By Michael Orbach
Issue of May 1, 2009 / 7 Iyar 5769
Agudath Israel of America acknowledged a possible conflict of interest but will oppose legislation to allow victims of child sexual abuse currently beyond the statute of limitations to bring their cases to court. Read the rest of this entry »
By Mitch Krevat
Issue of May 1, 2009 / 7 Iyar 5769
The weekend before Pesach, as Jews scurried around the Five Towns preparing for their annual Passover exodus to points around the globe or completing their home makeovers, my friend was also preparing. His travel plans were simple. Read the rest of this entry »
By David Seidemann
Issue of May 1, 2009 / 7 Iyar 5769
In a few hours, the Boeing 767-200 would touch down at JFK as I eagerly awaited my level bed and leavened bread. Don’t get me wrong — this was one of the most enjoyable Passovers in at least a year. Read the rest of this entry »
By Dr. Rafael Medoff
Issue of May 1, 2009 / 7Iyar 5769
His neighbors don’t know it, but on the quiet, palm tree-lined streets of Port Saint Lucie, the Mets spring training headquarters on the South Florida coast, lives an unsung hero of the fight for Israeli independence. Read the rest of this entry »
By Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of May 1, 2009 / 7 Iyar 5769
There is almost never a day when the State of Israel does not draw some attention somewhere in the world. This has become the norm. Yet, not so long ago, Read the rest of this entry »
By Rabbi Avi Billet
Issue of May 1, 2009/ 7 Iyar 5769
Over the course of one week, Jews around the world commemorate Read the rest of this entry »
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To the Editor:
I must say I disagree with your editorial re: the Vaad (Change needed at Vaad HaKashrus; April 24, 2009). Rabbi Yosef Eisen has done a Read the rest of this entry »
May 1, 2009 / 7 Iyar 5769
Dear That’s Life,
Night and Day:
A recent article in the New York Times Magazine recounted the abuse one Washington Post columnist consistently takes on the paper’s web site Read the rest of this entry »
Issue of May 1, 2009 / 7 Iyar 5769
Michelle Feintuch & Shimmy Klein
Engagements
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Lawrence - Kulanu’s Keren Eliana Parent Advocacy and Resource Center (P.A.R.C.) is sponsoring Read the rest of this entry »
Shua Brick of West Hempstead (far left) traveled to Israel with nine fellow MTA sophomores as part of a unique student exchange program.
By Yaffi Spodek
May 1, 2009 / 7 Iyar 5769
A select group of MTA students visited Israel for two months this year as part of the inaugural Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHSB)-Makor Read the rest of this entry »
By Malka Eisenberg
Issue of May 1, 2009 / 7 Iyar 5769
If you haven’t had the flu vaccine yet this year, don’t bother on account of the Swine flu.
“It’s too late to get the vaccine for the flu and the current vaccine would not give any benefit against Swine flu,” said Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt, a spokesman for the Infectious Diseases Society of America and president and CEO of New Island Hospital in Bethpage, LI..
“The good news is that it’s very sensitive to the treatments that work against it. The regular influenza that came out was resistant to Tamiflu; this is not resistant to Tamiflu and there is enough available.”
Symptoms are standard for flu: fever, fatigue, aches, cough, sore throat, chills, runny nose, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
Precautions include avoiding areas and those infected, covering one’s mouth and nose when coughing and sneezing, discarding used tissues, washing hands thoroughly or properly using hand sanitizers, Read the rest of this entry »
By Rachel Blady
Issue of May 1, 2009 / 7 Iyar 5769
I knew three things when I departed for Poland. I knew that all four of my
March of the Living participants walk along railroad tracks inside Birkenau death camp in Oswiecem, Poland. (Photo by Yossi Selinger)
grandparents are Holocaust survivors. I knew that I knew barely anything at all. And I knew that I wanted to know everything.
