Discover @ the JCC Partners with JGDC to Combat Genetic Diseases

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Discover@theJCC, JCC Association’s holistic wellness initiative, has partnered with the Jewish Genetic Disease Consortium (JGDC) to provide important information to couples and families dealing with genetic disorders.  Randy Gold, the 2011 JFNA Communal Hero, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, has been struggling with his daughter Eden’s diagnosis of ML4, one of the 19 testable Jewish genetic diseases. [...]

Washington Heights Y Brings Community Together

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Most days, the Jewish and Dominican residents of the Inwood neighborhood at the northern tip of Manhattan have little contact. They move in different social circles, their kids go to different schools, they work in different fields. One place brings them together—the YM-YWHA of Washington Heights-Inwood–and no other Y program does that more deliberately than [...]

Congratulations to Our Honorary Chair Mort Mandel

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Morton L. Mandel, long-time board member and honorary chair of JCC Association, has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious learned societies. Founded in 1780 by John Adams, John Hancock, and other illustrious patriots, the academy functions as an independent research center that draws [...]

JCC Association Enters into Day Camp Project with Grinspoon Foundation

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The Harold Grinspoon Foundation, best known for their PJ Library program and the Grinspoon Institute for Jewish Philanthropy (GIJF), has joined JCC Association as a partner in a new national initiative to strengthen our day camps. Many of our JCC overnight camps have benefited from participation in the GIJF, in which the camps are assigned [...]

Registration Open for January Executive Seminars

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Harris Rosen will be a keynote speaker at the Executive Seminars to be held in Orlando on January 22-25, 2012. The CEO of Rosen Hotels was a popular speaker at the JCCs of North America Professional Conference, and he will talk to JCC executive directors about his career in the hospitality industry and his philanthropic [...]

Club One Named as “Best in Class” Provider for JCCs

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Club One has officially partnered with JCC Association as a “Best in Class” provider of fitness and membership services.  A leader in fitness management for over twenty years, Club One has worked successfully with many JCCs for the past ten years.   Club One is a nationally recognized leader in the industry, developing award-winning fitness and wellness solutions that [...]

JCC Association Joins National Go4Life® Campaign

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JCC Association has joined the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Go4Life, a new national exercise and physical activity campaign for people age 50+. The goal of Go4Life is to provide resources to older adults that they can use to incorporate exercise and physical activity into their everyday lives. This federal campaign is based on [...]

Torahs for Our Troops to Be at the GA on Sunday, Nov 6

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The JWB Jewish Chaplains Council, a service of JCC Association, will be at the GA, the annual conference of federations, this year to give everyone a chance to perform a special mitzvah. People are invited to stop by Booth 603 and help complete the fifth specially sized Torah for Jewish military chaplains. JWB Jewish Chaplains Council’s project Torah for Our [...]

New Program with JTS Helps JCC Professionals Develop Leadership Skills

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The Jewish Experiential Leadership Institute is a new 15-month program specifically designed for JCC professionals who want to enhance and develop their leadership skills, particularly deepening their capacity to view management issues through a Jewish lens. Working with the William Davidson Graduate School of Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, JCC Association’s [...]

Gilad Shalit Returns Home After Five Years in Captivity

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“Shehecheeyanu v’kiyimanu v’higiyanu lazman hazeh. Blessed are You, G-d, who has granted us life, sustained us and enabled us to reach this occasion.” A terrorist group of Palestinians crossed the border 1,941 days ago, killed Hanan Barak and Pavel Slotzker, and kidnapped Gilad Schalit. Today, after 1,941 days in the dark, Gilad Schalit is home.   [...]

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