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Win the $300* Photo Contest

It's easy to participate!

1  - Take a great photo of someone you love at our newly renovated indoor pool

2  - Send your photo to admin@shawjcc.org

       (You can include a description if you'd like)

3  - View your photo on our facebook page and spread the word. The photo wit…

Clothing Donation

Rabbi Israel Salanter has taught that “(One) should be more concerned with spiritual than material matters, but another person’s material welfare is (one’s) spiritual concern.” Bearing this thought in mind, we recently heard on the radio that both the clothing and food banks at the A…

Children's Art Show

“The true work of art is born from the Artist: a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.” …

Chanukah

Chanukah comes at a point in time when the days here in Akron are cold and dark- a light now can be very powerful, both in a practical and metaphorical sense. The festival of lights, Chanukah, draws to a close. We have spent several weeks preparing for the holiday- learning about its histori…

Watch this Chanukah video clip made by our Israeli Shlichim

Watch this Chanukah video clip prepared by our Israeli Shlichim - Tohar and Ofri! You'll be delighted to see snippets from the Early Childhood Education classrooms at the JCC, and from the Menorah Factory at the Home Depot that was organized by Chabad of Akron and Canton and spons…