It is difficult to describe the feeling of knowing how important something is, but not absorbing the power of it. Arriving in Poland Read the rest of this entry »
By Yaffi Spodek
Issue of May 1, 2009 / 7 Iyar 5769
IDF Colonel Bentzi Gruber spoke about the "purity of arms" practiced by Israel's military in a Yom HaZikaron presentation at HAFTR High School. (Photo by Zali Ritholz)
Wednesday, April 29, marked Israel’s 61st birthday, and local yeshiva high schools were busy planning meaningful programs in anticipation of the occasion, and its more somber lead-in, Yom HaZikaron, commemorated a day earlier on Tuesday.
At Machon HaTorah, “Yom Hazikaron is commemorated every day,” Read the rest of this entry »
By Michael Orbach
Posted online April 26, 2009 / 2 Iyar 5769
The Jewish social service organization Ohel is denying that it will oppose legislation that would allow victims of childhood sexual abuse currently beyond the statute of limitations to bring their cases to court. Agudath Israel of America and Torah Umesorah, its affiliated educational arm have announced their opposition to the open-window provision under consideration in Albany.
Ohel’s decision to oppose the legislation was described to The Jewish Star by two reliable and well-informed sources.
When contacted for comment, CEO David Mandel declined to confirm, telling a reporter, “It is simply not a matter of a yes or no issue of supporting Read the rest of this entry »
By Yaffi Spodek
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
Several HAFTR students joined a small crowd of activists at Dag Hammerskjold Plaza Monday afternoon to protest the United Nations’ failure to address human rights abuses.
“The purpose of the demonstration was to protest the silence of the UN regarding human rights violations around the world and the UN’s continued demonization of Israel,” explained Avi Posnick of StandWithUs, an Israel advocacy organization which planned the rally together with Read the rest of this entry »
By Michael Orbach
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau
The race is on to succeed Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, and the winner will be lucky to hold the job for a fraction of the time that Morgenthau has been in office. He was first elected in 1974.
Attorney Ben Brafman, who worked for Morgenthau for four years beginning in 1976, recently reflected on his old boss who decided to not seek a tenth term. Read the rest of this entry »
Sunrise on Erev Pesach as seen from Agudas Yisroel of Long Island (top), one of many places were local residents observed the mitzvah of Bircat HaChama, including Cedarhurst Park, where hundreds gathered. (Photo by Rabbi Avrohom Liss)
By Baruch Spier
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
At the Kotel, at a shtiebel in Tiberias, and on a balcony at Jerusalem’s Inbal Hotel, a short blessing created lasting memories.
“Quite truthfully, this one stands out,” said David Schreiber, describing his third Bircat HaChama experience.
On Erev Pesach, Schreiber and others from Long Island joined Jews all over Israel Read the rest of this entry »
By Jewish Star Staff
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
Boy Scout David Rosen of Troop 613 (in uniform) at the Young Israel of West Hempstead led a renovation of part of a nature trail at the Tanglewood
Boy Scout David Rosen of Troop 613 (in uniform) supervising his Eagle Scout project at the Tanglewood Preserve.
Preserve this past Sunday. He took on the project to earn his Eagle Scout designation, the first member of his troop to do so.
Local businesses that contributed goods and services included Read the rest of this entry »
By Yaffi Spodek
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
The Rock it Ropers of Woodmere, the only Shomer Shabbos jump rope team in the country, will advance to the national rounds of the USA Jump Rope (USAJR) tournament in Galveston, Texas in June.
