MCJC Passover Seder

Led by Rabbi Gordon
 Tuesday, April 23,
6 pm - 8:15 pm
Cost: $10/person; $25/family.
RSVPs requested to Linda Trachsler.
 

This year we are having a DIY seder dinner, if you can help with food contribution and preparation, contact Linda Trachsler: 815-455-1810 or office@mcjconline.org.

Passover Hebrew and Liturgy Lab

Brush up on Haggadah blessings and songs.

MCJC DOCENT-LED TOUR OF THE ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM

The MCJC "let's have fun together" committee is organizing a private 1.5-hour-docent-led walking tour of the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie on Sunday April 14, 2024. 

 
The cost per person is as follows:   $15 for adults (aged 23 to 64),  $12 for seniors ( aged 65+),   $10 for youth (aged 12-22).

Participants can bring a brown bag lunch.   Deli lunches catered by "Once Upon A Deli" are also available for $12 per person.   Four choices of deli lunches are available:  #1: deli mini sandwiches (all three included: turkey, corned beef, egg salad), #2: vegetarian mini sandwiches (all three included: egg salad, cheese, veggie cream cheese),   # 3: gluten free deli salad (a scoop each of: egg salad, tuna salad, and chicken salad) and #4: a Vegan Garden Salad (green lettuce, tomato, cucumber, carrots with Balsamic dressing on the side).   All deli lunches include pickle, fresh fruit cup, cole slaw, bottled water, and a chocolate chip cookie.

A ride share program will be established in conjunction with this program.

Once you sign up for this program, many more details pertaining to the ride share program and the museum visit experience will be provided to you including museum rules and regulations.  

If you are interested in attending this MCJC "let's have fun together" program, please contact Bruce Weiss by email at office@mcjconline.org or by phone at 815-455-1810 as soon as possible and no later than March 14th.

The ins and outs of Passover, including your questions. No need to RSVP.

Hebrew and Liturgy Lab

Come brush up on your Hebrew or get help learning a particular prayer or blessing. For beginner and those-in-the-know alike. No need to RSVP.

Purim Megillah Reading, “Purim Wars” and celebration.

MCJC Purim Celebration & Town Hall

Sunday, March 24
10:00 am Purim Schpiel & Megillah Reading 
11:00 am Town Hall

Anti-Semitism, Past and Present

Where did Anti-Semitism come from? Howe did it affect Jewish communities through history? What does it look like today? No need to RSVP.

SATURDAY MARCH 16TH AT MCJC 5:30 PM-8:00 PM

                A NIGHT OF FOOD, FUN, FELLOWSHIP, AND PRIZES

             PIZZA DINNER    JEWISH BINGO   HAVDALAH SERVICE

                     BINGO WINNERS WIN $25 GIFT CERTIFICATES

             RSVP BY MARCH 9TH: office@mcjconline.org or 815-455-1810

                          (need to know how much pizza to order)

                  $2.00 PER PERSON COVER CHARGE FOR THE PIZZA

                     BINGO CALLER EXTRAORDINAIRE:  PAULA ESKOZ

Hebrew and Liturgy Lab

Come brush up on your Hebrew or get help learning a particular prayer or blessing. For beginners or those-in-the-know alike. No need to RSVP.

Jewish Ritual surrounding death and grieving will be discussed. How Jewish Tradition helps us in times of loss. No need to RSVP.

 1:30 PM SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024 AT MCJC

"COME TO THE JEWISH CABARET" FEATURING JEFF WINTER & JANIS FINE

Using acoustic instruments and beautiful vocal harmonies, Jeff Winter and Janis Fine have been performing Jewish music programs to audiences throughout Chicagoland for over 21 years.   Rich Kogan, WGN radio personality and Chicago Tribune reporter, called Jeff & Janis one of the most delightful and entertaining musical teams he has had the pleasure to watch perform.   Audiences who attend their shows "feel the music" and often sing, clap, and tap along. 

Jeff & Janis' "Come To The Jewish Cabaret" presentation celebrates and samples different genres and melodies of Jewish music in Hebrew, Yiddish, and English. 

A dessert social will immediately follow the performance.   This is a free admission, non-ticketed event.   Bring guests.

 Kindly RSVP either by email at office@mcjconline.org or by phone at 815-455-1810 so that the MCJC "let's have fun together" committee will know how many people to plan for.

Hebrew and Liturgy Lab

Come brush up on your Hebrew or get help learning a particular prayer or blessing. For beginners and those-in-the-know alike. No need to RSVP.

Please contact rabbi@mcjconline.org if interested in attending.

Ins and Outs of the Jewish Calendar: What do you mean a leap month? The holidays are late this year? When do I observe that yahrtzeit? And more! No need to RSVP.

MCJC Book Club Selects a Top Pick

If you want to request a copy of the next book up for discussion by the MCJC Book Club from your local library, best do it quickly. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride is topping many ‘best book of the year’ and awards lists which is making it a popular request at libraries, according to MCJC’s book club facilitator, Rachel Kamin. director of Lifelong Learning at North Suburban Synagogue Beth El. The group will discuss the book on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7 pm on Zoom.

MCJC’s Book Club meets approximately every other month to discuss Jewish-themed literature and is open to all.

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is, according to the New York Times, “A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel…charming, smart, heart-blistering and heart healing.” According to the book’s description, when a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town’s white establishment played in it.

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On Monday, February 5 from 11 am-9 pm MCJC will be having a fund-raiser at Georgio’s Chicago Pizzeria (flyer attached).  We will receive 20%  of the sales for dine-in, carryout, and delivery orders.

Our thanks to everyone who supported our previous fund-raisers at Portillo’s and Panera Bread.  This is an easy way for MCJC to raise funds while the participants enjoy either lunch or dinner.