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...
* 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...
They gathered in Livingston, in Randolph, in Short Hills and in cities around the world. From kitchen stools and living room sofas, more than 1,000 people joined together online for the Friendship Circle Annual Banquet, COVID-style.
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 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...
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...
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?
Friends and supporters filled the halls of LifeTown on Jan. 9 to honor the “Circle of Friends” recipients: Sharon and Seth Apple, Brooke and Aryeh Czarka, Mira Sasson, and Julie and Jonathan Schwartz. For...
