You attend a wedding — the food is tasty, the music is loud and the chuppah is magnificent, but one thing stands out in your mind — the bride. She looks breathtaking, her hair is perfect and the natural colors of her makeup emphasize her striking features, but you decide that it’s her dress that is catching everyone’s attention. It’s one of the most gorgeous dresses you have ever seen, and when you find out that it came from a gemach you’re astounded.
A national anthem written more than 50 years before the birth of the state for which it was composed, Hatikvah has served as a source of hope and inspiration for Jews who have found themselves in the most dire of circumstances. During the darkest hours of the Holocaust, Jews defied their tormentors by singing the song’s powerful lyrics. The SS could not stop them.
Orly Wahba, founder of Life Vest Inside, was recently invited to speak at the Northern Monmouth Chamber of Commerce at their quarterly Women in Business Luncheon. The Northern Monmouth Chamber of Commerce is a valued resource for businesses and the community, providing information, facilitating business education, encouraging collaboration and sponsoring networking opportunities for members.
A staple in our community for over 30 years, Tawil Dental has recently moved into the heart of the community. Dr. David Tawil and his son, Dr. Isaac Tawil, have joined together in a new, bright, state-of-the-art office on Kings Highway, where patients are enjoying the warm and pleasant atmosphere.
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As a result of an increase in anti-Semitic attacks around the world, the Israeli Government’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs will hold a three day conference next week at the Ramada Hotel, in Jerusalem.
Over 400 people gathered Wednesday evening, May 8th at Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage to mark the 29th annual awards dinner of the Aleh Foundation, under the direction of Rabbi Shlomo Braun. The Aleh Foundation is internationally recognized for its pioneering work with severely handicapped children and young adults in Israel. Launched in 1984 to assist a few distraught families in need, today the Aleh Foundation brings hope and help to over 12,000 families through its therapeutic centers in Bnei Brak, Gedera, Jerusalem and the Negev.
In order to gain an appreciation for what soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces do, students in grades 5 through 8 participated in an informative Yom Ha’atzmaut program at Gesher Yehudah Yeshiva. Reservist Yossi Tenami described what it was like to go into the army to fight for the land and people of Israel.
For seven months, Holocaust survivors and YOF students got together to prepare for a Holocaust memorial program, which was anything but typical. When the program began, 10 Holocaust survivors were tenderly escorted to seats on the stage by their teenage partners, who proceeded to reenact stirring episodes from the survivors’ own lives, accompanied by narration from the survivors themselves. The youngsters had heard the stories during their weekly sessions.
Kehilath Jeshurun recently invited me to the Ladies Night Cooking Demons-tration and Dinner by Kim Kushner, at Congregation Edmond J. Safra Shul of Manhattan (Safra).KJ and Safra are prominent Upper East side synagogues.The proceeds of the evening went to Project Leket, a group in Israel which delivers fresh produce to over 290 nonprofit organizations serving Israel’s needy.
The American Sephardi Federation recently conducted a survey aimed at finding archival collections related to Sephardic, Mizrahi and Bukharian Jews held in synagogues, state archives, cultural organizations, or by individuals in six Mid-Atlantic and New England states.
They learned that somewhere in New Jersey there is a collector who owns a rich collection of correspondence—about 800 pieces, mostly written in Ladino—that originated in Vienna and the Ottoman Empire between 1840 and 1940. Almost all of the correspondence comes from merchants, but not all of it deals exclusively with business matters. Some is about family issues. The collector’s name has not been made public.
Yom Yerushalayim — Jerusalem Day — is the most recent addition to the Hebrew calendar. It is celebrated one week before the eve of Shavuot. Although Jerusalem has been considered the capital city of the Jewish people since the time of King David—who conquered it and built it as the seat of his monarchy—there was never a special day in honor of the city until the Israeli army took over the ancient, eastern part of the city on the third day of the Six-Day War in June 1967.
