Every table was full during the Blintz Brunch at the Lawrence Jewish Community Center on Sunday morning. People navigated through the crowded space, buying baked goods and items from the gift shop before heading upstairs to the silent auction.

Those who were seated chatted and ate hot blintzes, which are thin pancakes stuffed with cheese or other fillings, similar to a crepe, and wrapped into a plump, oblong shape.

A line started to form late Sunday morning for entry into the 50th Annual Blintz Brunch, an event put on by the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Drive.

Attendees paid $8 for a ticket to the brunch. Jonathan Paretsky, president of the Jewish Community Congregation, said all profits from the brunch, silent auction, bake sale and gift shop would go to the center and its programs.

Paretsky’s parents were among the founders of the congregation and participated in the first Blintz Brunch 50 years ago.

“I suppose I was there, too, but I don’t remember it,” Paretsky said. “That was back when the building was much smaller and it was being crammed into one little room.”

In addition to raising funds for the center, the brunch is held to introduce Lawrence residents to the center and to the Jewish community. This was especially important 50 years ago, Paretsky said, when groups were more isolated.

“Now there’s a much better fellowship among the congregation and the gentiles in the community,” Paretsky said. “But it’s still an opportunity for everybody in Lawrence to come in and see what’s here. This building isn’t just used for Jewish services.”