June 2018
Come join the 14th Street Y with PJ Library and the Union Square Partnership as we read stories and sing songs together every Thursday afternoon at Summer in the Square! This week Tkiya’s Music Educator, Carla Friend, will be performing the story It’s a Mitzvah. In this book, Mitzvah Meerkat will teach us why it is important to be kind, and how easy it is to perform an act of kindness each day. This is an awesome event you won’t want…
Join us and members of the 14th Street Y and Manny Cantor Center in creating signs for the June 30th rally organized by Families Belong Together, a broad coalition of immigrants’ rights, religious, justice, and legal advocacy groups. Please bring your own materials! Due to capacity limits, please RSVP by clicking the registration button below.
July 2018
Come join the 14th Street Y with PJ Library and the Union Square Partnership as we read stories and sing songs together every Thursday afternoon at Summer in the Square! This week's show will be based on the PJ Library story Beautiful Yetta, written by Daniel Pinkwater and illustrated by Jill Pinkwater. In this story, Yetta the chicken teaches children what it means to be brave even when you find yourself in a new city or place. WonderSpark Puppets will grab…
Come join the 14th Street Y with PJ Library and the Union Square Partnership as we read stories and sing songs together every Thursday afternoon at Summer in the Square! This week WonderSpark Puppets will engage the children with a live performance of the PJ Library story Chicken Soup, Chicken Soup by written by Pamela Mayer and illustrated by Deborah Melmon. This show will help kids understand the values of tradition through the eyes of a precocious granddaughter with Jewish and Chinese grandmothers.You won’t…
Come join the 14th Street Y with PJ Library and the Union Square Partnership as we read stories and sing songs together every Thursday afternoon at Summer in the Square! This week we will be reading the PJ Library story Oy Feh So?, written by Cary Fagan and illustrated by Gary Clement, a silly story that highlights the importance of family. Following our story time we will continue learning about this theme through a fun sing-along and performance lead by Jewish…
Come join the 14th Street Y with PJ Library and the Union Square Partnership as we read stories and sing songs together every Thursday afternoon at Summer in the Square! This week we have Katherine Sackman, Jewish Music Educator form Tkiya, leading a special kid-friendly performance and sing along based on the PJ Library story Joseph Had a Little Overcoat. This story teaches the classic lesson that if we are creative we can always make something new from what we already…
August 2018
Come join the 14th Street Y with PJ Library and the Union Square Partnership as we read stories and sing songs together every Thursday afternoon at Summer in the Square! This week WonderSpark Puppets will put on a show based on the PJ Library story Rise & Shine: A Challah–Day Tale, which teaches about a traditional Jewish food Challah. This show will have a mystery plot related to a traditional challah bread recipe help kids understand the importance of tradition and how…
Looking to take action to support immigrant, migrant, and refugee families? Don't miss the second #14YMobilize Community Forum at the 14th Street Y. Join us on Wednesday, August 8 from 6:30 - 8:00 PM We're gathering as a community to express our deep concerns regarding the "zero-tolerance" immigration policy, their implications to asylum-seeking families at our borders, and to find ways to help those families who’ve been torn apart. Together, let us address how policies like these impact our families, our…