Join with MCJC “Let’s Have Fun Together” for our traditional salute to our friends of the Far East.
CHINESE FOOD DINNER
Bring your friends and Mishpacha
This event is open to all:
Monday, December 24 at 5:00 pm
New China Restaurant
72 N. Kennedy Drive, Carpentersville
(Route 25 between Routes 62 & 68)
847-428-2228
For reservation and questions, contact Lois at loisshar@gmail.com or 847-854-0584
LORDY, LORDY, MCJC’S TURNING 40! Celebrate 40 years of serving as the Jewish heart of McHenry County. We’ll enjoy…
Havdalah: We’ll bid farewell to Shabbat with prayer and song, and reflect on our history and community-minded spirit.
Dinner: We’ll provide a dairy entrée if you all bring a side dish and/or dessert to share.
Swap Auction: This fun and easy fundraiser involves you donating a treasure or two that you no longer need. We’ll have live bidding on some items, and a ‘name your price’ section for others. We’ll also have raffle baskets and other low-cost ways to support MCJC. Prepare to take some treasures home with you!
Don’t miss it! Saturday, November 16, 6 pm. The event is free to all. MCJC members, past and present, please join us and catch up with old friends and celebrate your ‘Little Shul on the Prairie’!
Questions? Contact Ellen Morton at mcjcanniversary@mcjconline.org or call 815.353.0819. You can also reservation a space for yourself and your guests through our Events Calendar.
Come to the Sunday Shalom Cabaret
Sunday, September 15, 12:00 p.m.
Fountainview Center, Sun City, Huntley
Serving Pizza and Dessert, Soda and Water included
$12/person for members, $15 for non-members (guests welcome)
ENTERTAINMENT BY JEFF & JANIS
Join Jeff and Janis on this magical, marvelous Journey through Tin Pan Alley: Stage, Screen, and Folk era music highlighting the remarkable stories and songs of Jewish composers and lyricists who established the Great American Songbook. For more information, see their website: http://jeffandjanis.com/the-band-2/
Make Checks payable to The Shalom Group
Send to Ed Gordon, 12944 Illinois, Huntley, IL 60142
by Sept. 8, 2019
We had to cancel our MCJC picnic event to see the Wonder Lake Water Ski Show Team two weeks ago due to a schedule change for the Show Team.
We would like to update you, though, on the achievement of the Ski Team that weekend. They captured 3rd place in the 2019 National Show Ski Championship competition that was held August 9 through August 11 in Warsaw, Indiana! A team from Madison, Wisconsin won the national team title this year.
The MCJC “Let’s Have Fun Together” Committee will plan another picnic dinner outing on Wonder Lake Center Beach next summer to coincide with a performance of the Wonder Lake Water Ski Show Team. The tentative date is Friday, July 24, 2020.
Don’t miss our next “Let’s Have Fun Together” event on Friday, August 16, at Wonder Lake Center Beach. We will meet for a picnic at 6:00 pm followed by the highly entertaining Wonder Lake Water Ski Show Team performing (admission free) at 7:00 pm.
The Wonder Lake Water Ski Show Team won the National Show Ski Championship four times, and has been a top five national water ski show team competitor every year since 1996. During the one hour, fast moving, highly entertaining themed show, the Wonder Lake Water Ski Show Team members perform a variety of gravity-defying stunts. Click here for some amazing pictures of the team in action.
Bring your own picnic dinner and lawn chairs, and plan to arrive at Wonder Lake Center Beach to meet the rest of our group at 6:00 pm. Bruce Weiss will lead us in Kiddush, the Shabbat prayer over wine, and HaMotzi, the prayer over the bread, before we eat our picnic dinners followed by the Wonder Lake Water Ski Show performing at 7:00 pm.
Wonder Lake Center Beach is located at 4110 E. Lake Shore Drive in Wonder Lake. We will gather under the big tree near the water, on the far right side of the beach, as you face the water.
If it is a sunny evening, wear a hat or sun visor, as the audience watches the ski show facing the western sky.
This event is weather-dependent and will be cancelled if it rains. Notification of cancellation will be posted in the e-nouncements at the top, right corner of mcjconline.org.
Please RSVP to funtogether@mcjconline.org, if you plan to attend this “Let’s Have Fun Together” event, so the committee knows how many people to expect.
The next MCJC “Let’s Have Fun together” program is the Woodstock Folk Festival, Sunday, July 21, Noon-6:00 pm in the park on the historic Woodstock City Square.
MCJC members and friends should bring a picnic lunch and lawn chairs and meet at 11:30 am on the Woodstock Square in the park and get ready to enjoy an afternoon of soulful music and wonderful fellowship.
This is the 34th consecutive year for this outstanding musical festival. An eclectic mix of performers from the U.S., Canada, and the UK will perform blues, country, Americana, a cappella, international, traditional, and contemporary folk songs. The afternoon’s music program will also celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the First Lunar Landing and Moonwalk which took place July 20-21, 1969!
The Festival features a Main Stage, Open Mic Stage, Children’s Area, and a Blues Workshop. With a diverse musical line-up and an array of activities for people of all ages, the Festival will offer something for everyone.
