Jewish Community Center - Schenectady, New York

matt F.

Friendly staff, great classes, regularly upgrading the equipment. So glad SJCC is in the community.

KELE K.

Schenectady JCC has been great during the Covid Crisis. Since the beginning all Staff is made to wear masks and all members must wear them when not doing there specific activity(before the vaccination members had to wear them at all times except when in the pool). They have followed all state and federal mandates regarding cleaning and sanitizing. Their Daycare is amazing. in the beginning they had made all parents call the building and then would send the children out. now they do allow parents in the building to pick up their kids but only in certain areas. They make all members aware of any positive covid cases in their weekly news letter. Their front desk staff are really nice. The one who works on Tuesday nights is great. She always says hi to me by name and will ask about my family or just something off hand about something I said a few weeks ago. It feels like the SJCC people care about you as you and not just as a member. For some people they make look at the member price and say it's to much but when you put it against a fitness center rate and what you'll get the JCC price is fantastic. Your not just paying for the fitness center your also paying for the Pool and the classes. most fitness centers won't have all the classes that the JCC as for free with your membership. Other places will make you pay extra. Yes with covid the classes are less than they had been but every month or so they are filling out the schedule to be back to how it was normally.

Jon B.

I've had my daughter in the summer camp going into the fourth year. She really likes being there. I also like being a member of the gym and using the pool. What I like best is their all inclusive policy where, if you are human, you can join.

Timothy R.

If you truly cared about everyone’s safety you wouldn’t be letting anyone in the building, staff members should be accepting kids at the door and taking their temperature before they go in. The gym should be shut down until this is all over, it’s pretty clear the members can’t be trusted to sanitize anything.

No other daycare in the area is letting parents in and are screening kids at the door.

We as parents warned and emailed our concerns two weeks ago that we thought this would start happening.

We pulled our daughter immediately and switched child care providers. While no one can control covid JCC has failed to enact any real guidelines.

Glad that the new daycare at the YMCA is following PROPER guidelines and not showboating and hiding cases up until now.

Andy K, Andrea and the entire board should be ashamed of themselves.

Just by the way they handle this situation I would say steer clear of this place for daycare as they try to hide covid positive cases for a the past few months.

Em

When I was younger they had a program where they had a JCC after school program in the cafeteria. They would help out kids with work or do a project like a play or Lego's. Sometimes we did arts and crafts or even, my personal favorite, the school news letter. They even let us into the gym to run around or dress up. Or both. They did this until we were picked up. Now I just go to there pool every once in a while. It's sweet. Although I've always loved it. Ever since I was basically born I have loved anything to do with water. So yeah, I like it.

cathy M.

I paid for swimming lessons and it has been a terrible experience from the start. Lessons are a half hour long. Tuesday’s from 4:30 -5:00 pm. 1st lesson instructor was 10minutes late and finished 5 minutes early. 2nd lesson instructor didn’t show up at all so someone stepped in to do something in the pool with the kids. 3rd lesson girl came and was really unsure on what she really needed to do. 4th lesson I didn’t go my husband took him and now the rest of the parents are complaining also. Today the 5th lesson the girl that came to do lessons said she had never done a lesson and was unsure of what to do. This is not the young people fault that are being sent to do the classes. The person who is in charge should really refund everyone money because the kids really didn’t benefit from the lessons at all.

Kevin M.

Really Timothy Roberts? You're giving them a one star review JUST because of Covid? Listen sir, everyone's been hurt enough from this COVID situation. You want to hurt more? What do you get from that? I'm sure they're doing the best they can to provide the safest service right now. I understand where you are coming from, but if everyone had gotten their vaccines in the first place and take really good care of themselves, or sanitizing properly, the worst could be avoided.
Anyway, Jewish Community Center is a 5 Star Center from my experience. Great job, wonderful people. Keep up the good work and be safe! Thanks again

Christopher H.

Had sent my daughter here a few years ago and she would come home almost every other week with some virus due to the lack of cleanliness. I knew a worker that had confirmed this and left to be at a better facility.