The results of the regional qualifying tournament Read the rest of this entry »
By Yaffi Spodek
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
The season of long Shabbat afternoons is upon us. Though the weekly time warp can be draining both for children and the adults who must entertain them, a fun, interactive game to play with friends is a productive way to combat the boredom. Read the rest of this entry »
By Dr. Michael J. Salamon
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
There is a story told about the horses that pulled the wagon of the Baal Shem Tov, the individual credited as the founder of Chassidus of the 18th century. Read the rest of this entry »
By Miriam Bradman Abrahams
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
Visiting Israel is going home for many of us. It’s really a second home, a place we look forward to being and feeling comfortable. We tend to revisit
The author enjoys the rich culture of Tel Aviv during a recent trip to Israel. (Photo by Rafi Abraham)
sights we enjoy, spend time with family and take in the unique atmosphere. On a recent week-long trip to visit my son in Israel, I stayed at my friend’s apartment in Tel Aviv, which is celebrating its centennial this month. Read the rest of this entry »
Zev Wolff sporting a wide grin in a recent photo. (Photo courtesy www.rabenko.com)
By Helen and Ranan Wolff
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
How lucky we are to be living in the Five Towns. When our son Zev was stricken with a childhood cancer called neuroblastoma, we asked for your help in raising $3 million. The goal was to create a cure for our son Read the rest of this entry »
Reviewed by Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
“Honor your mother and father.”
This commandment from G-d is given to us as a Divine mandate for all time. Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, the author of the book under review, delivers a heartfelt tribute to his martyred father and mother Read the rest of this entry »
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
To the Editor:
I have been eating Streit’s Matzo for more than 50 years only to find, as I did my last minute shopping, that Streit’s had been pulled from the shelves by the Vaads HaKashrus of Queens and the Five Towns. Read the rest of this entry »
By Rabbi Avi Billet
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
In Vayikra 13:33 and 14:8-9 we see instances of how people on the road to reassuming a status of “taharah” –– readiness to participate in holy activities Read the rest of this entry »
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Manhattan – The Orthodox Union Job Board is hosting a Jewish Community Services Expo on Sunday, April 26. Whether you are gainfully employed Read the rest of this entry »
Borders Express on Central Ave. is pictured on Monday, April 20, 2009. The store is set to close on April 25. (Photo by Claudio Papapietro)
By Michael Orbach
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
The Borders bookstore on Central Ave. survived two wars, three financial crises, and five U.S. presidents, but after 31 years it is closing its doors.
The store opened in 1978 as Walden Books, a subsidiary of K-Mart. It became Reader’s Market, then Walden Books again until it was bought out by Borders. For most residents of the Five Towns, the bookstore was a rarity: a chain-store that managed nonetheless to become an integral part of the neighborhood Read the rest of this entry »
Dear That’s Life,
You can take the girl out of the Five Towns…
As we sat at the beautiful Dead Sea over Chol HaMoed Read the rest of this entry »
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Michelle Davidoff & Lior Gabay
Engagements
Kostia and Aliza Feldman
Chaim Yitzchack and Chana Menucha to Yocheved & Eli Guterman
Baruch Binyamin Freund
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
It would be a big problem if a portion of an observant Jewish community were to lose faith in, say, kosher food supervision and became less careful about kashruth as a result.
Yet, that’s the kind of risk the Vaad HaKashrus of The Five Towns and Far Rockaway apparently decided to run when, with a month to Pesach, stores under its supervision were directed to turn away matzo and matzo products made by the iconic Streit’s company.
There was no new or otherwise urgent information about Streit’s kashruth or any belief that the fitness of its products for Passover was in any way compromised. In fact, the Vaad said that Streit’s products could be used on Passover and there was no need to return or replace items Read the rest of this entry »
By David Seidemann
Issue of April 10, 2009 / 16 Nissan 5769
I’m standing in line at my third favorite supermarket and a fellow approaches me.
