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Vol. 98 No. 43
october 21 - 27, 2021
85 years of NCJW service Peninsula chapter remains active despite pandemic’s challenges voter registration by hosting educational events and programs and through community The Lawrence-based chapter service. of a national Jewish women’s “The women that are involved organization is celebrating its are really passionate about what 85th anniversary of fighting for they do,” Joan Ivler, a past presisocial justice and aiming to dent of the NCJW Peninsula Secimprove the quality of life for all tion and a member for nearly 20 by protecting individual rights years, said. “They care about the and freedoms. world, they care The National about the communiCouncil of Jewish ty, they care locally, Women Peninsula they care internaSection was founded tionally.” on Oct. 7, 1936, by a Membership is g roup of women open to all, regardwith a goal to eduless of gender, race cate, advocate for or religion. Since its and help others. It inception, the Peninhas since grown to sula Section has nearly 800 members. made an impact. In It sprang from the the 1940s, it estabNational Council of l i s h e d t h e F ive J e w i s h Wo m e n , Towns Child Care which was founded JoAN IVler Center, a program a t t h e C h i c a g o Past president for children whose World’s Fair in 1893 mothers entered the by Hannah Solomon World War II work and a group of volunteers. The force, and the Ship-a-Box proNCJW now has 60 sections gram, which supplied children nationwide. in Europe and Israel with toys, Inspired by Jewish values, the books and educational material. sections advocate for women, The Peninsula Section Thrift children and families and raise Shop, which, according to its awareness of issues such as vio- website, “has provided hundreds lence prevention, human trafficking, reproductive rights and Continued on page 17
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Hawks prepare to take flight Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School boys’ varsity prepped for its Metropolitan Yeshiva High School Athletic League basketball season with a home scrimmage against Salanter Akina Riverdale Academy on Oct. 9. Hawks senior guard Eitan Saffra looked to pass.
Pair documents entrepreneurs by JeFFreY beSSeN jbessen@liherald.com
A husband-and-wife team who live in Woodsburgh and own a business in Lynbrook spearheaded the production of a new documentary series that will have its New York premiere, and an accompanying panel discussion, on Sunday at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. Nan and Harold Klein, 65 and 66, started TeleTime Video Production in 1976, when both were
attending Brooklyn College. “There was no such thing as video,” Harold recalled, and Nan added, “Not even VHS” — the video home systems that became ubiquitous in households in the 1980s. The documentary series “Trauma to Triumph – The Rise of the Entrepreneur” has two episodes completed, and next month they will be broadcast on PBS’s World channel. The series focuses on people who have faced difficult circumstances and then succeeded as
entrepreneurs. “We did a lot of work with entrepreneurial community,” said Harold Klein, recalling TeleTime’s first use of video in stores, which helped them show their merchandise continuously in their front windows, which led to more work for TeleTme in malls and store chains, then corporate work with the founder of Inc. magazine, Bernie Goldhirsch. TeleTime produced 100 educational videos on entrepreneurship for Inc., which Continued on page 18
he women that are involved are really passionate about what they do.