Oceanside Jewish Center ("OJC") is affiliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. We are an egalitarian congregation and a nurturing community which provides opportunities for Jews of all ages and backgrounds to live in the presence of God through religious observance, Jewish learning and acts of social responsibility. Fax: (516) 536-0347 and www.oceansidejewishcenter.org

This is our OJC Website. Participation in this website by our members is encouraged. If you have any news, pictures, files or event information please email it to our web master. You can drop off what you have at the main office marked attention, Stuart Talkofsky.

To contact our office via email please email us at mainoffice@oceansidejewishcenter.org  Join our Group on Facebook Shared Selichot Study and Service Saturday Evening, September 4, 2010 - 9:00 PM Jacob Dallal :To Engage or Disengage: Navigating Israel's Public Relations Challenge and the essence of Selichot)  See more information in our online flyer with directions to Oceanside Jewish Center. High Holiday Schedule is Online Wed 9/ 8 - Erev Rosh Hashanah 6:30 PM service Thursday 9/9 - First Day of Rosh Hashanah  - 8:30 AM morning service Thursday 9/9 - First Day of Rosh Hashanah - 6:30 PM evening service see schedule for more times. NOT TOO LATE TO PURCHASE TICKETS -  516-536-6112 or email mainoffice@oceansidejewishcenter.org NEW!! OCEANSIDE JEWISH CENTER CALENDAR If you see the Calendar is not being updated with your event, contact the Main Office. Email - mainoffice@oceansidejewishcenter.org New!! Religious School Calendar 2010 - 2011 This will be updated in the future This is a .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) file. You can print this to the size paper you have available. See Religious School Pages for more school information Meet our new Director of Congregational Education and Jewish Living (DOCE) Francis Perlman Visit the Religious School's Web Pages and read her introduction. SEE FULL FLYER - CLICK THIS Bar and Bat Mitzvah Schedules have been updated as of  Click this to see the listing. Our PTA Needs Your Help Dear Parents, This is a critical time at Oceanside Jewish Center PTA. This is the time of year when we start to pick our board for the next school year. Many of our PTA board have children who are graduating. We have many positions open and need your help to fill them. None of the positions require a huge time commitment. Those remaining on the board will offer assistance also. If you have children in Religious School and Nursery School, that is fine as our PTA is for both schools. Please contact one of us if you are interested in ANY of the following positions. If you have a friend or two who would like to take the position with you, that is fine. President Fundraising Vice President Membership Vice President Holidays Chair Thanks, Paula Goldberg Laurie Stumer email us at: pta@oceansidejewishcenter.org   OJC Now Has A Facebook Group!! Announce, Discuss, Post, Share You can also search for Oceanside Jewish Center in Facebook Search. Oceanside JC is not the Facebook group, it is just a posting account We have Joined the 21st Century! (click above to go to Facebook Group) Open to everyone with a Facebook account ( www.facebook.com ) to view this public Facebook group. It is FREE except, you have to give up information about yourself (it is up to you what you tell them).   You do not have to "friend" (a facebook term) anyone to join our group, thus keeping your privacy. You do have to join the group in order to post. Every Facebook registrant can read what is posted. Members of this Group will be able to post: Discussions, Links, Photos, Announce Events - personal, religious, synagogue related, or appropriate outside information. This is OUR group, members of this group decide what to talk about. We do reserve the right to delete inappropriate material. We do not want to censor and administer as little as possible. This will be maintained by several administrators. See Oceanside Jewish Center's Sisterhood  Activities Photos OJC and Inclusion of People with Disabilities. Information about OJC, and how we are enhancing our synagogue to include everyone. (Click on the words above for further information.) Rabbi Greenspan's Israel Journal As you all might know, Rabbi Greenspan, is studying in Israel this Summer for 6 Weeks. He has been sending to many of his Torah Table Talk subscribers a wonderful journal with photos of life as he sees and lives it in Israel. This is a worth while reading. VOLUME 1 VOLUME 2 VOLUME 3 VOLUME 4 VOLUME 5 VOLUME 6 VOLUME 7 VOLUME 8 VOLUME 9 The Rabbi's email is rabbi@oceansidejewishcenter.org HIGH HOLY DAY YOUTH PROGRAM & FAMILY SERVICE WHEN:ROSH HASHANAH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9TH Youth Program: 10:45 AM-12:30 PM For grade school, young children & teens Family Service: 10:45 AM-12:45 Children accompanied by parent(s) WHEN:YOM KIPPUR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH Youth Program: 11:00 AM-12:45 PM (All Ages) (No Family Service on Yom Kippur) *** Please RSVP to the Religious School office relschool@oceansidejewishcenter.org  for one or both. Please indicate your child’s age and which day(s) he/she will participate. Oceanside Jewish Center Religious School Family Education Program Sunday, October 3rd 10-11:30 AM Families of children Pre K - 4th grade Religious School and Pre-School are invited! Topic: Building Jewish Rituals; bring a white pillowcase. RSVP: to theReligious School - or call 516-764-4213 Week of Giving - We Thank You! A very special and heartfelt thank you to so many OJC congregants who participated in a Week of Giving with members of Young Israel, Temple Avodah and the Friedberg JCC.   