{"id":100507,"date":"2026-01-14T21:31:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/100507\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T21:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:31:26","slug":"character-breakfast-staten-island-jcc-event-brings-families-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/100507\/","title":{"rendered":"Character breakfast Staten Island: JCC event brings families together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QKATQN445ZGHDGEFRQZ3ES5WBM\">Nearly 200 families gathered at the Joan &amp; Alan Bernikow JCC of Staten Island on Sunday, Jan. 11 for a Character Breakfast that brought children face-to-face with their favorite storybook and screen personalities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"35ZQ4HANWNEGJKG7OMOJF4FSNE\">The event featured meet-and-greets, dancing and sing-alongs with Elsa and Anna, Mickey Mouse, Bluey, Stitch, Elmo and the Cat in the Hat.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Family fun at the Character Breakfast\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/A3LVX4TS75CWJI45ZRF7UMRUOE.JPG\"  \/>A family pictured all smiles with Disney characters Elsa and Anna at the Character Breakfast hosted by  the Joan &amp; Alan Bernikow JCC of Staten on Sunday, Jan. 11.Courtesy of JCC<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"64F6DVTFRNAOLHKO67LA3UBD2A\">\u201cHere at the JCC, we love bringing families together to create special memories,\u201d said Orit Lender, CEO of the JCC. \u201cIt was wonderful to see so many smiling faces as our little ones met their favorite characters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JCC Staten Island character breakfast 2026\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6N6IJQN7X5B2LNSZWV2S6FWI2I.JPG\"  \/>A young girl posed with Cat in the Hat at the  character breakfast hosted by the Joan &amp; Alan Bernikow JCC of Staten Island on Sunday, Jan 11.Courtesy of JCC<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XYYRZFNZNFGJPKXWZDXP6Q3FNU\">The JCC is planning its next family event, a Purim Carnival, for March 1 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at 1466 Manor Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"R5TK73A4FREX3CXJUEU466TLTU\">The costume carnival will feature inflatables, games, hamantaschen baking, Purim crafts, face painting and balloon art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DYW74ZLYLFCYVJFDASAYOLCE4Y\">Tickets are $5 per child for JCC members and $10 per child for non-members. Adults attend free. Tickets can be purchased in advance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sijcc.org\/purim.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sijcc.org\/purim.html\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 200 families gathered at the Joan &amp; Alan Bernikow JCC of Staten Island on Sunday, Jan. 11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-100507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}