Page 68 Friday, 21,2013 2020 52 The THEJewish JEWISHPress PRESS Friday, February November 1,
Community Currents Preschoolers in the Rambam Day School of Savannah, Georgia learn about the Aleph Bais and their names.
On Sunday, October 13, the Yeshiva of Central
Queens kicked off its Parent-Child Sunday LearnLong Island Coalition Travels to Albany ing Program.
local yeshivos.held its annual commemoration of RaEarlier this month, the Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation Soon a steering groupCenter formed last14. week, chel Imeinu’s yarzheit. A buffet dinner was held at the Manhattan Beach Jewish on and October The on February 11, overon20 representing the keynote speaker was Rabbi Jonathan Rietti who gave a dramatic presentation thepeople relationship between RachelLast Imeinu andRabbi the nal year, AriGeulah. Ginian, executive direc- many yeshivos headed to Albany to lobby legislator of Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island; Rabbi Eli Biegeleisen of Yeshiva Darchei Torah; and Rabbi Dovid Kramer of Yeshiva Of South Shore proposed traveling to Albany to advocate for the needs of the
Keynote Speaker Rabbi Jonathan Rietti and Evelyn Haies, founder and president of RCRF.
tors. Once there, they met with Assemblymembers Stacey Pheffer Amato, Daniel Rosenthal, Judy Griffin, Joe Lentil, Missy Miller, and David Weprin, and Sen-
ators Joe Adabbo, Todd Kaminsky, Simcha Felder, Senator James Sanders, Senator Anna Kaplan, and John Flannagan, among others. The main agenda items were security, bussing and the new state educational guidelines.
Rabbi Yechezkel Pikus, Chaim Deutsch, and Evelyn Haies.
More than 3,100 Lubavitch women, friends, and supporters gathered for the annual Kinos Hashluchos last weekend, which always takes place close to the Lubavitcher Rebbetzin’s yahrzeit on the 22nd of Shevat. The keynote speaker at Sunday night’s banquet was Dini Freundlich, co-director of Chabad of Beijing.
Irving Bienstock, a 93-year-old Charlotte resident and Holocaust survivor, fulfilled his dream of visiting an IDF military base earlier this month when he got a tour of the Yarden Camp in the Golan Heights. The visit was facilitated by Friends of the Israel Defense Forces and members of his local community.
Honorees pose behind the Jewish Mother’s Day cake donated by Pressers Bakery Avenue M. (L-R) Mark Langfan, Breaking the Silence Award; Rabbi Yechezkel Pikus, Rahel Imeinu Community Chessed Award; Evelyn Haies, Fran and Stephen Epstein Actualist Award; Esther Lamm, Young Leadership Award; and Mitchell Shapiro, esq., Rachel Imeinu Activist Award.
On October 2, Zicharon, an organization that assists people on issues relating to dementia, hosted an informative evening in Menorah Hall featuring renowned dementia experts who provided the audience with much-needed advice and information on dealing with this disease. Among the speakers were Rabbi Eliezer Kaminetzky; Dr. Gary Kennedy, chief of Geriatric Psychiatry at Monteore Medical Center; and Matt Kudish, senior vice president of caregiver services of the NY Chapter of the American Alzheimer’s Association.
To submit pictures At the United Nations Headquarters last month, Rabbi Mendy Mirocznik and Speaker Pro TempoIsabel Avomo Sima of the Equatorial Guinea Perre Jeffrion Aubry. manent Mission to the United Nations, remembered Earlier this month, Rabbi Mendy Mithe Holocaust alongside Rev. Dr. William Shillady rocznik, president of the Council of Jewish of City Society, Rabbi Joe Potasnik of the New York Organizations of Staten Island opened a New Board of Rabbis, and Don Victor Mooney of the R 1242 York State Assembly session with an invocaResilience Project. tion. His prayer focused on keeping all commuEquatorial Guinea just ended a two-year term on nities safe and standing together against hate, the United Nations Security Council as a non-permabigotry, anti-Semitism, and divisiveness. Matt Kudish nent member. (Photo credit: Zalman Umlas)
to the Community
Currents section, e-mail At the most recent meeting of the Rabbinical Alliance of America/Igud HaRabbonim, Rabbi Aron Glick, rav of the Kamenitz Bais Medrash and director of Sharey Ezer, spoke about making sure youth stay on the Torah path.
community@jewishpress.com.
Dr. Gary Kenneday