Boulder JCC Calendar

Music With Lisa Hardwick : I Got Rhythm

Boulder JCC — 01/19/2010

With Lisa Hardwick

2 - 3 years

WINTER SESSION
At this developmental level children can follow the flow of the class and are interested in mastering small fingerplays. We will continue to work on the beat as well as “start/stop,” “action on cue,” and other musical skills with age-appropriate instruments. Simple dance movements continue, and expressive dance, basic imagination dance, and circle dances are introduced.

7 Tuesdays April 13 - May 25

01/19/2010 - 04/13/2010

Talk and Tumble Playgroup

Boulder JCC — 03/10/2010

With Fran Eichenhauer, Parent Educator

When you have kids, there's always a lot to talk about. On the second Wednesday of the month, Fran will lead an informal discussion on a parenting topic in our tumbling room. Join in on the conversation while your kids play in the room. To attend, RSVP to Beth@boulderjcc.org. Drop-ins ok.

Second Wednesday of Each Month

April 14
Successful Techniques For Helping Your Child Overcome Temper Tantrums

May 12
Teaching Your Child The Problem-Solving Method When He/She Is Having Difficulties With Friends

This program is open to everyone!

Co-sponsored by the Boulder JCC Preschool

03/10/2010 - 05/12/2010

Signing Smart™ Baby Sign Language Parent-Child Play Class for Hearing Infants and Toddlers 6 months – 2 years

Boulder JCC — 02/25/2010

With With Lori Powell

Because Babies Love to Communicate

Signing Smart™ offers an opportunity for you and your entire family to interact and communicate with your child on a completely new level. The Signing Smart™ program uses American Sign Language for early communication and long-term learning with hearing infants or toddlers. Through play, activities, songs, and games, your child will be given the tools to communicate months earlier and with a broader, more extensive vocabulary than with spoken words alone. Signing Smart™ opens up a new world of communication, intimacy, and ideas in young children.

Class fee includes materials.

2/25 - 4/22 (no class 3/25)

02/25/2010 - 04/22/2010

PJ Library Bedtime Party for preschool - 1st grade

Boulder JCC — 05/12/2010

With With Jodi Basch, Director of Nevei Kodesh Religious School

We all have our own bedtime rituals, but did you know that there is a Jewish bedtime ritual called the Bedtime Sh’ma? The Bedtime Sh’ma reassures us that today is complete and that tomorrow will bring a fresh new start for everyone. Come and learn the Sh’ma and then decorate and take home a personalized Shema pillowcase.

Registration deadline: Friday, May 7

05/12/2010 - 05/12/2010

Shalom Neighbor Shabbat Picnic in Longmont

Boulder JCC — 05/07/2010

With Longmont Shabbat Group

Everyone is invited to join us for this great opportunity to celebrate Shabbat with your neighbors. No prior Shabbat experience is necessary. Bring your own picnic dinner. Challah and Grape Juice will be provided.

RSVP by Wednesday, May 5. For information on the Longmont Shabbat Group, go to www.longmontshabbatgroup.com or email shablong@comcast.net.

Interested in hosting a Shabbat Picnic in your neighborhood? Please contact Beth Litz at beth@boulderjcc.org to volunteer.

05/07/2010 - 05/07/2010

Artrageous Family Art Event

Boulder JCC — 04/18/2010

With Cammie Cloman and Leslie Perletz

For adults and children ages 3 to 99

Come with your child(ren) and/or grandchild to create a wonderful framed piece of art to treasure for many years to come. Together we will play some silly art games, learn a bit about one of Judaism’s most famous artist - Marc Chagall - and then take our own personal interests and put them into a dreamy Chagall-like painting. This intergenerational workshop will tickle your funny bone as well as feed your soul. No previous art experience necessary.

Registration deadline: Monday, April 12

This program is made possible by a grant by Rose Community Foundation.

04/18/2010 - 04/18/2010

Passover Cooking for Kids 3 1/2 to 6 years

Boulder JCC — 04/02/2010

With With Jo Ann Johnson

Come join us for a Passover celebration of cooking and eating what we make! Children will have fun making their own matzah pizza and a fruit smoothie too. Children will cultivate their culinary skills while learning how to mix, measure and follow recipes. Come find the chef in your child with our hands-on cooking class!

