The Jewish Community Center of Middlesex County will hold its12th annual Priscilla Glinn Memorial Golf Classic on Monday, June 24 at the Metuchen Golf and Country Club in Edison. The outing supports the Priscilla Glinn Memorial Fund for Senior LifeLong Living at the JCC, providing services and programs that enlighten, engage, educate and entertain those age 55 and older. Registration will begin 10 a.m. followed by brunch, a $10,000 cash putt-off, shotgun start and grand dinner reception featuring live and silent auctions. Men must wear collared shirts and no cargo shorts will be allowed. Soft spikes only.
Awards will be given to the first and second place scramble teams and third team random draw. There will be contests for the longest drive, men’s and women’s closest to the crazy line, closest to the pin challenge and the Pro Murray Miller Memorial Pot O’ Gold Cash Hole.
Tickets for various contests and sponsorships are available. Tickets for golfers 24 and under are $200; others, $350, which includes fees and cart, locker room, player giveaway, on-course beverages and snacks, brunch and grand reception. Grand reception and open bar, $95.
For information or to support the event, contact Senior Development Officer Talia Tor at (732) 593-5967, ttor@jccmc.org or CEO Adam Glinn at (732) 593-5965 or aglinn@jccmc.org. To register go to jccmc.org.
Dalia Ziada, an award-winning Egyptian writer and political analyst specializing in governance, geopolitics and defense policy in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean, will appear virtually at the annual congregational meeting of the Highland Park Conservative Temple-Congregation Anshe Emeth on Thursday, June 20. The meeting will begin 8 p.m. but Ziada will speak for an hour, beginning 8:30 p.m., on “Navigating the Geopolitical Political Crossroads: Insights from the Middle East.”
She will focus on such topics as the war in Gaza, the future of American-Egyptian relations against the backdrop of the American presidential election and current economic challenges, the Arab leadership’s view of Israel, radical Islam, influence of Iran and the Israel-Hamas War’s affect on stability in the region. In 2015, Ziada co-founded the Cairo-based Liberal Democracy Institute, which she currently chairs, is a board member of the foreign affairs Committee of Egypt’s National Council for Women and is executive director of MEEM Center for Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean Studies.
To register for the Zoom or for more information, go to https://www.hpct-cae.org.
Eli Beer, the founder and president of United Hatzalah of Israel will be guest speaker during Shabbat services at Congregation Brothers of Israel in Long Branch on June 22 to kick off its summer guest speaker series. In the early morning of Oct. 7 he received one of the first calls about the terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel. Beer took control of its command center and dispatched more than 1,700 volunteers to help evacuate and treat victims. Beer continued to work to coordinate with police, military and hospitals throughout Israel before leaving to go south to the Gaza periphery to set up a massive field hospital and dispatch system, which allowed United Hatzalah to save many more lives.
Beer has worked in emergency medical response since 1988 and lectures to health organization on various topics including emergency response and tech innovation in the medical field.
For information or to be a sponsor or co-sponsor contact Roz Ben David at roz@brothersofisrael.org.
Join Edison/Highland Park Peace of Mind on Thursday, June 20 at 8 p.m. at Congregation Ahavas Achim in Highland Park for a program, “What Happens After the Battle.” The program will featuring Chaim Landau, head of development and partnership at Peace of Mind Metiv: The Israel Psychotrauma Center; Dr. Elissa Rozov, a local psychologist specializing in trauma and Peace of Mind program alumni sharing personal stories of healing. Dessert reception will follow.
Peace of mind is a therapeutic intervention in which groups of 15-20 IDF veterans who served together in a high-risk combat unit are hosted by a community for a week. During that time, with the help of two therapists they process their combat experiences in a space where the can work through their trauma. Host communities agree to pay their expenses and house them. Being able to break from their daily routine and receive a warm welcome helps in their healing process as does being able to talk freely with therapists and each other. Past participants have reported an increased sense of social support and daily function as well as a lessening of depressive symptoms.
Cost is $25 to be earmarked used to support an IDF combat unit coming in the fall to the community.
For more information, contact Natalie Aloyets Artel at naloyets@yahoo.com or (732) 535-0928.
