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Drumroll please: LifeTown unveiled a new musical instrument area on the stage in the LifeTown Theater. The new music center was created by Rae Meyer in honor of her Bat Mitzvah. It includes enough...

Friendship Circle’s popular Mitzvah Volunteer Program (MVP), for tweens and teens in 6th and 7th grades, teaches the art of giving, volunteering, and making a difference. Learn the Jewish perspective on Tikkun Olam, improving...

Friendship Circle aims to help teen mental health with UMatter program By LARRY YUDELSON – New Jersey Jewish News https://njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com/everyone-is-going-through-their-own-battles/ A new program led by Chabad rabbis aims to help teens support their peers through mental...

In Episode 17 of Lamplighters: Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier, Lamplighters Reporter/Producer Gary Waleik presents the story of Rabbi Zalman and Toba Grossbaum, who started the country’s second Friendship Circle program and expanded into the...

Keren, from West Orange, had not been to a Friendship Circle program in over a year. Rachel Fink of North Caldwell, who had volunteered on and off with the Friendship Circle for five years...

Sheina Herrera lives in St. Martin, where it’s 85 degrees every day. “The weather never changes,” she said. When she moved there from West Orange over the summer with her husband so he could...

Club Night always means a night of fun for Friendship Circle’s 21 and over crowd. Every month, the group gathers for socializing, activities, and of course, food. January’s club night featured paint your own...

Paints and canvas went together in one cellophane sack, recipe cards for winter cookies along with Cocoa, flour, and sugar in another. Then volunteers carefully packed them together in a bag, one for every...

Lauren Sherman Doberman started volunteering with Friendship Circle in 2001, when she was 12. Back then, she visited Dina Kaufman in her home in Montclair as part of the Friends@Home program. This week, Lauren...

First came the shopping checklist and a quick jaunt to ShopRite. Then, there was DIY sushi. And that was just the beginning of Cooking and Art at Lifetown in Livingston on a recent Wednesday...