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Shabbat Across America Dinner & Service – March 7, 6:30 pm

Dinner served at 6:30 pm (please arrive by 6:15)
Instrumental Music Shabbat Service at 8:00 pm

We invite you to join us to celebrate something that unites all Jews — Shabbat!

Turn an ordinary Friday night into something extraordinary! Everyone is invited – singles, couples, families – all ages. Guests are very welcome!

We will be serving a kosher meal of chicken with traditional side dishes.

Following dinner, Cantor Roffman and Matthew Lecin will lead our Shabbat Service, and we will enjoy dessert and more socializing at the Oneg Shabbat afterwards.

Please RSVP by February 27th to SAA@ckibbnj.org, so we will have plenty of food for all.

Shabbat Across America is an educational event of  the National Jewish Outreach Program.  It provides Jews of all affiliations (and those not affiliated with any synagogue) the opportunity to experience Shabbat as a community

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Book Discussion Group & Lunch – Sun. March 2, 12:30 pm

We are reading “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine” by Gail Honeyman

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, and soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon.

No one’s ever told Eleanor Oliphant that life should be better than fine.  She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. 

But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.

Please join us for discussion and lunch! Free for Sisterhood members, guests $5.

To RSVP, or if you have any questions, please contact Nancy Berkenfeld at AdultEd@ckibbnj.org

Available on Audible, Kindle, Somerset County Library System, Libraries of Middlesex Consortium, and as an EBook on eLibraryNJ.