Around our community

The Friendship Circle of Passaic County held a yoga class led by Shirley Veale for moms and their special needs children. Other classes will be on Sundays, April 23 and May 21, at the Chabad Center of Passaic County in Wayne. (Courtesy FC)

The Glen Rock Jewish Center’s gimel class held a mock wedding, complete with chuppah, reception, and the Jewish traditions surrounding a real wedding. (Courtesy GRJC)

Religious school students at Shomrei Torah in Wayne engaged in a program with Murray Spiegel, co-author of “300 Ways to Ask the Four Questions.” (Courtesy Shomrei Torah)

The eighth National Russian Shabbaton was held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Stamford, Conn. Participants included Rabbi Mordechai and Shterney Kanelsky, executive and associate director of Bris Avrohom in Fair Lawn. Sofa Landver, Israel’s Minister of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, pictured center, was a guest speaker. Participants came from seven countries and 16 states; approximately 100 guests were from Bris Avrohom. (Courtesy BA)

Rachel Dewan led a morning of “Jewish Yoga” at Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodclff Lake. It was sponsored by the shul’s religious school. (Courtesy TEPV)

Temple Beth Tikvah’s Rabbi Meeka Simerly, Cantor Charles Romalis and its ritual committee introduced the congregation to its new siddur, “Mishkan T’Filah,” during services on March 31. A cake representing the new book was served at a festive oneg Shabbat. (Courtesy TBT)