JCC stories

For ninth-graders Jason Johnson and Kevin Morales, volunteering as tutors in Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan’s Gift of Literacy and Math programs this summer was something of a déjà vu experience. In elementary school, they were students in the program themselves.

In the JCC’s Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Family Auditorium, a group of 15 teens and senior citizens walk out in silence before a waiting audience. They’re there to share stories—the Holocaust survival stories of the very seniors now seated on the stage.

While the brain/body connection for practices like yoga is relatively clear, the link in other fitness modalities is no less important. All are about “consciously connecting how the brain is influenced by movement, or the reverse,” says Chapman.

When the JCC's Joseph Stern Center for Social Responsibility was launched, it already has significant muscle behind it.

In 2011, the ReelAbilities NY Film Festival screened the film Wretches and Jabberers, a documentary about two nonverbal men with autism.

The new name is just one step. “It’s fun and exciting,” says Kanter. “Changing the name is an expression of our readiness to move forward.”

David Hatcher and his husband, Herbert Godoy, found their son, Jaylen, through David's job, but they found a community through the JCC.

Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan has long prided itself on its deep connection to Israel; in fact, that connection is one of our core values.

Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan's third-floor gym may not be the first place you'd expect to see a group of anglers practicing their fly fishing skills, but the JCC is a surprising place.

The JCC purchased a beautiful 21-acre property in Pomona, NY, in January 2016. The site, formerly a German biergarten known as the Platzl Brauhaus, quickly morphed into a state-of-the-art Jewish day camp we named Camp Settoga, complete with a heated Olympic-size pool, a 16-element challenge course, tennis courts, basketball, gymnastics, golf, culinary arts, a working garden, and much more.