News and updates from the Friendship Circle of Livingston, NJ Blog
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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?
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...
Over the last two weeks, dozens of Friendship Circle families in Livingston, Short Hills, Millburn and West Orange, took part in a car parade organized by Friendship Circle. The parades included FC staff and...