“I read your article about the ‘fifth son’ –– you know the one who was absent from the Seder? Well, that’s not the problem my wife and I have. You see, all of our kids are at the Seder but we only get nachas from one of them.” Read the rest of this entry »
By Yaffi Spodek
Issue of April 10, 2009 / 16 Nissan 5769
The auto industry’s economic woes are well known but local car dealers and leasing outfits are also feeling the pain, reporting significant losses. Many of their best customers have downshifted into cheaper cars. Read the rest of this entry »
By Joshua Davidson
Issue of April 10, 2009 / 16 Nissan 5769
When my grandfather arrived at Ellis Island, Davidovich became Davidson on the spot, Chatche became Harry, and Grandpa became an American. Hearing that a city called Detroit needed workers so badly that they were paying $5 per day, he traveled to toil at the Ford’s factory. Read the rest of this entry »
By Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of April 10, 2009 / 16 Nissan 5769
With the Pesach holiday now in full swing, the classical Jewish “bridge of time,” the Omer season, is upon us. Read the rest of this entry »
In My ViewAn excerpt of a message to the administrators and parent body of the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County from the boys’ varsity basketball coach after the team’s recent championship win.
By Elliot Steinmetz
Issue of April 10, 2009 / 16 Nissan 5769
Now that I have had an opportunity to gather my thoughts, I am sitting down to write my annual post-season letter. Read the rest of this entry »
By Rabbi Avi Billet
Issue of April 10, 2009 / 16 Nissan 5769
Everyone knows the song: “Dai dai yay-nu, dai dai yay-nu…”
As much as we get into it, what is the meaning of this poem that suggests that had each stage of the exodus journey taken place without leading to its follow-through, it “would have been enough?” Read the rest of this entry »
Issue of April 10, 2009 / 16 Nissan 5769
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So says Newton’s third law of motion, axiomatic to our understanding of the physical world.
Unfortunately, our understanding of the physical world and of reality doesn’t always seem to accurately translate Read the rest of this entry »
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Dear That’s Life,
Last week, one of my daughters asked me if her room was clean for Pesach. Read the rest of this entry »
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To The Editor:
I read Miriam Wallach’s That’s Life column in the April 3 issue of the Jewish press with mounting trepidation. Read the rest of this entry »
Batsheva Katz gathered with other Tomchei Shabbos-Yad Yeshaya volunteers on Sunday to organize and deliver Pesach packages to 250 local families (Photo courtesy thefivetowns.com)
Jaclyn Yael Schein
By Yaffi Spodek
Issue of April 10, 2009 16 Nissan 5769
HAFTR senior Jaclyn Yael Schein recently won first place at the New York State Science and Engineering Fair. As an Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Finalist, she will travel to Reno, Nevada from May 10-16 to compete in a week-long international science competition.
Schein, 17, of Woodmere, aspires to pursue a career in scientific research. In the fall, she will attend MIT, where she plans to study materials science and biological engineering.
Her winning project, Read the rest of this entry »
Early on the most hectic day in the Jewish calendar -- erev Pesach -- a crowd gathered in Cedarhurst Park for a once-in-28-years opportunity to say a blessing on the sun (photo by Esther Stern/Courtesy of www.thefivetowns.com)
28-year cycle observed by hundreds in Cedarhurst Park
By Michael Orbach
Special to thejewishstar.com / Posted April 13, 2009
For a few anxious minutes it seemed that the sun did not want to be blessed but then the clouds parted.
According to tradition the sun returns to the place it occupied at the time of creation once every 28 years. 2009 was the year and April 8 was the day. Several hundred people gathered in Cedarhurst Park on the Wednesday morning of Erev Pesach Read the rest of this entry »
The decision, the fallout and the regretsBy Mayer Fertig
EXCLUSIVE to The Jewish Star / Issue of April 10, 2009 / 16 Nissan 5769
Every conversation with a kashruth professional about Streit’s Matzo –– on the record or off –– eventually winds up in the same place: no one wants to be disrespectful to the memory of Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik zt”l whose name was on the Streit’s box from the mid-50s until his death in 2001 — or to hurt his son, Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik, who gives the hashgacha (kosher certification) today — by publicly raising a concern that the quality of supervision at Streit’s has slipped in recent years.