04/02/2010 - 04/02/2010

Siblings and Playmates - Helping Children Get Along: For parents of children birth to 5 years

Boulder JCC — 04/15/2010

With With Robin Goldstein-Lincoln, MA. LPC, psychotherapist and parent educator, Karen Alonge, parenting consultant

Parents often feel discouraged and frustrated when children don't get along. Robin and Karen will share tips for neutralizing conflict and aggression, as well as supporting good will and cooperation.

Parents will learn:

How child development and temperament affect interactions between young children.
How to set the stage for positive social experiences.
How to monitor play and decide when and how to intervene.
How to help children shift from blame to mutually agreeable solutions.

04/15/2010 - 04/15/2010

Me, Myself and Eye: My Favorite pictures: Boulder JCC Annual Community Photography Exhibit

Boulder JCC — 05/02/2010

With

Submit up to five of your favorite pictures of yourself: baby pictures, vintage pictures, vacation pictures, pictures with family and friends, portraits and self-portraits, Facebook profile pictures. Please feel free to add any notes, anecdotes or explanations of why you like these photos. Please bring framed prints to the Boulder JCC by March 29. Photo exhibit opening reception is Sunday, May 2, prior to the screening of “Shmelvis.”

05/02/2010 - 05/02/2010

9Health Fair

Boulder JCC — 04/21/2010

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One visit can change your life.

That’s what many experience when they attend a 9Health Fair.

The 9Health Fair served over 100,000 people last year and the JCC site served approximately 600. Many participants wouldn’t have had the opportunity to get these important tests done without the 9Health Fair!

Basic screenings at the 9Health Fair includes a 29-component Blood Chemistry for $30 and Blood Count Screenings for $15. Other free or low cost basic screenings include blood pressure, vision and “Talk with a Health Professional.” Optional screenings may include skin, hearing, oral and bone density screenings.

The Boulder JCC Health Fair wouldn’t be possible without the help of many volunteers!

We need both medical and non-medical volunteers.

For up-to-date screening information offered at the Boulder JCC, please go to
www.boulderjcc.org or to www.9healthfair.org.

Please note that screenings are limited and will close at noon.

Wednesday, April 21
7 am - Noon

To volunteer contact Shari@boulderjcc.org

NO ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT.

04/21/2010 - 04/21/2010

Music With Lisa Hardwick: Boogie Babies

Boulder JCC — 01/19/2010

With Lisa Hardwick

6 months – pre-walkers

Created for pre-walkers and their parents, this class uses singing, finger plays, nursery rhymes, lap songs, movement, age-appropriate instruments, parachute and bubbles to introduce babies to the world of music.

7 Tuesdays: April 13 - May 25

01/19/2010 - 04/13/2010

Music With Lisa Hardwick : Jamming Tots

Boulder JCC — 01/19/2010

With Lisa Hardwick

Walking – 26 months

At this developmental level children like to move around A LOT! This class accommodates their active bodies and their roving attention span by not requiring long periods of sitting. Madelyn offers the only class in Boulder specifically for new walkers on the move. Puppets, scarves, instruments and other fun props will keep children engaged while giving them physical experience with the beat.

7 Tuesdays: April 13 - May 25

01/19/2010 - 04/13/2010

Jr. Maccabi Games Celebration!

Boulder JCC — 05/16/2010

With Boulder JCC

The JCC Maccabi Games® are coming to Denver! Denver will welcome over 1,250 Jewish
athletes ages 13-16 to participate in this Olympic-style sports competition which provides a unique combination of sports, cultural and social activities. In celebration of the Maccabi games, the Boulder JCC will be hosting a field day to allow 8-11 year-olds experience a Maccabi game environment!

Pizza will be served.

Registration deadline: Monday, May 10

05/16/2010 - 05/16/2010

Archery: Session 1

Boulder JCC — 05/02/2010

With David Hansburg &amp; Tyler Fravel, Certified Archery Instructors, Rocky Mountain Day Camp

1st – 5th Grade

Back by popular demand... learn the “Art of Archery” at the Boulder JCC. This fun session will focus on the basic concepts of shooting a real bow and arrow. The first class focuses on safety and technique. The second and third classes focus on honing
archery skills with games and point scoring. All equipment provided for this class.

