Hours

Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC
760 Northfield Ave, West Orange NJ

Fitness Hours 
Sunday - 7:00am-7:00pm
Monday - Thursday - 5:30am-10:00pm
Friday - 5:30am-6:00pm
Saturday - 7:00am-7:00pm

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New Jewish Holiday Operations Policies

The JCC Board of Trustees unanimously approved a change in the agency's Jewish holiday operations policies at its February 2012 meeting, after several months of review by a Board-established task force working in consultation with rabbinical leaders of the MetroWest Jewish community. Under the new policy, JCC Health and Wellness facilities, as well as select other programs will be open and available to members on some Jewish holidays during which the agency has previously been closed. JCC policy changes will not affect operations on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, the evening of the first Passover Seder and the entire day of the second Seder, during which the Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC Building and all of its programs will continue to be closed.

"The establishment of the Jewish Holiday Operations Task Force by the JCC Board was a response to loud and clear feedback from many of our Jewish members," stated Joyce Goldstein, Co-Chair of the JCC MetroWest Board of Trustees. "In our continually evolving Jewish community, uniformity, even within denominations, but especially for those who are ‘unaffiliated,' is no longer a norm. In a certain sense, today, all Jews are ‘Jews-by-choice' - meaning that each Jew ‘chooses' how he/she observes, celebrates, commemorates, and practices his/her Judaism."

The Task Force, whose members cut across all denominations and included two MetroWest rabbis, recognized that the JCC is a "...pluralistic Jewish agency serving a community with a diverse constituency of Jews and Jewish practices." The Task Force's report recommended this change in JCC policy in an effort to be "...attractive to a larger segment of the Jewish community who either stay away or choose to leave the JCC due to the current holiday operations policies, which do not value their Jewish practice choices." The Task Force concluded that, "A change in policy is also necessary to assure that certain segments of that [Jewish] constituency remain connected to the Jewish community via programs and services they need/desire, in hope that this connection will lead to increased Jewish involvement."

The JCC will observe the following schedule of building operation hours on Jewish holidays (changes are highlighted):

JCC MetroWest takes pride in infusing strong Jewish content across our broad programmatic landscape. Among many others, JCC MetroWest's accomplishments in Jewish education include: receiving the 2012 International Florence Melton Award for excellence in Jewish Education programming for our Melton Adult Mini-School Jewish education program, which serves 160 participants at seven sites, including six area synagogues; implementing the Ethical Start Judaic curriculum in our Early Childhood program; providing a network of Jewish education programs for older adults via the Amelia & Ephraim Hirschhorn Senior Adult Jewish Education Program offered at 19 area synagogues and the JCC; hosting an annual Synagogue Showcase to promote synagogue affiliation; and engaging young families in Tikkun Olam projects via our annual Mitzvah March at Camp Deeny Riback.

The new policies will take effect for the upcoming Pesach (Passover) holiday in regard to the operations of JCC Health, Fitness, and certain Aquatics programs & facilities.

The JCC will close at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, April 6th (first Seder night) and remain closed for the entire day on Saturday, April 7th (second Seder night), but will be open for the remainder of the Passover holiday. The impact of the policy changes on other agency programs (i.e. Early Childhood, Kids Club, Senior Adult Programs, Special Needs programs, etc.) is currently being reviewed. These changes, as well as the entire calendar of JCC operations for the remainder of 2012 through June 2013 will be announced as soon as the review process is complete. Any changes in holiday operations for programs other than Health, Fitness, and certain Aquatics programs and facilities will take effect beginning September 2012. Please visit www.jccmetrowest.org, watch for email blasts, and check posters at the Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC for updated information.

If you have any questions regarding the aforementioned changes in JCC policy, please contact Alan Feldman, CEO, at AFeldman@jccmetrowest.org.

 

Holiday Schedule 2012-2013

Thursday, April 19
Yom Ha’Shoah
Regular Hours

Wednesday, April 25
Yom Ha’Zikaron
Regular Hours

Thursday, April 26
Yom Ha’Atzmaut
Regular Hours

Thursday, May 10
Lag B’Omer
Regular Hours

Sunday, May 20
Yom Yerushalayim
Regular Hours

Saturday, May 26
Erev Shavuot
Regular Hours

Sunday, May 27
Shavuot, Day 1
Regular Hours

Monday, May 28
Shavuot, Day 2
CLOSED (for Memorial Day)

Monday, May 28
Memorial Day
CLOSED

Wednesday, July 4
Independence Day
7:00am–7:00pm

Sunday, July 29
Tisha B’Av Observed
Regular Hours

Thursday, August 9
Fall Registration Opens
Regular Hours

Monday, September 3
Labor Day
7:00am–7:00pm

Sunday, September 16
Erev Rosh Hashanah
7:00am–3:00pm

Sunday, September 16
Fall Semester Begins
Regular Hours

Monday, September 17
Rosh Hashanah, Day 1
CLOSED

Tuesday, September 18
Rosh Hashanah, Day 2
CLOSED

Tuesday, September 25
Kol Nidre
5:30am–3:00pm

Wednesday, September 26
Yom Kippur
CLOSED

Sunday, September 30
Erev Sukkot
Regular Hours

Monday, October 1
Sukkot, Day 1
Regular Hours

Tuesday, October 2
Sukkot, Day 2
Regular Hours

Sunday, October 7
Erev Shemini Atzeret
Regular Hours

Monday, October 8
Shemini Atzeret
Regular Hours

Tuesday, October 9
Simchat Torah
Regular Hours

Teachers Convention
Regular Hours

Thursday, November 22
Thanksgiving Day
7:00am–2:00pm

Friday, November 23
Day After Thanksgiving
Regular Hours

December 8-16
Hanukkah
Regular Hours

Thursday, December 13
Winter Registration Open
Regular Hours

Winter Break
Regular Hours

Monday, December 24
Christmas Eve
5:30am–7:00pm

Tuesday, December 25
Christmas Day
7:00am–7:00pm

Monday, December 31
New Year’s Eve
5:30am–7:00pm

Tuesday, January 1, 2013
New Year’s Day
7:00am–7:00pm

Monday, January 21
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Regular Hours

Saturday, January 26
Tu B’Shevat
Regular Hours

Sunday, January 27
Winter Semester Begins
Regular Hours

Monday, February 18
Presidents Day
Regular Hours

Sunday, February 24
Purim
Regular Hours