BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//JCCNS, Jewish Community Center of the North Shore - ECPv6.17.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:JCCNS, Jewish Community Center of the North Shore X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://jccns.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for JCCNS, Jewish Community Center of the North Shore REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T203000 DTSTAMP:20260908T162624Z CREATED:20260821T165429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260908T162624Z UID:10003681-1788980400-1788985800@jccns.org SUMMARY:Understanding Antisemitism Today: Navigating Conversations about Israel DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/understanding-antisemitism-today-navigating-conversations-about-israel/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 CATEGORIES:Home-Register ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Community-Conversation-2026-09-Antisemitism-Eblast.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lauren Weiss":MAILTO:lweiss@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T170000 DTSTAMP:20260608T183614Z CREATED:20260608T183614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260608T183614Z UID:10003378-1788966000-1788973200@jccns.org SUMMARY:Open Play Canasta & Mah Jongg DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/open-play-canasta-mah-jongg/2026-09-09/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Canasta-and-Mah-Jongg-Open-Play-2026-Eblast.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lauren Weiss":MAILTO:lweiss@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260907T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260907T180000 DTSTAMP:20260723T185324Z CREATED:20260716T144539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260723T185324Z UID:10003659-1788796800-1788804000@jccns.org SUMMARY:Doggie Dip at the Outdoor Pool DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/doggie-dip-at-the-outdoor-pool-4/ LOCATION:JCCNS Outdoor Pool\, 4 Community Road\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 CATEGORIES:Home-Register ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Doggie-Dip-2025-eblast-img.png ORGANIZER;CN="Rachel Kidd-Levy":MAILTO:rkiddlevy@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T210000 DTSTAMP:20241227T164654Z CREATED:20241018T174651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T164654Z UID:10000668-1788463800-1788469200@jccns.org SUMMARY:Israeli Folk Dancing DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/israeli-folk-dancing-11/2026-09-03/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Israeli-Folk-Dancing-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T203000 DTSTAMP:20260813T161317Z CREATED:20260813T161317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260813T161317Z UID:10003666-1788375600-1788381000@jccns.org SUMMARY:Israel’s Elections: What They Mean for Israel’s Future DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/israels-elections-what-they-mean-for-israels-future/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 CATEGORIES:Home-Register ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Israeli-Elections-Sept-2026-Eblast-img.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lauren Weiss":MAILTO:lweiss@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T190000 DTSTAMP:20241227T164601Z CREATED:20241018T180055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T164601Z UID:10000870-1788375600-1788375600@jccns.org SUMMARY:Knitting Knights DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/knitting-knights-3/2026-09-02/ LOCATION:JCCNS Women’s Health Center\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Knitting-Knights-square.png ORGANIZER;CN="Mary Pat Hawkins":MAILTO:mphawkins@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T170000 DTSTAMP:20260608T183614Z CREATED:20260608T183614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260608T183614Z UID:10003377-1788361200-1788368400@jccns.org SUMMARY:Open Play Canasta & Mah Jongg DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/open-play-canasta-mah-jongg/2026-09-02/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Canasta-and-Mah-Jongg-Open-Play-2026-Eblast.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lauren Weiss":MAILTO:lweiss@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T123000 DTSTAMP:20260409T153603Z CREATED:20251119T193841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260409T153603Z UID:10000526-1788346800-1788352200@jccns.org SUMMARY:Senior Jazz and Lunch Hour DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/senior-jazz-and-lunch-hour-6-10/2026-09-02/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Senior-Jazz-Hour-and-Lunch-square.png ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Ewing":MAILTO:sewing@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260820T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260820T210000 DTSTAMP:20241227T164654Z CREATED:20241018T174651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T164654Z UID:10000666-1787254200-1787259600@jccns.org SUMMARY:Israeli Folk Dancing DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/israeli-folk-dancing-11/2026-08-20/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Israeli-Folk-Dancing-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260819T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260819T190000 DTSTAMP:20241227T165037Z CREATED:20241018T175943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T165037Z UID:10000929-1787166000-1787166000@jccns.org SUMMARY:Knitting Knights DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/knitting-knights-2/2026-08-19/ LOCATION:JCCNS Women’s Health Center\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Knitting-Knights-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260819T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260819T170000 DTSTAMP:20260608T183614Z CREATED:20260608T183614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260608T183614Z UID:10003375-1787151600-1787158800@jccns.org SUMMARY:Open Play Canasta & Mah Jongg DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/open-play-canasta-mah-jongg/2026-08-19/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Canasta-and-Mah-Jongg-Open-Play-2026-Eblast.