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$1M grant aids Sunrise Association president and CEO of the Sunrise Association. “It led to a real sense of belonging and being a Though the coronavirus has part of the camp community at brought with it many challenges, such a difficult time.” the Sunrise Association has conAt the height of the pandemtinued to provide joy to children ic, association administrators with cancer, and with a $1 mil- began adapting their programs lion grant recently secured, it to a virtual world. The effort will be able to carry on its mis- included Sunrise on Screens, sion in the future. which brought virtual content The Frances Davis Fund into homes and hospitals; Sunoffered the grant, rise on Wheels and it will be used Craft Bags & Surto build new stuprises from Sundios at the Sunrise rise, for which artsAssociation’s and-crafts kits and Oceanside headgift packages were quarters to help shipped to hospiexpand its virtual tals; Support From o f f e r i n g s, eve n Sunrise, an inforafter the pandemic mation and referends. The associaral service to help tion hosts eight families; and the summer day camps RiChaRd RoSS Sunrise Vir tual around the world Donor adviser for the Camp Experience, and 43 weekly infor which 1,750 Frances Davis Fund hospital programs children enrolled for ailing children, over the summer in addition to other year-round from Long Island, Staten Island, programming. Its members have Pearl River, Baltimore, Atlanta worked with more than 16,000 and Israel. families since its first camp The Sunrise Association will opened on Long Island in 2006. use the grant to build the Doro“We had a really great sum- thy and Irving Ross Sunrise Stumer, and the kids were tremen- dios. Richard Ross, the president dously responsive to what we started,” said Arnie Preminger, Continued on page 11
By MikE SMolliNS msmollins@liherald.com
Courtesy Jeremy Feder All-Star Charity Baseball Tournament
Play ball! Jeremy Feder, far right, organized his fifth annual baseball tournament in support of America’s VetDogs, a nonprofit that provides service dogs to disabled veterans. Above, Feder with the winning team of 10-year-olds.
‘Rollerblading rabbi’ reflects on first year at O’side Jewish Center By BRiaNa BoNfiglio bbonfiglio@liherald.com
“Nothing I learned in rabbinical school could prepare me for the exact circumstances since I’ve been here,” said Oceanside Jewish Center Rabbi Aaron Marsh, reflecting on one year in his position at the synagogue — a year that challenged him to bring new people together in new ways. Marsh joined OJC last Sep-
tember, just five months after completing rabbinical school at the Academy for Jewish Religion in Yonkers. Before becoming a rabbi, he was a software engineer for 20 years and taught Hebrew school for 15 years, a l o n g w i t h b e i n g h e av i ly involved with his former synagogue in Rochester. The new rabbi arrived at OJC that September mor ning at about 6 a.m. and led a service at 7. About a week later, 16-year-old
Khaseen Morris, of Oceanside, was fatally stabbed just a block up the road from the synagogue. “Even before Covid hit, there had been several difficult situations in the community,” Marsh said, recalling other deaths of community members around that time. In March, the coronavirus pandemic struck New York and forced OJC to shut down and Continued on page 9
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ur goal is to let children be children and not be defined by their disease.