STATEN ISLAND, NY — The Joan & Alan Bernikow JCC of Staten Island served more than 2,500 Staten Islanders during its Thanksgiving season programming, which featured holiday feasts, cultural events and community gatherings across multiple locations.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of participants from the JCC\u2019s Older Adult Centers, Department for People with Disabilities, Cornerstone and COMPASS programs attended holiday feasts. The South Shore Rotary Club contributed 30 Thanksgiving baskets containing turkey and traditional side dishes. The JCC\u2019s Community Health Insurance Programs office distributed the baskets to families in need.<\/p>\n
The organization hosted Thanksgiving-themed challah bakes through its Jewish Culture Clubs at local high schools, allowing teenagers to blend holiday celebration with Jewish tradition. Hillel of Staten Island organized Friendsgiving gatherings for Jewish college students and young professionals at Wagner College and the College of Staten Island.<\/p>\n
The JCC\u2019s Early Childhood Education Center held Thanksgiving parades at all four of its schools, featuring minions, marching bands and turkey-themed activities for young learners and their families.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe take so much joy in providing opportunities for participants of all ages to celebrate Thanksgiving together,\u201d said Orit Lender, JCC CEO. \u201cThank you to all of our generous community partners who helped make these events possible. We are grateful for everyone who participated for being a part of our JCC of Staten Island kehillah\u2014our community! On behalf of the JCC, we wish you and your loved ones a happy and healthy holiday season.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information on JCC programs, visit www.sijcc.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, NY — The Joan & Alan Bernikow JCC of Staten Island served more than 2,500 Staten…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-57135","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\/57135","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=57135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}