BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//JCCNS, Jewish Community Center of the North Shore - ECPv6.18.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20260617T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260617T190000 DTSTAMP:20241227T165037Z CREATED:20241018T175943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T165037Z UID:10000927-1781722800-1781722800@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-2/2026-06-17/ 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:20260618T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260618T144500 DTSTAMP:20260612T160349Z CREATED:20260225T175139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260612T160349Z UID:10002957-1781784000-1781793900@jccns.org SUMMARY:Open Play Canasta at the J! 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-at-the-j-2/2026-06-18/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Canasta-Open-Play-2025-Eblast-img.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lauren Weiss":MAILTO:lweiss@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260618T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260618T210000 DTSTAMP:20241227T164654Z CREATED:20241018T174651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T164654Z UID:10000657-1781811000-1781816400@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-11/2026-06-18/ 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:20260622T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T190000 DTSTAMP:20260617T131752Z CREATED:20260428T173505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260617T131752Z UID:10003276-1782127800-1782154800@jccns.org SUMMARY:JCCNS Annual Golf Outing 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-annual-golf-outing/ LOCATION:Tedesco Country Club\, 154 Tedesco Street\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945\, United States CATEGORIES:Home-Register ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Golf-Eblast-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260623T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260623T140000 DTSTAMP:20260521T163539Z CREATED:20260518T154845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260521T163539Z UID:10003292-1782219600-1782223200@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-2/ 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260623T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260623T203000 DTSTAMP:20260625T165538Z CREATED:20260528T150526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260625T165538Z UID:10003358-1782239400-1782246600@jccns.org SUMMARY:Learn Mah Jong at the J 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/learn-mah-jong-at-the-j-2/2026-06-23/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Learn-Mah-Jong-2026-eblast-img.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lauren Weiss":MAILTO:lweiss@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260624T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260624T170000 DTSTAMP:20260918T173854Z CREATED:20260608T183614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T173854Z UID:10003367-1782313200-1782320400@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/2026-06-24/ 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:20260624T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260624T183000 DTSTAMP:20260605T155842Z CREATED:20260605T155842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260605T155842Z UID:10003363-1782322200-1782325800@jccns.org SUMMARY:Spouses Healing Circle 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/spouses-healing-circle-3/ LOCATION:Periwinkles\, 540B Loring Ave\, Salem\, 01970\, United States CATEGORIES:Home-Register ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Spouses-Healing-Circle-Event-img.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lauren Weiss":MAILTO:lweiss@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T210000 DTSTAMP:20241227T164654Z CREATED:20241018T174651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T164654Z UID:10000658-1782415800-1782421200@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-11/2026-06-25/ 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:20260630T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260630T140000 DTSTAMP:20260521T164904Z CREATED:20260518T154622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260521T164904Z UID:10003293-1782824400-1782828000@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/2026-06-30/ 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260630T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260630T203000 DTSTAMP:20260625T165538Z CREATED:20260528T150526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260625T165538Z UID:10003306-1782844200-1782851400@jccns.org SUMMARY:Learn Mah Jong at the J 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/learn-mah-jong-at-the-j-2/2026-06-30/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Learn-Mah-Jong-2026-eblast-img.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lauren Weiss":MAILTO:lweiss@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T123000 DTSTAMP:20260409T153603Z CREATED:20251119T193841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260409T153603Z UID:10000524-1782903600-1782909000@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-6-10/2026-07-01/ 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:20260701T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T170000 DTSTAMP:20260918T173854Z CREATED:20260608T183614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T173854Z UID:10003368-1782918000-1782925200@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/2026-07-01/ 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:20260701T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260701T190000 DTSTAMP:20241227T164601Z CREATED:20241018T180055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T164601Z UID:10000868-1782932400-1782932400@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-3/2026-07-01/ 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:20260702T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260702T210000 DTSTAMP:20241227T164654Z CREATED:20241018T174651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T164654Z UID:10000659-1783020600-1783026000@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-11/2026-07-02/ 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:20260707T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260707T140000 DTSTAMP:20260521T164904Z CREATED:20260518T154622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260521T164904Z UID:10003294-1783429200-1783432800@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/2026-07-07/ 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260708T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260708T170000 DTSTAMP:20260918T173854Z CREATED:20260608T183614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T173854Z UID:10003369-1783522800-1783530000@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/2026-07-08/ 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:20260708T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260708T200000 DTSTAMP:20260625T141525Z CREATED:20260623T132852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260625T141525Z UID:10003649-1783537200-1783540800@jccns.org SUMMARY:Making Sense of the Middle East 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/making-sense-of-the-middle-east/ LOCATION:JCCNS\, 4 Community Rd.\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 CATEGORIES:Home-Register ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://jccns.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Community-Conversation-2026-07-Mid-East-Eblast2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lauren Weiss":MAILTO:lweiss@jccns.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260709T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260709T210000 DTSTAMP:20241227T164654Z CREATED:20241018T174651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T164654Z UID:10000660-1783625400-1783630800@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-11/2026-07-09/ 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:20260710T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260710T180000 DTSTAMP:20260615T173315Z CREATED:20260615T173315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260615T173315Z UID:10003628-1783702800-1783706400@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-11/ LOCATION:JCCNS Outdoor Pool\, 4 Community Road\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 CATEGORIES:Family Events,Home-Series 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:20260712T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260712T113000 DTSTAMP:20260615T173323Z CREATED:20260608T144319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260615T173323Z UID:10003365-1783852200-1783855800@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-25/ 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:20260713T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260713T140000 DTSTAMP:20260701T170933Z CREATED:20260528T160242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260701T170933Z UID:10003359-1783947600-1783951200@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-28/ 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:20260714T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260714T140000 DTSTAMP:20260521T164904Z CREATED:20260518T154622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260521T164904Z UID:10003295-1784034000-1784037600@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/2026-07-14/ 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260715T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260715T170000 DTSTAMP:20260918T173854Z CREATED:20260608T183614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T173854Z UID:10003370-1784127600-1784134800@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/2026-07-15/ 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:20260715T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260715T190000 DTSTAMP:20241227T165037Z CREATED:20241018T175943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T165037Z UID:10000928-1784142000-1784142000@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-2/2026-07-15/ 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:20260716T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260716T210000 DTSTAMP:20241227T164654Z CREATED:20241018T174651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T164654Z UID:10000661-1784230200-1784235600@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-11/2026-07-16/ 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:20260717T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T180000 DTSTAMP:20260615T173342Z CREATED:20260615T173342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260615T173342Z UID:10003629-1784307600-1784311200@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-12/ LOCATION:JCCNS Outdoor Pool\, 4 Community Road\, Marblehead\, MA\, 01945 CATEGORIES:Family Events,Home-Series 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:20260721T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260721T140000 DTSTAMP:20260521T164904Z CREATED:20260518T154622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260521T164904Z UID:10003296-1784638800-1784642400@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/2026-07-21/ 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260722T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260722T170000 DTSTAMP:20260918T173854Z CREATED:20260608T183614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T173854Z UID:10003371-1784732400-1784739600@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/2026-07-22/ 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:20260723T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260723T210000 DTSTAMP:20241227T164654Z CREATED:20241018T174651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241227T164654Z UID:10000662-1784835000-1784840400@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-11/2026-07-23/ 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 END:VCALENDAR