Over one hundred people were added to the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Registry due to the tremendous efforts of members of our community. Our blood drive added over 70 pints at a time of critical shortages. We worked together with one heart and one goal...to save lives. The compassion and commitment of our volunteers and donors truly raises the spirits and hopes of those giving and those receiving.                                                              Adele Murphy/Peter Stone/Paula Spector OJC has been actively involved with several other religious institutions in Oceanside providing much needed care to homeless families. This project is being coordinated by Family Promise of Nassau County. Recently, St. Anthony’s, one of the neighborhood churches, was the host location. A well organized staff was key in arranging a successful program. Each congregation supplies volunteers to the host venue to assist with food prep and other activities. OJC is scheduled to be the host congregation for the week of Dec. 26th thru Jan. 2nd. Please contact Stacey Glickman at (516) 678-5223 or seglickman@hotmail.com to volunteer or for more detailed information. This is truly a wonderful opportunity for the OJC family to give back to the greater community and surely fulfills the Mitzvah of providing for those in need. We look forward to your participation in this most noble program. DINNER JOURNAL DANCE 2010 VIEW THE JOURNAL FROM THE DANCE HONORING Jolene Boden & Anna Matathias Photos of OJC Men's Club - June 22, 2010 - Golf Outing Honoring Seymour Mensch and Julie Rand Middle Bay - Country Club (view with Microsoft Internet Explorer - probably will not work well with other viewers, sorry) Updated! Blessings before and after reading the Torah with oral instructions by our Cantor,  Gadi Elon Updated OJC's Past Events Page See photos of past events at OJC over the years   Download History Passover Haggadot Translated and Reviewed by Rabbi Greenspan Haggadot Translations and Adaptations by Rabbi Mark Greenspan (click above to view the page with the various haggadot the Rabbi has spent lots of time translating and reviewing) OJC In The News and related items Latest Additions: * The Women of the Wall (METNY - USCJ Article) The Women of the Wall were harassed by people screaming at them about their being an embarrassment to the Jewish people.  Other Jews cursed all the men - including Rabbis Steven Wernick, Ron Fish, Mark Greenspan, and me - who were clearly there to support these brave women - women such as Marilyn Greenspan;  July - 2010 Rabbi's OJC Journal from Israel - mentioning the topic. MetNY-USCJ Article - Women at the Wall *Soles for Souls - Our very own Ilana Blumenthal daughter of members Dan and Leslie Blumenthal along with Rabbi Greenspan appear in February 25th - March 3, 2010, Herald. (seen this in print in the Long Beach Herald. *The Unthinkable as a Tolerance Lesson OJC  Board  member Peter Stone is mentioned in this article about the Holocaust. Tolerance Center in Glen Cove reopens. NY Times - 2-14-2010  (If the link doesn't work, use this .pdf link -- OJC LINK TO ARTICLE. ) *Rabbi Greenspan's, Yom Kippur Article and Photo in Oceanside/Long Island Herald Events, Staff, Members or anything else relating to Oceanside Jewish Center that makes the press, or other media. Please email links, scanned copies of news stories or photos to webmaster@oceansidejewishcenter.org.  No scanner? No worries, you can leave clippings/articles or photos for the webmaster at the office and we scan it ourselves, properly returning it to you in a short time. Our Professional Staff Our telephone number is 516-536-6112 President Jeffrey Hahn Executive Vice President William Gurman Rabbi Mark B.Greenspan Director of Congregational Education and Jewish Living (DOCE) Frances Pearlman Religious Director Steven Barr Cantor Gadi Elon   Early Childhood Director 516-764-4213 Anita Hoine Youth Director Andrea Moskowitz DAILY MINYAN SCHEDULE Visiting relatives or here in New York on business, from out of town?   We welcome everyone to our Daily Minyan. You do not have to be member. SUNDAY MORNING 9:00 AM MONDAY / THURSDAY MORNING 6:50 AM TUESDAY / WEDNESDAY / FRIDAY  MORNING 7:00 AM   SUNDAY - THURSDAY  EVENING 8:00 PM SHABBAT SCHEDULE varies week to week SHABBAT CANDLE LIGHTING AND SERVICE SCHEDULE (click this and a small window will open over this with the schedule)