Shake, Bake & Paint
Dozens of Friendship Circle families and community members are coming together, from the comfort of their own homes, to take part in the myriad of virtual programs offered. A slate of cooking and baking...
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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...
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...
2020 Friendship Circle Virtual Banquet Recap
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.
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...
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...