleigh.org

Program Description: Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action

Learn how to make a difference – and spread the word on how solutions to our Climate Crisis are available and affordable. As Jews, we are compelled to act, as our ancestors did, who faced extinction, with courageous action. The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our lifetimes.

Triangle’s Dayenu Circle will empower our Western Wake friends with “Climate Action tools” to address our heating planet earth. A quick review of the Climate Crisis will reveal how we are all impacted. Followed by the good news that solutions exist to “cool our planet,” and how they are gradually being implemented. The presentation will be enhanced by engaging participants interactively in meaningful and fun ways. The Renewable Energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable electric energy is happening – and we are all invited to participate.

The presentation will be given by Arthur and Anya Gordon. Now in retirement, Arthur founded and operated the Irregardless Cafe & Catering in Raleigh for 45 years. Irregardless Cafe was the first restaurant in North Carolina to enforce “No Smoking,” 25 years before the state of North Carolina mandated it. The Cafe also used Solar Panels to heat the hot water, and operated the Well-Fed Community Garden, 3 miles from the Cafe, which grew organic produce served at the Cafe. Anya served on the City of Raleigh’s Environmental Advisory Board as it’s Chairperson and cares passionately about our planet.

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein

Where: Beth Shalom, 5713 Yates Mill Pond Rd. Raleigh, NC 27606

When: Tuesday, November 5 from 12-2pm

Cost: $10

For more information: gena.brown@shalomraleigh.org

Program Description: For Arthritis and Fall Prevention

Originating as a martial art in ancient China, Tai Chi is one of the most effective exercises for health of mind and body.  Although an art with great depth of knowledge and skill, it can be easy to learn, and participants will soon notice its health benefits.  For many, it continues as a lifetime journey.

Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention is based on the Sun style of Tai Chi.  This is the newest of the tai chi styles.  The beginning form that will be taught has 21 movements.  It is symmetrical and is performed in a standing position which may be modified to a seated position.  The form has fluid movements, integrating mind and body. 

Benefits to practicing Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention

• Relieves pain and decreases stiffness

• Improves balance and reduces falls

• Builds muscular strength and stamina

• Improves ability to perform daily tasks

• Improves concentration and memory

When: Tuesdays from 9:30-10:15am

• November 5, 12, 19 & 26

• December 3 & 10

Where: David R. Kahn Community Campus

Instructor: Sharon Mills has experience as a physical therapist and as an exercise instructor.  She is certified by the Tai Chi for Health Institute to teach Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention. Sharon has been teaching Tai Chi in Raleigh for 10 years.

Clothing: Please wear loose, comfortable clothes and shoes that are suitable for exercise.

Cost: JCC Members $56, General Community $75

Registration includes all 6 sessions.  Prior registration is required, walk-ins will not be able to be accommodated.

Program Description: This group will provide a safe and non-judgmental space for people to share their personal experiences and feelings, coping strategies, and firsthand experience raising neurodivergent individuals. The intention of these gatherings will be to give care takers the opportunity to connect with one another, share in the struggles of raising a neurodivergent individual, celebrate the wins, and feel less alone.

Suggested donation of $18 per meeting will go towards facilitating this group and providing additional resources for the community.

About the Group Leader: Nili Zaharony is a member of the local Jewish and Israeli communities. She is also the mother of three beautiful children, two of whom carry neurodivergent diagnoses. They have experienced their fair share of challenges, judgement, and exclusion - experiences she hope she can help alleviate for other families like hers.

When: Days of the week vary, meets from 6:30-7:30pm

• Monday, November 4th

• Wednesday, November 20th

• Monday, December 2nd

• Wednesday, December 18th

Where: David R. Kahn Community Campus

For more information: Gena.Brown@shalomraleigh.org

Program Description: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. 

But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.  

Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.

When: Monday, November 4, 2024, at 12:30pm

Where: David R. Kahn Community Campus

Cost: JCC Members only

For assistance registering: registrar@shalomraleigh.org

Program Description: Chair Yoga led by Phyllis Kritz

Chair yoga is a great way to relax and adaptable for a variety of abilities.

When: Mondays, 11:30am-12:15pm

• November 4, December 2, January 6, February 3, March 3, April 7, May 5, June 2

Where: David R. Kahn Community Campus

Cost for entire series (8 sessions): JCC Members–$36, General Community–$54

For more information contact: maxine.carr@shalomraleigh.org

Program Description: "Conserving Judaic Objects in Your Home and at NC Museum of Art"
NC Museum of Art Curator of Judaic Art, Sean Burrus & Corey Riley, Objects Conservator 

Bring your Judaica objects from home (one object per person) for NC Museum of Art Curator of Judaic Art, Sean Burrus, and Objects Conservator, Corey Riley, to advise you on how to take care of your object. 

First on the program, Sean and Corey will share how the Museum takes care of its incredible collection of Jewish ceremonial objects, including conservation methods and treatments. Learn about recent conservation campaigns on Judaica including an 18th century Italian Torah curtain and a 19th century Algerian Torah crown.

12:30pm - Box Lunches

1:00pm - Program

Where: David R. Kahn Community Campus

When: Wednesday, October 30, at 12:30pm

Cost: JCC Members Free, General Community $18

For assistance registering: registrar@shalomraleigh.org

Decentering the 1948 Palestine War: From the Local to the Global with Derek Penslar, Harvard University

This talk links the Palestine Question with the formation of a new global political order after the Second World War. Between 1947 and 1949, debates about Palestine within the United Nations pulled dozens of countries directly into the determination of the land’s fate. A complex mixture of national interests and transnational sympathies shaped attitudes towards the partition of Palestine and the ensuing Arab-Israeli war. Throughout the world, high diplomacy was often in sync with public opinion. The war riveted the attention of the world – for reasons that still apply in our own day.

Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. His books include Jews and the Military: A History (2013), Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (2020; German ed. 2022); and Zionism: An Emotional State (2023).  He is currently writing a book titled The War for Palestine, 1947-1949: A Global History. He is a past president of the American Society for Jewish Research, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford.

Website for More Info: https://jewishstudies.unc.edu/event/penslar/

Program Description: Join us for a catered lunch provided by The Cardinal! Our special guest will be archaeologist Shane Petersen.

Where: David R. Kahn Community Campus

When: Thursday, October 10, 2024, at 12:30pm

Cost: JCC Members Free, General Community $8

For more information contact: leslie.needham@shalomraleigh.org

Program Description: Come join PJ Library families in the North Raleigh & Wake Forest area to celebrate Rosh Hashanah! Our PJ Library Parent Volunteer, Gabby, will have activities, snacks, and a story time that align with the Rosh Hashanah theme. For more information about the event and to RSVP, email Gabby Bush at .

When: Sunday, October 6 from 2-5pm

Where: Forest Ridge Park, 2100 Old North Carolina 98 Hwy, Wake Forest, NC 27587

For more information and to RSVP: gabriellabush88@gmail.com