Yet, less than a month before Pesach, the Vaad HaRabbonim of Queens decided to remove Streit’s Matzo and matzo products from its list of approved products. Read the rest of this entry »
By Michael Orbach
April 3, 2009 — Web Exclusive
Proposed child abuse legislation that had been left for dead got an unusual new lease on life this week when it passed a New York State Assembly committee after first being soundly defeated.
The bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn), would extend the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse for civil cases by two years. A redrafted version of the bill passed the Codes Committee on Tuesday by a margin of 18-1. The bill will now be voted on in the full Assembly, before making its way to the State Senate.
Sexual abuse activists have criticized the Lopez bill saying that it would help sexual predators. They claim it is meant to detract attention from the Child Victims Act, stronger legislation sponsored by Assemblywoman Marge Markey (D-Queens), which would extend the civil and criminal statutes Read the rest of this entry »
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
In The Jewish Star last week, two front-page items — a news article and an opinion essay — dealt with the difficult and sensitive subject of child sexual abuse. Read the rest of this entry »
By Michael Orbach
Issue April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
The No. Six school in Woodmere will close in June.
The announcement was made March 23 at a meeting of the Lawrence school board. The reasoning behind the decision was not publicly discussed at the meeting, which was punctuated by bitter comments from members of the public.
Superintendent John Fitzsimons noted that the board was faced with a choice between closing the No. Four school, the No. Five, or the No. Six.
“We made it clear that no matter what decision they would make, we could make it work educationally,” Fitzsimons explained in a telephone interview. “If were so easy, that one [school] far outweighed the other, there wouldn’t be options.”
Dwindling enrollment in the Lawrence school system, decreasing more than two percent annually, prompted the decision.
“In light of what’s happening to us economically Read the rest of this entry »
By Mayer Fertig
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
Parents at Shulamith School for Girls are being asked to sign a proposal supporting the sale of the school’s Flatbush campus to buy a new facility in Inwood for Bnot Shulamith. The school is negotiating to lease a school building near the current Brooklyn campus, according to an accompanying letter signed by school president Sam Gross.
Administrators and teachers have toured the space on East 21st Street between Avenues K and L, “and determined that it is adequate to house Shulamith’s student body,” the letter said.
In an apparent show of confidence in the proposed location, Gross said that parents would be contacted to schedule similar tours “to satisfy the parent body that, with this available space, all is in order, and Shulamith is staying in Brooklyn.”
The text of the proposal begins by stating that an audit by an independent accounting firm determined “that the Brooklyn campus has been losing significant amounts of money Read the rest of this entry »
By Stephen M. Flatow
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
There is no denying that anti-Semitism has been making a comeback in the past few years. But it’s not the old fashioned anti-Semitism of the Klan or the “dirty Jew” or Christ killer epithet that I had thrown at me in the 1950s. Read the rest of this entry »
Parnasa Fest in Woodmere
By Yaffi Spodek
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
Over 100 people attended a networking event sponsored by Parnasa Fest at the Young Israel of Woodmere on March 25. Read the rest of this entry »
By Michael Fragin
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In state government jargon, the final deal between the powers that be in Albany, the one that sets the state budget is called “the big ugly.” Read the rest of this entry »
By Rabbi Avi Shafran
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
One day during my teenage years I began to think about what my father, may he be well, had been doing at my age. Read the rest of this entry »
Reviewed by Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
Our rabbis are sermonizing about an event that’s soon to happen, an event that is celebrated once every 28 years. This event is the blessing of the sun, to mark its place in the heavens as it was on the day of its creation. Read the rest of this entry »
Reviewed by Mayer Fertig
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
Who said Americans aren’t multilingual? They must never have met Murray Spiegel and Rickey Stein, authors of “300 Ways to Ask the Four Questions, from Zulu to Abkhaz.” Read the rest of this entry »
By Adam Neustadter
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
Sometimes, being in the wine business offers great perks. One of them is getting to taste wines before anyone else does.
This theory works well when the wine is good. On the other hand, when it’s not, you just want to go into the vinegar business. Read the rest of this entry »
By Eileen Goltz
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
I do not typically subscribe to the eating of pre-packaged, ready made snack foods. Especially not during Pesach. Read the rest of this entry »
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Dear That’s Life,
In these hard times in which we find ourselves, people are cutting back on luxuries on which they had spent money in the past, in order to save or to afford necessities. Read the rest of this entry »
By Mayer Fertig
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
Kenny Gluck (left) and business partner Mike Fine plan to bring clean, professional comedy to the Five Towns. (Photo courtesy Kenny Gluck)
These days we could all use a good laugh. Happily, good, clean laughs are coming to Central Avenue.
“Kenny Gluck presents Kosher Komedy at Tea for Two” debuts Motza’ei Shabbat, April 4. Read the rest of this entry »
Photo courtesy Marc Bruh
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
The yeshiva league’s varsity hockey championship was a local affair between HAFTR and DRS. HAFTR (above), coached by Marc Bruh, won it 2-1. Read the rest of this entry »
Dr. Andrew Sicklick speaking to fellow smicha recipients at their graduation dinner in Israel (Photo courtesy Andrew Sicklick)
By Malka Eisenberg
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
Local professionals in dentistry, medicine, accounting and business have received smicha (rabbinic ordination) over the last few years through an intensive online learning program. Read the rest of this entry »
By Yaffi Spodek
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
Rabbi Shalom Rosner
Rabbi Shalom Rosner returned to his roots this week, visiting the Five Towns to reflect on his first seven months of living in Israel. Read the rest of this entry »
By Yaffi Spodek
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice with educators and student leaders at the Young Israel of Woodmere for the Model Congress program. (Photo by Andrew Vardakis)
It was 10:30 a.m. and the first item on the agenda was a bill to advance government intelligence. The proposal would grant sole authorization to the National Security Agency to use electronic surveillance and obtain access to business records of suspect persons. Read the rest of this entry »
By Rabbi Avi Billet
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
Ask anyone, “What are the commandments one fulfills on the night of the seder?” Read the rest of this entry »
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
To the Editor:
OHEL tells us, via David Mandel in, “Reporting Sexual Abuse” (March 27, 2009), that it supports legislation to “extend the statute of limitations on reporting sexual abuse until the victim survivor is 28 years old.” Read the rest of this entry »
By David Seidemann
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
If each book of the five books of Moses was a movie in and of itself, and if Hollywood movie reviewers would review them, the acclaimed critics would most likely offer the following reviews. Read the rest of this entry »
By Yaffi Spodek
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
Alan Kestenbaum, CEO of Marco International Corp., a finance trading group specializing in raw materials, was recently elected to to the board of directors of Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business. Read the rest of this entry »
Shaina Safer, a student at Kulanu, proudly displays her New York State Home Health Aide Certificate. The certificate was presented to Shaina by Julia M. Blair RN, MA Director of the JMB Home Health Services Training School on March 27.
As part of Shaina’‘s Vocational/Career Program, she was registered for and transported to and from her classes at the JMB Home Health Services Training School by Kulanu.
Under the supervision of Kulanu Job Coach Lauren Koicim, Shaina independently attended classes at the JMB Home Health Services Training School and successfully completed the course of study leading to her NYS Home Health Aide Certification.
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Third graders at Solomon Schechter Day School of Nassau County recreated the story of “The Sun’s Special Blessing” with author Sandy Wasserman by making their own time capsules, which will be buried after the recitation of Bircat HaChama. (Photo courtesy Sandy Wasserman)
By Yaffi Spodek
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
Chabad of Mineola is preparing to celebrate the mitzvah of Bircat HaChama on April 8 by burying a time capsule to be opened 28 years from now in 2037, the next time the blessing on the sun will be recited.
“It’s good to think about what you have today and appreciate it and write it down,” said Rabbi Anchelle Perl Read the rest of this entry »
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