The Sounds of the Shofar Factory Sound Like Fun
The run-up to Rosh Hashanah found LifeTown parking lot a buzz of activity as dozens of families gathered under the big tent for the annual Rosh Hashanah Shofar Factory. Held outdoors and with social...
Category: Families
Dine-In Balloon Show
The LifeTown parking lot was transformed into an outdoor auditorium, as families gathered for dinner and a 45-minute balloon-art performance by Todd from the Twisted Balloon Show. During the program, kids watched with amazement...
Pickling With Dad
Friendship Circle continues its fun, interactive summer programming slate with an event just for Dad! A group of FC dads gathered together online recently to learn the basics of making pickles – from what...
Celebrities Headline Global Shabbat Party for Children with Special Needs
Tens of thousands of people from around the world joined children, teens and adults with special needs for a virtual, star-studded Global Shabbat Party. The event was created to help ease the isolation and...
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...
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?