Friday, March 22, 2013
Preschool children make matzoh from flour they grind themselves as Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge gets ready for Passover.
When Jewish families in the Somerset Hills sit down to their Passover dinners early next week, the children who've been part of Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge's annual matzoh-making session will have a better idea of how one of the essential foods of the Seder table came to be. Each year, Chabad's Youth Rabbi Yitzchok Moully invites children from the center's Zimmer Preschool for a fun-oriented lesson in how to make matzoh. The unleavened bread is part of the ceremony on Passover (Pesach), which this year begins at sundown on Monday, March 25. The children, some of whom are returning from a previous year and some whose older siblings enjoyed the tradition, start by grinding wheat into flour. Moully then enlists audience …
Monday, January 28, 2013
Updated: Event and art instillation inspired by Hurricane Sandy and the Jewish New Year for trees.
The Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge invited visitors on Sunday, Jan. 26, celebrate Tu B'Shvat, the New Year for Trees, which will include an art installation made from a tree felled by Hurricane Sandy, at Back to Nature Home & Garden center off Valley Road in Basking Ridge. Tu B'Shvat marks the beginning of the new growth of trees and vegetation following the winter hibernation in Israel, as well as a time for personal growth, said Rabbi Yitzchok Moully from Chabad. About 100 children from Chabad attended the event, and posted prayers on the tree installation, Moully said on Monday. He said the tree is due to remain at Back to Nature for a week, and then will be moved back to Chabad, located across the street on Valley Road. From …
Thursday, March 8, 2012
A wide choice of things to do in the upcoming days, no matter what your particular passions.
Along with events around town, those who want to celebrate the Wearing 'o the Green may want to head to this Saturday's St. Patrick's Day parade in Morristown, one of the biggest in the state. And, hey, it's closer than New York. For continuing previews and coverage of the Morristown parade, check the Morristown Patch. Meanwhile, there will be a Purim celebration on Thursday night right here at the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge. And a wine tasting Friday night at Dolce Basking Ridge, to benefit the local Bernards Township PBA. For a good time without calories, Friday and Saturday's "Retail Therapy" at Liberty Corner Presbyterian Church, a woman's clothing tag sale to benefit girls' education, is undoubtedly cheaper than medical …
