Tag: New Brunswick
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Provident Bank Foundation provides grants to George Street Playhouse, LADACIN Network
The Provident Bank Foundation announced the recipients of its Third Cycle 2017 Major Grants, totaling $183,500 for 13 projects and programs across New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Locally, George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick received $25,000 to support George Street Playhouse’s Creative Dramatics in partnership with Irving Primary School in Highland Park for the expansion of…
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Cultural Christmas trees on display at St. Mary of Mount Virgin Church
The St. Anne’s Society of the Parish of the Visitation of St. Mary of Mount Virgin will hold a cultural Christmas with God display of Christmas trees after the 4 p.m. Mass on Dec. 9 and after all daytime masses on Dec. 10 and 17 at the CYO building behind the church, 192 Sanford St.,…
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Monroe police holding fourth annual toy drive
The Monroe Township Police Department is holding its fourth annual toy drive to benefit the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. Drop off unwrapped toys or non-monetary donations for children of all ages at the Monroe Township Police Department, 3 Municipal Plaza, Monroe, through Dec. 7. Due to…
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Jazz performance to have touch of New York, Israel and Brazil
The first program of the 2017-18 Ohavei Tarbut – Lovers of Jewish Culture series features Mattan Klein and Sound Tracks at 8 p.m. on Dec. 2 at Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, 222 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick. Klein’s new recording was conceived, sponsored, produced and recorded in Israel. The style belongs to the current generation of…
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Lawrence Brook Waterway cleanup scheduled for Nov. 18
The Lawrence Brook Watershed Partnership will hold a waterway cleanup of the Lawrence Brook Waterway beginning at 9 a.m. on Nov. 18 at Burnet Street at the junction with Edgebrook Road, New Brunswick. Rain date is noon on Nov. 19. For more information or to register, call 732-249-LBWP (5297) or visit www.lbwp.org.
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Scholar in Residence to visit Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple
Danny Siegel, an expert on philanthropy, will present different sessions as the Scholar in Residence at Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, 222 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick. After Shabbat service at 6 p.m. on Nov. 17, he will present “Shabbat and Mitzvah Heroes” during a dinner at 7 p.m. RSVP required. On Nov. 18, there will be an…
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Great Big Challah Bake set for Oct. 26
The second annual Middlesex County Great Big Challah Bake will be held at 7 p.m. on Oct. 26 at Rutgers Hillel, 70 College Ave., New Brunswick. The event is part of the global Shabbat Project, a grassroots movement to bring Jews together around the world through Shabbat. For more information, contact Sharon Kaslassi at [email protected]…
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Walk for Diane continues fight against breast cancer
The 5K “Walk for Diane” will serve its ninth year raising funds for women who are unable to afford procedures to detect breast cancer early, when it is most treatable. The walk, sponsored by The Amy Feiman Behar Foundation for Cancer Prevention, starts at 9 a.m. Oct. 29 at Buccleuch Park in New Brunswick, originating…
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Anshe Emeth collecting food for Yom Kippur
Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple is holding its annual High Holy Days Food Drive to help ease the hunger of those in the community whose fast does not end at sundown on Yom Kippur. There is need for macaroni and cheese, biscuit or pancake mix, canned vegetables and fruits, canned tomato products, powdered or condensed milk,…
