{"id":11812,"date":"2006-10-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/10\/02\/jersey-city-celebrates-navaratri\/"},"modified":"2006-10-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T12:00:00","slug":"jersey-city-celebrates-navaratri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/10\/02\/jersey-city-celebrates-navaratri\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey City Celebrates Navaratri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hudsonreporter.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=17264817&#038;BRD=1291&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=523586&#038;rfi=6\">www.hudsonreporter.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, October 1, 2006: From September 29 to October 7, a one block area of Newark Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey, will be the center of a huge religious and cultural block party. Navaratri 2006 is scheduled to take place on each of the days from 7 p.m. up to 2 a.m. (rain or shine). It is a street festival that will see singing and dancing performances and worship services. The Navaratri event in Jersey City has taken place since 2002, and this year&#8217;s event is free of charge and jointly hosted by the Jersey City Asian Merchant Association (JCAMA) with Govinda Sanskar Center, the Journal Square Restoration Corporation, and Jersey City&#8217;s Urban Enterprise Zone. Raj Patel, the president of the JCAMA, one of the founders of the festival in Jersey City, said, &#8220;&#8230; we have gotten crowds of upwards of 10,000 people per night.&#8221; This year&#8217;s Navaratri celebration will be graced by the presence of Indian music star Devang Patel, a frequent performer at Navaratri celebration in his home country. He is scheduled to perform on October 6. Also scheduled to appear at this year&#8217;s event are U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy, Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise. Also among the dignitaries excited to be present is City Councilman Steve Lipski, who represents the &#8220;Little India&#8221; area. &#8220;I love doing it every year,&#8221; Lipski said. &#8220;I have my own kurta, raas garba sticks&#8230;.I am extremely delighted with the music and atmosphere.&#8221; This year&#8217;s celebration is also a fundraiser to provide for one-teacher schools in rural India and for medical organizations here in Jersey City.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hudsonreporter.com JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, October 1, 2006: From September 29 to October 7, a one block area of Newark,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}