YOUNG ADULTS LOG INTO CAMP FUN
* Your gift to the Summer CAMPaign makes this and other programs possible! A group of young adults with special needs have been spending their weekday mornings in camp, virtually, where they recite morning...
Category: Covid-19
Carnival Brings Out Families for Summer Fun, Social-Distance Style
Mark Henderson had barely entered the CARnival on Sunday when he proclaimed “this is the most fun we’ve had in a long time.” Sitting beside him, his son Louis, was eager to show his...
Morristown Gets Visit by FC Car Parade
Emergency vehicles, including local police and fire trucks, joined the staff and volunteers of Friendship Circle as they drove through Morristown and Morris Township recently to “visit” children with special needs. It was the...
Cheesecake Bake
Several dozen Friendship Circle families participated in an online cheesecake workshop last week, with all the ingredients supplied by Friendship Circle. The class was held before the holiday of Shavuot, which commemorates the receiving...
Friendship Circle’s Personal Touch Is Subject of News Story
Friendship Circle’s car parades, virtual programming and efforts to maintain connections during the Covid-19 outbreak were the subject of a recent article from Lubavitch news story. The article by Liba Riemer also looks at...
Jewish Link Profiles LifeTown Artist and Kotel
Friendship Circle art instructor and LifeTown’s kotel maker Miriam Sasson was featured in the Jewish Link newspaper. The paper looked at how Mara created the replica of the Western Wall in the synagogue at...
A NONSTOP (CAR) PARADE OF SMILES
As they waited for the car parade from Friendship Circle to arrive, Fran and her grandson, Yitzy, took turns holding a sign they had made for the occasion. It read “We miss and we...
FC Distributes 10,000 Masks!
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in mid-March, Friendship Circle has been providing much-needed masks to medical workers, frontline employees and families with special needs members thanks to the generosity of private donors. The N-95...
FC Reduces Isolation for Families
Did you catch the article “For Families With Special Needs, Online Visits Before Passover Reduce Isolation and Stress” about the amazing work Friendship Circles, including FCNJ, are doing during the pandemic?
Shabbat Food for the Quarantined Soul
For two weeks in early May, hundreds of families got a dose of nourishment and nurturing Shabbats thanks to a special care packages from Friendship Circle. The first week’s “Challah and Chicken Soup for...