(No class on May 9)
Registration deadline: Wednesday, April 28

05/02/2010 - 05/02/2010

Archery: Session 2

Boulder JCC — 05/16/2010

With David Hansburg &amp; Tyler Fravel, Certified Archery Instructors, Rocky Mountain Day Camp

05/16/2010 - 05/16/2010

Archery: Session 3

Boulder JCC — 05/23/2010

With David Hansburg & Tyler Fravel, Certified Archery Instructors, Rocky Mountain Day Camp

05/23/2010 - 05/23/2010

JumpBunch Sports Camp at the Boulder JCC

Boulder JCC — 08/02/2010

With Boulder JCC

Ages 5 -10

Your child will learn about a variety of sports during JumpBunch Sports Sampler camp! We gear the instruction of each sport towards improving motor skills and hand/eye coordination through practice and fun games, with an emphasis on learning team and
sports skills, cooperation and sportsmanship. Children will also learn the rules of each game, and engage in friendly, non-competitive scrimmages in each sport. Camp activities will include football, baseball, hockey, lacrosse, soccer and many more!

Campers are asked to bring a water bottle and snack each day and to wear sunscreen. If there are enough campers, we’ll have two separate groups – ages 5-7 and 8-10.

08/02/2010 - 08/06/2010

Brunch and Learn: Body Safety for Kids

Boulder JCC — 04/09/2010

With Feather Berkower, LCSW

For expectant parents and parents of children of all ages

Please join us for an inspiring workshop on preventing child sexual abuse. Participants will learn how sex offenders select children and families, and actions to take to keep children “off-limits” from sexual abusers. Participants will leave with information and activities that can be used immediately.

Additional topics to be discussed include:
· Body Safety Rules for Children
· Age-appropriate sexual behavior
· Taking advantage of teachable moments
· No secret-rules

For more information, visit: www.parentingsafechildren.com.

Price includes brunch.

You must request childcare by emailing Beth@boulderjcc.org by Tuesday, March 30. Childcare fee can be paid at the door.

Registration deadline: Tuesday, March 30

Co-sponsored by the Boulder JCC Preschool
This program is made possible by a grant from Rose Community Foundation.

04/09/2010 - 04/09/2010

Magical Music Session 2A

Boulder JCC — 04/12/2010

With Kristin McLean

SPRING SESSION 2A
4:30 - 5:15

Join Kristin in making music from around the world, kid style! Sing songs in different languages, traditional kids’ tunes, and originals by Kristin. Play with egg shakers, rhythm sticks, bells, drums and more, as we learn new songs and sing a few old favorites. Have fun working on basic music competency: matching pitches and keeping the beat with our bodies and instruments. This class includes singing with puppets, doing finger plays, and dancing with scarves and a parachute!

6 Mondays: April 12 - May 17

04/12/2010 - 04/12/2010

Sweet Peas Cooking for kids 2 - 3 1/2 years old

Boulder JCC — 04/07/2010

With With Jo Ann Johnson

This class is designed for the youngest kitchen helper who is ready to explore on their own. Toddlers will be introduced to a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables using their five senses. We will be sorting, mixing, tasting, smelling, rolling and squishing ingredients. Children will have fun making and eating their own creations! Each class will have stories and songs. Healthy snacks provided. Please let us know about any food allergies before registering for this class. You may stay or drop off your child for this class.

5 Wednesdays, April 7 - May 12 (no class 4/21)

9:30 – 10:15 am

04/07/2010 - 04/07/2010

Seismic Shifts: The Promise of Socialism: Bundism and Secular Yiddishism

Boulder JCC — 03/18/2010

With Professor William Safran

Seismic Shifts: Modern Jewish Ideologies and Movements

Autonomists; Zhitlovsky; Dubnow. The Czernowitz conference; YIVO. Approaches to a permanent diaspora in Eastern Europe. “Cultural” Jewishness.