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lauren Weiss":MAILTO:lweiss@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260814T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260814T180000 DTSTAMP:20260729T142050Z CREATED:20260615T173422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T142050Z UID:10003634-1786726800-1786730400@jccns.org SUMMARY:Shabbat by the Outdoor Pool DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/shabbat-by-the-outdoor-pool-16/ LOCATION:JCCNS Outdoor Pool\, 4 Community Road\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 CATEGORIES:Family Events,Home-Register ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shabbat-by-the-Outdoor-Pool-Eblast.png ORGANIZER;CN="Family Connector":MAILTO:FamilyConnector@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260813T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260813T210000 DTSTAMP:20241227T164654Z CREATED:20241018T174651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T164654Z UID:10000665-1786649400-1786654800@jccns.org SUMMARY:Israeli Folk Dancing DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/israeli-folk-dancing-11/2026-08-13/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Israeli-Folk-Dancing-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260812T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260812T170000 DTSTAMP:20260608T183614Z CREATED:20260608T183614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260608T183614Z UID:10003374-1786546800-1786554000@jccns.org SUMMARY:Open Play Canasta & Mah Jongg DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/open-play-canasta-mah-jongg/2026-08-12/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Canasta-and-Mah-Jongg-Open-Play-2026-Eblast.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lauren Weiss":MAILTO:lweiss@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260810T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260810T140000 DTSTAMP:20260617T181457Z CREATED:20260617T181457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260617T181457Z UID:10003637-1786366800-1786370400@jccns.org SUMMARY:JCCNS Women's Book Club DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/jccns-womens-book-club-29/ LOCATION:Zoom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Womens-Book-Club-on-Zoom-square.png ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Ewing":MAILTO:sewing@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260809T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260809T113000 DTSTAMP:20260608T144346Z CREATED:20260608T144346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260608T144346Z UID:10003366-1786271400-1786275000@jccns.org SUMMARY:Schmooze and News DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/schmooze-and-news-31/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 CATEGORIES:Home-Register ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Schmooze-and-News-square.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lauren Weiss":MAILTO:lweiss@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T113000 DTSTAMP:20260618T175600Z CREATED:20260618T175600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260618T175600Z UID:10003644-1786183200-1786188600@jccns.org SUMMARY:Sea Serpents Fall Tryouts for grades K-3 DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/sea-serpents-fall-tryouts-for-grades-k-3-2/2026-08-08/ LOCATION:JCCNS Outdoor Pool\, 4 Community Road\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 CATEGORIES:Aquatics Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Sea-Serpents-Fall-2025-Eblast.png ORGANIZER;CN="Ashley Vieira":MAILTO:avieira@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T180000 DTSTAMP:20260729T142022Z CREATED:20260615T173412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T142022Z UID:10003633-1786122000-1786125600@jccns.org SUMMARY:Shabbat by the Outdoor Pool DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/shabbat-by-the-outdoor-pool-15/ LOCATION:JCCNS Outdoor Pool\, 4 Community Road\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 CATEGORIES:Family Events,Home-Register ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shabbat-by-the-Outdoor-Pool-Eblast.png ORGANIZER;CN="Family Connector":MAILTO:FamilyConnector@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260806T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260806T210000 DTSTAMP:20241227T164654Z CREATED:20241018T174651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T164654Z UID:10000664-1786044600-1786050000@jccns.org SUMMARY:Israeli Folk Dancing DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/israeli-folk-dancing-11/2026-08-06/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Israeli-Folk-Dancing-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260805T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260805T190000 DTSTAMP:20241227T164601Z CREATED:20241018T180055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T164601Z UID:10000869-1785956400-1785956400@jccns.org SUMMARY:Knitting Knights DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/knitting-knights-3/2026-08-05/ LOCATION:JCCNS Women’s Health Center\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Knitting-Knights-square.png ORGANIZER;CN="Mary Pat Hawkins":MAILTO:mphawkins@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260805T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260805T170000 DTSTAMP:20260608T183614Z CREATED:20260608T183614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260608T183614Z UID:10003373-1785942000-1785949200@jccns.org SUMMARY:Open Play Canasta & Mah Jongg DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/open-play-canasta-mah-jongg/2026-08-05/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Canasta-and-Mah-Jongg-Open-Play-2026-Eblast.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lauren Weiss":MAILTO:lweiss@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260805T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260805T123000 DTSTAMP:20260409T153603Z CREATED:20251119T193841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260409T153603Z UID:10000525-1785927600-1785933000@jccns.org SUMMARY:Senior Jazz and Lunch Hour DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/senior-jazz-and-lunch-hour-6-10/2026-08-05/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Senior-Jazz-Hour-and-Lunch-square.png ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Ewing":MAILTO:sewing@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260804T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260804T183000 DTSTAMP:20260618T175617Z CREATED:20260618T175617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260618T175617Z UID:10003645-1785862800-1785868200@jccns.org SUMMARY:Sea Serpents Fall Tryouts for grades 