Jewish Senior Citizen’s Centre

Reason, Reality & Religion: Is reconciliation realizable or required? Lecture 1
2025-08-20 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Edmonton) | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Join us for a new course with Professor Emeritus David WanglerWednesdays, August 20 1p.m. – 3p.m.
Fee: $45 for members | $54 for non-members
Lecture 1:
Are there substantial reasons for religion? The two oldest religions are Judaism and Hinduism, and both are present and highly significant to this very day.

Chess Club
2025-08-20 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-08-13 13:00 - 15:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Join our experienced players to enhance your skills in this strategic game. We have enough chess sets. Come and find new partners for this game.

Whimsical Wednesdays
2025-08-20 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-08-13 13:00 - 15:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Join a day of Fun, Friendship & Craft!
Do you play or want to play Canasta, Cribbage, Scrabble, Mah Jongg or other card/board games?
This is a day when you can do whatever your heart desires!
What’s more?
We offer a special light lunch that day for $10 only.
Please inform the Office about your game of choice!

Conversational Russian Club
2025-08-20 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-08-13 13:00 - 14:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Practice your conversational Russian with Russian-speakers. Have fun and enjoy new experiences!

Sunday Club on Wednesday Lunch & Learn
2025-08-20 12:00 - 15:00, 2025-08-13 12:00 - 15:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Join our Sunday Club to enjoy traditional European cuisine and a special presentation about world art, music, literature and other topics (in Russian).

De’s Crochet Club
2025-08-20 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-08-13 10:00 - 12:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Join De and Ninfa every Wednesday to crochet all types of beautiful items. We donate baby blankets & caps which are much needed to welcome new arrivals in Edmonton! Coffee/tea & cookies included. Please donate your yarns to the Centre.

Lunch Menu | August 20
2025-08-20 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Mushroom SoupBagel & Lox
Salad & Dessert

Seniors & Climate Change
2025-08-19 13:00 - 14:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Tuesday, August 19 at 1p.m.
Join the representatives (Victor, Lynne & Gerry) of organization SCAN!Edmonton (Seniors for Climate Action Now) to learn about individual and learn actions that can make difference in the area of climate change. This organization began as a small group of seniors who got together in winter 2024. Our group immediately started planning for the “Later Is Too Late” National Seniors Day for Climate Action on October 1 and have since formed collaboration, education, communications, actions, and coordinating committees.

Lunch & Learn
2025-08-19 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-08-14 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-08-12 12:00 - 13:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Every Tuesday & Thursday 12p.m. – 1:00p.m. join us for Lunch & Learn program. Our lunch-and-learn program is a fantastic way to receive important information. All speakers are invited based on members’ requests for essential topics.

Use it or Lose it With Bonnie Austen | In-person or Online
2025-08-19 10:45 - 11:45, 2025-08-12 10:45 - 11:45 | Zoom
Use it or Lose it With Bonnie Austen
Cardio & Strength training, Flexibility & Balance & Laugher
Tuesdays @10:45a.m.
https://us02web.Zoom.us/j/89274775349
Fee: $7 drop-in or card of 10 classes $60

Lunch Menu | August 19
2025-08-19 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Moroccan Peanut SoupMac & Cheese
Salad & Dessert

Young At Heart Choir Rehersals
2025-08-18 10:00 - 12:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Will start rehearsals on Mondays at 10am.
Join our wonderful choir!
Choir fee is $50 for the Fall-Winter period (you will receive a $25 tax receipt). All choir participants must be paid members of the Centre.
All choir participants must be paid members of the Centre.

YOGA Classes | Online or In-Person
2025-08-18 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
YOGA Classes
We are looking forward to seeing all of you on Monday mornings at 9:00am to 10:00am.
Monday mornings @ 9:00a.m.–10:00a.m.
Old and new faces are very WELCOME in-person & via Zoom!
Please register
https://tinyurl.com/297jwcb4

Fee: $7 drop-in or card of 10 classes $60
Instructor:

Sandy Mah

Lunch Menu | August 18
2025-08-18 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Pea Soup Pizza
Salad & Dessert

Lunch Menu | August 17
2025-08-17 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada

The Story of the Three Sareptas
2025-08-14 13:00 - 14:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Our wonderful member Erika Lafevre will do two unique presentations for you:
Alberta History.
The Story of the Three Sareptas: Zareptha (Lebanon), Old Sarepta (Russia), and New Sarepta (Alberta)
Thursday, August 14 at 1p.m.

Muscle in Motion with Anna Kratochvil | In-person or Online
2025-08-14 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Use Balls, Bands & Weights to Exercise & Laugh
Thursdays @ 11:00a.m.
https://us02web.Zoom.us/j/82287922466
Fee: $7 drop-in or card of 10 classes $60

Lunch Menu | August 14
2025-08-14 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Broccoli Soup Mushroom Stroganoff
Salad & Dessert

Mamaloshen – Yiddish Club
2025-08-13 13:30 - 15:30 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
All interested in conversational Yiddish, regardless of level, are welcome. Great atmosphere and a lot of fun!
Please register with the Office to receive the Zoom link for meetings.

Not Boring Book Club
2025-08-13 13:00 - 15:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Join our very talented Edmonton writer Debby Waldman to learn more about our unique Book Club. Join it and enjoy!
March 12, 1 pm: Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
April 9: 10 AM (note the time): Songs for the Brokenhearted by Ayelet Tsabari, who will be joining the book club that day.
May 14, 1 pm: James by Percival Everett
Please register with the Office to receive the Zoom link for meetings.

Lunch Menu | August 13
2025-08-13 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Surprise Lunch

The Life Story of My Father Paul Kagan Z”L
2025-08-12 13:00 - 15:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Tuesday, August 12 at 1p.m.Dr. Leon Kagan was born and raised in Edmonton Alberta by his parents Paul and Clara Kagan. He graduated from Talmud Torah in Edmonton and later went to the University of Alberta to study medicine, initially beginning as a family doctor and eventually becoming a geriatric psychiatrist. His mother was a holocaust survivor from Poland who spent most of the war in a Soviet work camp in Kazakhstan before coming to Canada in 1948 with her two brothers and later was joined by her parents.
Clara settled with her family in Edmonton and married Paul Kagan at the old Beth Israel synagogue in Edmonton in 1951. Paul Kagan was a holocaust survivor from Vilna, Lithuania. Clara passed away in April,2024 and Paul died October, 2008. Today Leon will tell the story of his father’s life, detailing his courage to survive amongst the unspeakable horrors of the holocaust.