03/18/2010 - 03/18/2010

Seismic Shifts: Jewish Nationalism and Its Challenges: Zionism, Anti-Zionism, and Post-Zionism

Boulder JCC — 03/25/2010

With Professor William Safran

Hibbat Zion; Herzl, Pinsker, Nordau, Borochov; the non-political Zionism of Ahad Haam
and Buber; American Council for Judaism; Cananites; Kimmerling; Pappe, et al. From 19th
century Zionism to reactions to Nazism and the Holocaust. Developments since the establishment of Israel.

03/25/2010 - 03/25/2010

Seismic Shifts: Modern Jewish Ideologies and Movements Four-Week Package

Boulder JCC — 03/04/2010

With Professor William Safran

This four-week class will cover radical new developments in Jewish thought from the 17th through the 20th century.

March 4 Despair and Hope: Messianism and Hassidism

March 11 The Jews and Modernity: Haskalah and Reform Judaism

March 18 The Promise of Socialism: Bundism and Secular Yiddishism

March 25 Jewish Nationalism and Its Challenges: Zionism, Anti-Zionism, and Post-Zionism

03/04/2010 - 03/25/2010

The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East

Boulder JCC — 03/14/2010

With author Joshua Muravchik

The Next Founders brings to light the stories of seven remarkable people, six Arabs and an Iranian. Five are men; two, women. Four are Sunnis, two are Shiites, and the seventh is mixed. Their lives revolve around a sense of mission, and while the angles from which they attack it are varied, this mission is the same for all seven--to make their countries more free and democratic.

03/14/2010 - 03/14/2010

“Defiance” (2009)

Boulder JCC — 04/08/2010

With Directed by Edward Zwick

“Defiance” (2009) Directed by Edward Zwick, Starring Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber

In anticipation of Yom HaShoah, Menorah presents the true story of the Bielsky Brothers, and honors the partisans who took refuge in the forests where they fought the Nazis and provided shelter for Jews. Based on the book by Nechma Tec, “Defiance” pays tribute to Jewish resistance, so often neglected in Holocaust films. The stirring film asks if it is possible to keep faith alive in a time when the world seems devoid of humanity and survival becomes a way of life.

“The courage at the center of “Defiance” has to do not only with the truth of the movie’s story, but also with how director Ed Zwick tells this tale of World War II heroism in as straightforward, old-fashioned a way as possible.” - New York Daily News

Thursday, April 8
Noon
$8 for film and lunch

Also showing:
Thursday, April 8
7 pm
$8 for film and discussion

04/08/2010 - 04/08/2010

“Defiance” (2009)

Boulder JCC — 04/08/2010

With Directed by Edward Zwick

04/08/2010 - 04/08/2010

The Trashing of Margaret Mead

Boulder JCC — 05/13/2010

With With Professor Paul Shankman

In 1928 Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa, a fascinating study of the lives of adolescent girls that transformed the anthropologist into an academic celebrity. In 1983 anthropologist Derek Freeman published a scathing critique of Mead’s Samoan research, arguing that Mead had been “hoaxed” by Samoans whose innocent lies she took at face value. In The
Trashing of Margaret Mead, Paul Shankman explores the many dimensions of the Mead-Freeman controversy as it developed publicly and as it played out privately, including the personal relationships, professional rivalries, and larger-than-life personalities that drove it.

Paul Shankman, professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and co-founder
of the Program in Jewish Studies, has conducted fieldwork in Samoa periodically since 1966. He has written a number of articles on the Mead-Freeman controversy.

05/13/2010 - 05/13/2010

Levana: New Moon Sister Circle

Boulder JCC — 03/17/2010

With With Ketriella Goldfeder

“Whoever blesses the new moon in it’s time, invites the presence of G-d - Shekhinah to dwell within...” -Babylonain Talmud, Sanhedrin 42a.

Join in the ancient tradition of Jewish women celebrating the new moon. Each Hebrew month has its own unique qualities and energies that are available for us to use for our personal and spiritual growth. At the Levana New Moon Sister Circle we will
explore those qualities through Hebrew text study, experiential exercises and personal sharing. The Sister Circle is an amazing opportunity for women to deepen their connection to Jewish Spiritual traditions as well as to each other.