4-7 DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/sea-serpents-fall-tryouts-for-grades-4-7-2/ LOCATION:JCCNS Outdoor Pool\, 4 Community Road\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 CATEGORIES:Aquatics Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Sea-Serpents-Fall-2025-Eblast.png ORGANIZER;CN="Ashley Vieira":MAILTO:avieira@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260804T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260804T173000 DTSTAMP:20260618T175600Z CREATED:20260618T175600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260618T175600Z UID:10003643-1785859200-1785864600@jccns.org SUMMARY:Sea Serpents Fall Tryouts for grades K-3 DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/sea-serpents-fall-tryouts-for-grades-k-3-2/2026-08-04/ LOCATION:JCCNS Outdoor Pool\, 4 Community Road\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 CATEGORIES:Aquatics Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Sea-Serpents-Fall-2025-Eblast.png ORGANIZER;CN="Ashley Vieira":MAILTO:avieira@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260802T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260802T190000 DTSTAMP:20260710T135825Z CREATED:20260522T134640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260710T135825Z UID:10003300-1785661200-1785697200@jccns.org SUMMARY:Summer Day Trip to Tanglewood Music Center DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/summer-day-trip-to-tanglewood-music-center-5/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 CATEGORIES:Home-Register ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Tanglewood-Trip-2025-Eblast-img-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lauren Weiss":MAILTO:lweiss@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260731T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260731T180000 DTSTAMP:20260729T181652Z CREATED:20260615T173400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T181652Z UID:10003632-1785517200-1785520800@jccns.org SUMMARY:Shabbat by the Outdoor Pool DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/shabbat-by-the-outdoor-pool-14/ LOCATION:JCCNS Outdoor Pool\, 4 Community Road\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 CATEGORIES:Family Events,Home-Register ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shabbat-by-the-Outdoor-Pool-Eblast.png ORGANIZER;CN="Family Connector":MAILTO:FamilyConnector@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260730T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260730T210000 DTSTAMP:20241227T164654Z CREATED:20241018T174651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T164654Z UID:10000663-1785439800-1785445200@jccns.org SUMMARY:Israeli Folk Dancing DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/israeli-folk-dancing-11/2026-07-30/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Israeli-Folk-Dancing-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260729T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260729T170000 DTSTAMP:20260608T183614Z CREATED:20260608T183614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260608T183614Z UID:10003372-1785337200-1785344400@jccns.org SUMMARY:Open Play Canasta & Mah Jongg DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/open-play-canasta-mah-jongg/2026-07-29/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Canasta-and-Mah-Jongg-Open-Play-2026-Eblast.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lauren Weiss":MAILTO:lweiss@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260728T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260728T200000 DTSTAMP:20260618T175600Z CREATED:20260618T175600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260618T175600Z UID:10003642-1785263400-1785268800@jccns.org SUMMARY:Sea Serpents Fall Tryouts for grades K-3 DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/sea-serpents-fall-tryouts-for-grades-k-3-2/2026-07-28/ LOCATION:JCCNS Outdoor Pool\, 4 Community Road\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 CATEGORIES:Aquatics Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Sea-Serpents-Fall-2025-Eblast.png ORGANIZER;CN="Ashley Vieira":MAILTO:avieira@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260728T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260728T140000 DTSTAMP:20260521T164904Z CREATED:20260518T154622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260521T164904Z UID:10003297-1785243600-1785247200@jccns.org SUMMARY:The JCCNS North Shore Singers DESCRIPTION:on Zoom. Join Jew­ish Book Coun­cil for a Com­mu­ni­ty One Read with Bruce Feil­er in Con­ver­sa­tion with Rab­bi Angela Buch­dahl. Feil­er will be dis­cussing his newest book A Time to Gath­er. Since time immemo­r­i­al\, humans have turned to rit­u­al to con­nect us in peri­ods of change. Until today. Birth rit­u­als and com­ing-of-age rit­u­als have plum­met­ed; few­er than half of Amer­i­cans are mar­ried; only one in three is buried. ​“It took us ten thou­sand years to estab­lish cul­tur­al norms around how we mark col­lec­tive life tran­si­tions\,” writes Bruce Feil­er. ​“It took us fifty years to dis­man­tle them.” Can this threat to soci­ety be reversed? To find out\, Feil­er went on a round-the-world rit­u­al road trip\, attend­ing — and par­tic­i­pat­ing in — life rit­u­als in six­teen coun­tries on six con­ti­nents. These spec­ta­cles\, some rarely seen\, include a mass bap­tism in the Vat­i­can\, a trib­al bride price nego­ti­a­tion in South Africa\, an ado­les­cent tooth fil­ing in Bali\, six wed­dings in Las Vegas\, and ten funer­als in Ire­land. Angela Buch­dahl is the author of Heart of a Stranger: An Unlike­ly Rab­bi’s Sto­ry of Faith\, Iden­ti­ty\, and Belong­ing and serves as the Senior Rab­bi of Cen­tral Syn­a­gogue in New York City. She was the first woman to lead this flag­ship con­gre­ga­tion and is the first Asian-Amer­i­­can to be ordained as a rab­bi in North Amer­i­ca. Rab­bi Buch­dahl was invit­ed in 2014 and 2023 to share bless­ings for the White House Hanukkah Par­ty and has been fea­tured in dozens of news out­lets — includ­ing Newsweek​’s Most Influ­en­tial Rab­bis.Event is free.  Please register for Zoom link below. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://jccns.org/event/the-jccns-north-shore-singers/2026-07-28/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 CATEGORIES:Home-Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/North-Shore-Singers-Eblast-img.png ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Ewing":MAILTO:sewing@jccns.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR