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Science and Torah

Adolph Schreiber Hebrew Academy of Rockland hadled secine exhibition stressing the ways that Torah and science can co-exist. All studnest in the preschool through eighth grade academy participated, submitting a variety of projects from dissecting a pic and comparing its digestive system to that of a cow, which is kosher, to how minute amounts of water can sustain desert plants, corresponding with the Jews' 40-year wandering in the wildnerness.

Seventh-graders Daniel Gordon, l, and Avi Pincus explain their project at the ASHAR school's "Torah and Science Fair" on June 2 in Monsey.
Sixth-graders Tamar Milner, l, and Talia Chasen's project focused on phases of the moon, corresponding with the centrality of the lunar calendar to Jewish practice.
The rhythm of reading

Reuben Gittelman Hebrew Day School's Danielle Hymowitz Reading Center hosted author and illustrator Doug Florian.  Children from grades K-8 met Florian in small groups read his humorous poems.

Florian, author of more than 30 children’s books including “Bing Bang Boing” and  “Beast Feast,” discussed the creative process, the use of the imagination and the importance of reading, writing and drawing. Students wanted to know how the author gets his ideas, how to get published and how to draw such great pictures. “Practice, practice, practice,” said Florian. “Even during the summer!”

Florian appeared at RGHDS as part of the Living Literacy program developed in conjunction with reading center, which was established in memory of student Danielle Hymowitz.
From left, Nikki and Karen Hymowitz, author Doug Florian, Steve and Lexi Hymowitz 
 
Doug Florian describes the use of rhythm in poetry as fourth grader Skyler Ostrofsky listens for the beat.
Tee time

The Jewish Federation's fifth annual Longest Day of Golf allowed six golfers to play from dawn til dusk, raising money for Federation programming in Rockland, Israel and around the globe.

Glenn Becker, Phil Gruber, Scott Hazan, Howard Shapiro and Bob Silverman joined Longest Day chairman Ron Hoffner on the green at Dellwood Country Club in New City for the day. Silverman, a former Federation president, played 81 holes, a record in the five year's of holding the event.
Phil Gruber
Federation golfers, from left, Scott Hazan, Phil Gruber, Glenn Becker, Bob Silverman, event chairman Ron Hoffner and Howard Shapiro
Bob Silverman is ready to go.

Breaking ground for the future


More than 150 people were on hand for Congregation Sons of Israel's groundbreaking festivities on June 6. For four hours, congregants and members of the community celebrated the 120-year-old Upper Nyack synagogue's move to begin construction on a new educational wing.
So far $1.2 million has been raised for the project that will add Hebrew school classrooms, expand and modernize the kitchen and social hall and renovate other parts of the building.
Live music, refreshments, a bounce house and activities with Grace Circus kept the kids busy during the four-hour festivities. "It was very much focused on our future, and the kids," said Nina Iser, president of the synagogue.
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From left: Rabbi Joshua Gruenberg, Peter Lang, co-chair of CSI's campital campaign, holdign daughter Zoe, Federation President Carol Blau, synagogue President Nina Iser, Leonard Birbower, co-chair of the campaign, and Steve Iser, co-chair of the construction committee; in front: Sam Gruenberg, left
Sometimes synagogue needs can be a balancing act!
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Dedicating a Torah

Michael and Ella Tseytin of Saddle River, N.J. donated a new Torah scroll to Chabad JEC in Chestnut Ridge. The Torah completion and dedication ceremony took place on Monday, May 17, the evening before Shavuot.
 
The new Torah was dedicated by the Tseytin family in memory of Ella's father, Yakov Shtivelman, of blessed memory. “We wanted to give it to a shul that didn’t own its own Torah. Growing up in the Former Soviet Union, we could only dream of such an opportunity.”

All participants, in this community Simcha, had the opportunity to have a letter written in the new Torah with the scribe on behalf of their family. There was music, dancing, light dinner and lots of joy and L'Chaim.
 
The new Torah was read from for the first time on Shavuot, the day we received the Torah, 3,322 years ago, including the reading of the Ten Commandments.

“We actually received the Torah from anew this year, quite literally”, said Rabbi Chaim Zvi Ehrenreich, the director of Chabad JEC. “We are grateful to the Tseytin family for this eternal gift”.

Rabbi Naftali Friedman, certified scribe, inscribes a letter in the new Torah on behalf of Adina Tseytin, as Rabbi Chaim Zvi Ehrenreich and Ella Tseytin - Torah Patron observe

Dancing with the new Torah at Chabad JEC - Chestnut Ridge. From L-R: Michael Tseytin - The Torah Patron, Rabbi Chaim Zvi Ehrenreich, Daniel Tseytin