3 Tips for Children Who Have Never Played Sports
And Another 3 for the Parents Who Coach Them (Published Mar 10, 2015) As Director of Athletics, parents often ask me if it’s okay for their children to play sports if they’ve never played the sport before. Yes! Here are three tips for getting started: Look for an Introductory Program. The JCC’s youth sports programs are […]
7 Tips for Making a Resolution That Sticks
(Published Jan 2, 2015) So you’ve made yourself a promise. You told your friends and family, this is the year! You’re going to cut back on sweets, eat more vegetables and work out every day! That mini marathon you just signed up for is just a warm-up for the Tough Mudder, Spartan series race and […]
9 Tips for Healthier Holiday Cooking, and Eating!
(Published Nov 20, 2014) Fact: The greatest number of heart attacks occurs on the same three days each year. According to a study published in the journal Circulation, you are most likely to die from a heart attack during the winter holidays. Overindulgence is one key factor: over the holidays, we tend to overeat in […]
10 Tips for Choosing a Summer Camp
(Published Nov 13, 2014) Looking for a summer program for your child that will allow them to have fun, make friends, be safe and develop new skills? Be sure to ask any program you are considering these questions to ensure your child will have a blast and the program meets your needs for appropriateness and […]
6 Tips for a Healthy Halloween
(Published Oct 30, 2014) Does Halloween start the downward slippery slide off of your health goals? It is easy to get derailed this time of year when so many holidays fall in succession. Every January, I see a spike in the number of clients trying to lose weight after a torrent of holiday parties and […]
Jews Telling Jokes–Old and Otherwise
(Published Oct 13, 2014) Who knows when Jewish Humor began? Nu, there is humor in the Torah and the Mishnah. Getting a little closer to home, American comedy would be very different if not for Jewish humorists. Here, in no particular order is a tiny sampling of the Jewish people who have made America laugh. […]
Book Review: Truth Be Told
(Published Oct 12, 2014) Jane Ryland is having a bad day. She is slogging through her current job as the only reporter for an online edition of the local Boston newspaper after her unfair firing from television news for refusing to reveal a source. While decidedly less glamorous, this job pays the bills, which is […]
New JCC Fitness Specialist Is A Real Ironman
by Lisa DeHayes (Published Aug 19, 2014) “Swimming for me is like trying not to drown for an hour,” says JCC newcomer and Fitness Specialist, Chad VanDerwall. Still, Chad has been hitting the waves a lot lately, training for his first full Ironman competition in Louisville later this month. The event includes 2.4 miles of […]
RECESS is Coming to the JCC
by JCC staff (Published July 29, 2014) Have you noticed that kids get more wiggly and less fit as the school day gets longer and the study load gets more intense? The demands of curriculum and performance standards create challenges in terms of what can fit into a typical student day. Unfortunately, it often means less recess […]
JCC Farmers Market
by Katherine Matutes, Ph.D. (Published June 16, 2014) I can’t decide what to eat first when I get home from my shift as the Market Master at the new JCC Farmers Market, each Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. We unpack the loot and start noshing. Everything is of course supremely fresh, but what […]