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Thriving with volunteers Gural JCC helped 5T community through the Covid-19 pandemic Services Manager Laurie Stone Brofsky wrote in an email, and some of the usual volunteer Despite the obstacles that opportunities transitioned to came with the coronavirus pan- virtual programs, while others demic, the Marion & Aaron were either put on hold or grew Gural JCC has continued to into new opportunities. serve Five Towns and Far RockaLynbrook resident Miriam way residents Feffer, 68, was happy thanks to its dedicatto continue voluned volunteers. teering during the The JCC, based in pandemic, she said, Cedarhurst, has a though her husband variety of volunteer and son were hesiprograms that offer tant about letting community memher leave the house. bers educational, “It was a decision I enrichment, recremade at that point — ational and social you know, when you services. They think about it, was it include support and the right decision?” wellness groups for Feffer said. “I don’t at-risk communities lAURIE SToNE know.” as well as the SHOP BRoFSkY A for mer New — Sustenance, Hope, Volunteer Services York City special Opportunities Place education teacher, — a food pantry and Manager, JCC Feffer started volunsocial services hub. teering at the JCC In a typical year, before Covid, after retiring six years ago. “I all volunteer activities took place have to tell you, when I retired, it in person, and the JCC had near- was like, I don’t know what to do ly 700 volunteers — many of with myself,” she said, “and I them regulars, active weekly or was always looking for things to monthly, and others who were do. So I was very happy to volundrop-ins, taking part in special teer.” She heard of the opportuprograms and events. nity through a friend who was During the pandemic, “volun- already active with the JCC. teer numbers dipped,” Volunteer Continued on page 20
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HAFTR HIGH SCHool students held yahrzeit candles to light the way in the darkened hallways before the Holocaust Remembrance Day assembly.
Remembering the Holocaust HAFTR High School creates historical memories through ‘Lasting Legacies’ By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
The hallways at Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School were darkened on the morning of April 28. The only light emanated from yahrzeit candles held by students as they stood outside classrooms. At 9:20 a.m., a siren sounded — as sirens had sounded earlier that day in Israel. Administrators, students and teachers moved with purpose to the HAFTR auditori-
um, for the Holocaust Remembrance Day assembly. Yahrzeit candles are used to remember those who died. Yom HaShoah is held in Israel and the United States not only to remember the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany, but also to commemorate the 30-day Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943. Though it was crushed by the Nazis, it is remembered as the largest revolt by Jews during World War II. “This is our first school-wide assembly in Continued on page 21
olunteering ‘gives community members the opportunities to do chesed.’