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Vol. 99 No. 5
JANUARY 27 - FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Finding ways to help ‘friends’ Lawrence Woodmere Academy offers students a remote option was a surge after the new year,” Headmaster Brian O’Connell wrote in an email. “We are an In her kindergarindependent school ten class at Lawand are therefore rence Woodmere directly responsive Academy, Lindsay to the wants and Breslauer calls her needs of the families 10 students her we serve.” friends, and they Like other have made the word schools and dispart of their growtricts, LWA went ing vocabulary. Six fully remote when of Breslauer’s the coronavirus panfriends have been demic hit the area in out of the classroom March 2020. The since LWA returned teachers mastered from the holiday Google Classroom break on Jan. 3, and and Zoom, taught one, who had been virtually and then out since midused a hybrid model D e c e m b e r, j u s t as well, with stureturned on Monday. dents both in class With the surge in and at home. Covid-19 cases due to “Absolutely there the Omicron vari- BRIAN are challenges, but I ant, LWA, a private, o’coNNEll also think there are nonsectarian school positives,” said Brei n W o o d m e r e , Headmaster, slauer, a 2007 LWA of fered a remote Lawrence graduate who has option to its 165 stu- Woodmere Academy been teaching for six dents in pre-school years, four at her through high school. alma mater after two “LWA has been permitting years in New York City. Remote students to lear n remotely, learning, she said, “gives famiwhich was decided prior to the lies the option to continue the holiday break, based on prior year’s data indicating that there Continued on page 14
By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
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Courtesy Rachel Hersko
HAFTR MIddlE ScHool students and Rabbi Chaim Siff raised money for Chai Lifeline. In front, from left, were Judah Rauchwerger, Jacob Hersko and Yosef Haimoff. In back, from left, were Zachary Sternberg, Meir Zrihen, Siff, Jonah Gober and Mordechai Werzberger.
Running to help Jacob
Community raises $150,000 for Chai Lifeline By lISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com
A Cedarhurst family has joined forces with their community to form Team Jacob, in support of Jacob Hersko, a sixth-grader at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway Middle School who has
short bowel syndrome, a severe digestive disorder. Team members plan to raise money by running in the Miami Marathon on Feb. 6. Not long after he was born, Jacob, who’s now 11, was diagnosed with the condition, which necessitated the removal of 80 percent of his small intestine. He spent
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most of the first year of his life in the Cohen Children’s Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, where his mother, Rachel Hersko, connected with a liaison from the Manhattan-based Chai Lifeline, an international children’s health org anization that helps Continued on page 17
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