Ketriellah Golfeder has a lifelong interest in working with women in group. She is a skilled teacher and facilitator who has been developing women’s New Moon gatherings for over six years. Ketriellah brings her in-depth knowledge of the Jewish calendar and Jewish spiritual traditions as well as her rich life experience to the group. Using the principles of mindfulness, non-violence, unity, organicity and mind/body/spirit wholism, she creates a group learning experience that is accessible, experiential and very enjoyable.

3 Wednesday Evenings

March 17, April 14 and May 12

6:30 - 8 pm

At Aish Kodesh, 1805 Balsam Ave

$10 per session

Co-sponsored by Shalom Family

03/17/2010 - 05/12/2010

Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails) Author Talk with Matt Young

Boulder JCC — 04/15/2010

With Author Talk with Matt Young

Matt Young, co-author of Why Evolution Works (with Paul Strode), tackles the most vexing issues in the public’s understanding of biological evolution and earth history. Young and Strode’s new book explains the concept of biological fitness, arguing that evolution, hardly random, is a process of interaction between organisms and the environment. Matt Young is a Senior Lecturer in Physics at the Colorado School of Mines and a retired Physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he was awarded the Department of Commerce Gold Medal and various other honors. Previously, he was on the faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Waterloo, and was a Guest Scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He has 5 books in print, including a book on science and religion, and 2 books on evolution and creationism.

04/15/2010 - 04/15/2010

Milton Friedman and the American Economy Today: With CU Economics Professor Martin Boileau and CU Business School Professor Michael Stutzer

Boulder JCC — 04/27/2010

With With CU Economics Professor Martin Boileau and CU Business School Professor Michael Stutzer

The late Milton Friedman, who died in 2006, is widely regarded as the most influential economist of the 20th century. The impact of his ideas now and into the future is inestimable. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1976, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science in 1988, Friedman was also a statistician, public intellectual, political advisor and writer who became a household name. The panelists will cover the enormous influence of Friedman on the conduct of monetary policy, which is key to what is happening in the economy now, and on Friedman’s impact on broader policy issues, i.e., his general advocacy of creative market solutions for social problems.

Tuesday, April 27
7 pm
$8 at the door

04/27/2010 - 04/27/2010

Let's Get Movin' 12-18 months (pre/new walkers) Spring Class

Boulder JCC — 04/12/2010

With With Debbi Foster

Let’s Get Movin’!

What an exciting stage for you and your child! Come explore new movement adventures with your toddler in our new tumbling room. Help your little one understand in, under, on and upside-down by doing it! Bear walks, turtle hops, bunny jumps and so much more.

5 Mondays
April 12 - May 17
(no class 5/3)

04/12/2010 - 04/12/2010

Movin' On: 18-30 months With Debbi Foster

Boulder JCC — 04/12/2010

With With Debbi Foster

18-30 months
With Debbi Foster

Now that your child is an established walker, come explore his/her new developmental skills. Climbing, rolling, balancing, and jumping all in a fun and safe environment. We will continue to work on many important large motor skills and begin developing fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

SPRING
5 Mondays
April 12 - May 17
(no class 5/3)

04/12/2010 - 04/12/2010

Shmelvis: Searching for the King’s Jewish Roots

Boulder JCC — 05/02/2010

With

Directed by Max Wallace

Elvis Presley would be 75 today – but would be still be wearing that Chai around his neck he was wearing when he died? Inspired by a 1998 Wall Street Journal article suggesting that Elvis might be part Jewish, Dan Hartal -- an orthodox Jewish Elvis impersonator -- an eccentric rabbi and a film crew set out to Memphis and Israel to trace his roots. Their antics include lobbying to give the King a proper Jewish burial and planting a tree in his honor in the Holy Land. Their journey takes them to hilarious heights and pathetic lows in their stuffy Winnebago. Find out: Did Elvis put a Jewish star on his mother’s grave? Was he ever a “Shabbos goy?” Did his mother work in the shmatta business and did he grow up in a Jewish neighborhood? Was his maternal great grandmother Jewish?

Admission is $8 at the door. There is no online registration for this event.

05/02/2010 - 05/02/2010