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Vol. 26 No. 22
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MAY 25 - 31, 2023
Learning how to ‘Stop the Bleed’
Artists are among ‘L.I.’s best’
Sydney Brewer coordinates life-saving leadership project
By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com
Three student artists at John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore had their artwork chosen to be displayed at the Heckscher Museum’s Long Island’s Best exhibition, held annually in Huntington. Danielle Berkowitz, Dylan Friedman and Minami Rodger all created artwork inspired by a different piece of art they had viewed in the museum, Cheryl Fontana, the district’s director of fine & performing arts, explained in a release to the Herald. Josh Gilmore, a student f r o m We l l i n g t o n C . Mepham High School in Bellmore, also had a piece selected for the display. Long Island’s Best: Young Artists at The Heckscher Museum is the only judged exhibition on Long Island that accepts high school art submissions. Some 91 pieces were selected this year from over 500 submissions. The show opened in April and will close on June 4. The entire exhibition is available online at Heckscher.org/LIBest2023.
‘Sunday at the Market’
Senior Danielle Berkowitz’s photograph “Sunday at the Market” was inspired by the work of Susan Kozodoy Silkowitz, a New York City street photographer. Berkowitz, 18, of Merrick, decided to take photography at KenContinued on page 7
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School shooting survivors, was inspired to purchase the kits as a result of the mass murder of For the last several months, 26 students and staff in NewSydney Brewer, a junior at John town, Conn. in 2012, when she F. Kennedy High School in Bell- was in the first grade. more, has been working hard to Brewer had joined Kenneprotect her fellow students. The dy’s Leadership Program, a 17-year-old has raised $3,000 to three-year course designed to purchase 60 “Stop create young leaders the Bleed” kits, in the community. which could help As a junior, she’s save someone’s life enrolled in Leaderin an emergency. ship II, the proI n F e b r u a r y, g ram’s second Brewer, who lives in course, where she Merrick, had was tasked with expressed hope that planning and carrydoctors from Northing out a civics projwell Health would DR. MAtthEw ect that would give visit the high school her a voice in school sometime during BANk or community the spring to demon- Director, Northwell issues. strate for students Health Trauma The aim of her and staff how to use project was to Institute the items in the kit, ensure that every which includes a classroom has tourniquet, gauze and trauma access to a Stop the Bleed kit. sheers. “These kits have essential On May 12 and 19, that goal things in them — like a tournibecame a reality, as instructors quet, gauze, trauma sheers — from Northwell Health arrived that if, God forbid, there’s ever at Kennedy to teach students any type of emergency, somehow to apply tourniquets, pack one can be saved,” Brewer said. wounds and stop critical bleedDr. Matthew Bank, director ing on medical dummies. of the Northwell Health TrauBrewer, who is the same age as the Sandy Hook Elementary Continued on page 18
By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com
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SENioR RABBi JoShuA Dorsch, center, was officially installed at the Merrick Jewish Centre last Saturday. He was joined by members of his family, from left, Deborah-Jo Essrog; Jay Dorsch; his wife, Stef Dorsch; and Sandi and Asher Millman.
New leader, new era at Merrick Jewish Centre By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com
Though Senior Rabbi Joshua Dorsch began his journey as the spiritual leader of the Merrick Jewish Centre last summer, he was officially installed last Saturday in a ceremony full of love, laughter, memories and hope at the synagogue. His arrival signaled the end of an era for the MJC, after Rabbi Emeritus Charles A. Klein retired in October 2021, after 43 years at the temple — in which Klein was credited for redefining the religious, social and cultural dynamics of the Jewish community in MerrickBellmore. The center’s sanctuary, and
street, were renamed in Klein’s honor. The ceremony explored the synagogue’s past and present, and was well attended by dozens of congregants, Klein, Dorsch’s family members and friends, former Assistant Rabbi Ravid Tilles, and local elected leaders, who have had long partnerships with the temple. Dorsch, 37, completed extensive schooling at the Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies at Columbia University, and Columbia itself, before attending the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He first worked at the Beth El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle, where he met his wife, StephaContinued on page 4
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