The suggested donation for the event is $15 for seniors and students and $20 for adults. Please RSVP at funtogether@mcjconline.org so that MCJC “Let’s Have Fun Together” Committee Co-Chairs, Burl Cohn and Bruce Weiss, will know how large a space to reserve in the park.
MAY 2018 – MAY 2019
“LET’S HAVE FUN TOGETHER” EVENTS
The goal of the MCJC “Let’s Have Fun Together” initiative is to enhance the social program offerings at MCJC in an effort to help build community. These are events we shared during the past year:
1) Saturday June 9, 2018: attended the Green Room Productions family-friendly improv show at the Cosman Theater in Huntley. Prior to the program, we had dinner at the Kosta’s Restaurant in Algonquin.
2) Saturday July 15, 2018: attended the Woodstock Folk Festival and had a picnic lunch in the park on the Woodstock City Square.
3) Monday December 24, 2018: annual Christmas Eve Chinese Dinner at the New China Restaurant in Carpentersville.
4) Sunday March 10, 2019: Charles Troy’s presentation of “The Creation of West Side Story” at MCJC, followed by a dessert social.
IDEAS FOR MAY 2019 – MAY 2020
“LET’S HAVE FUN TOGETHER” PROGRAMS
1) Attend the Woodstock Folk Festival on Sunday July 21 on the Woodstock City Square park, and have a picnic lunch.
2) Attend a performance of the Wonder Lake Water Ski Show Team on Friday night, August 2, at Wonder Lake Beach, and have a picnic dinner.
3) Invite Charles Troy to present the following shows at MCJC: “Irving Berlin: The Ultimate Jewish Immigrant,” “The Creation of The Sound of Music,” and “The Creation of The Wizard of Oz” and have either a dessert social or a pizza dinner.
4) Invite someone to come to MCJC late afternoon on a Saturday to teach Israeli folk dancing, and have a Havdalah service and pizza dinner.
5) Hold the annual Christmas Eve Chinese Dinner at the New China Restaurant in Carpentersville.
6) Hold a Jewish Bingo Night at MCJC on a Saturday and include a Havdalah service and pizza dinner (note: each bingo game would have prizes for an adult winner and a child winner.)
7) Carpool day trip on a Sunday to visit the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie and have lunch at a Jewish deli.
IMPORTANT: please contact Burl Cohn and Bruce Weiss at funtogether@mcjconline.org and let them know which of the above listed program ideas interest you.
When? Sunday, October 21, 2018 – 1:00 pm
Where? The “Shul”
Why? Because it is time.
Join your Diamonds group for an afternoon of
Fun, Food, Film & Friendship . . .
Featuring our unlimited Salad, Pizza, & Dessert.
As always this event is open to all MCJC members, friends,
and anyone who cares to join us.
Suggested donation $7.50 pp.
Please help our chefs with your early response:
RSVP to Lois: loisshar@gmail.com
QUESTIONS?
Call Lois . . . 847-854-0584 or Burl 847-777-8119
SPECIAL MCJC SHABBAT PROGRAM
PICNIC – SHABBAT CELEBRATION – WATER SKI SHOW
Plan to join your MCJC family for a special Shabbat program featuring a picnic, a celebration of Shabbat, and a water ski show.
The entire MCJC community and their friends are invited to gather at 5:00 pm on Friday, August 17, at the Main Beach in Wonder Lake located at Hancock Drive and East Lake Shore Drive. Come early so it’s easier to find parking.
Bring your chairs and a picnic dinner to enjoy.
The crowd attending the Water Ski Show begins to build in earnest on the hillside overlooking Wonder Lake Beach between 6:30 and 7:00 pm. During that time the Wonder Lake Water Ski Show Team begins to get ready for its show and plays show music.
The Wonder Lake Water Ski Show Team performs between 7:00 and 8:00 pm. The audience faces the western sky during the show. If it is sunny, having a sun visor or hat will make it a bit easier to see the show.
This is a free admission event, but the Wonder Lake Water Ski Show Team members walk through the audience during a 5-minute intermission in the show to collect donations.
This MCJC event is weather dependent. If we have rain or thunderstorms that evening, we will cancel the event. You may check for cancelation in the Express Announcements on the MCJC website in the upper right corner.
If you have questions regarding this special MCJC Friday Shabbat event, please email diamonds@mcjconline.org or call Bruce Weiss (815-338-2721) or Burl Cohn (847-777-8119).
Audiences have come to the annual Woodstock Folk Festival from near and far since 1986.
Local, national, and international folk music artists will perform a variety of styles of folk music at the festival, which features a Main Stage, an Open Mic Stage, a Children’s Area, a Workshop, and an All-Sing Finale.
This is a free admission event, though organizers of the event welcome donations. For more detailed information about the event, see the flyer below.
Bring folding chairs and a picnic lunch. If you like folk music, you will love this event!
Please RSVP so we know how large a space in the park we need to reserve for the MCJC group.
RSVP & Questions: Bruce Weiss 815-338-2721 or woodstockbruce@hotmail.com
The purpose of the MCJC “Let’s Have Fun Together” initiative is to enhance the social program offerings at MCJC.
