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Alumni Spotlight
Alumnus of the Month
NCSY alumni Cindy Darrison serves as a role model for Jewish women & all Jews of the difference one person can make.  Recently she was appointed Sr. advisor to NY Governor David A. Patterson.
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Cindy Darrison
A What? Oh, A Dvar Torah - by Rabbi Yaacov Haber - "Australia, Michelangelo and Holiness."
Keeping The Flame Alive - Herby Dan, Devora Jaye..."
Mazal Tov Corner
Yizkor Corner

What's Nu
NJ Honors Wielgus + & Recent Articles

This year NJ Region is making it's first ever Alumni tribute to Miriam and Chaim Wielgus in the Torah Fund Yearbook.  For an ad blank email mailto:rabbidave@ou.org?subject=Wielgus%20Ad%20Blank

May 4th Long Island NCSY Second Annual Basketball Tournament 

Fun for the Whole Family Starting at 3:00 at Lawrence Middle School!
Magic Show at 3:30 and 4:30, Free BBQ Sponsored by Supersol at 4:00,
Face Painting, Balloon Animals, Arts and Crafts projects, giveaways and more!


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Rabbi Dave's Column
Just another NCSY Miracle
A few years ago I started a learning program at the NJ NCSY drop in center (later to be renamed Elana’s Place). The Hemshech program gave us funding to pair up mentors with public school students in Chavrusot and I was all over it!! That first year, we ended up attracted several wonderful girls (seven) who all fell in love with learning and each one is an individual miracle by themselves. One girl’s parents could not bring her so, I went to Dalia’s house to pick her up and therefore she was the last to arrive. We had many more girls come to learn than boys (big surprise) and I no longer had any girl Chavrusot so I asked her to learn with a Yeshiva Bochur who had came by that first week as an extra hand just in case and was also without a Chavrusa named Matis.  More...		 Rabbi Dave

A What? Oh, A Dvar Torah
Australia, Michelangelo & Holiness
About six years ago I took my family on a trip to the outback of Australia. We drove hours away from civilization to visit a friend of mine, an artist, who lived alone on 700 acres of what they call Down under, the bush. After driving without a road and eventually almost without a car we arrived at the site. We were in the presence of untouched nature and beauty that defied all imagination. For the first time  More...		 Rabbi Haber

Alumni and NCSY Keeping The Flame Alive
A Proud Alum Bakes His Way From Memphis To Israel

The bearded baker depicted on Herby Dan's floury apron appears a tad younger than the man who's wearing it while kneading rye bread dough. That's because Dan has been baking goodies since well before his aliya more than 20 years ago. More...

Thank You Letter from Public School Parents

Devora Jaye - "Life As a Happy Single."

 Herby Dan

Mazal Tov Corner

Daniella Halstuch (LI) and Avi Robinson on their wedding

Rabbi Ari and Suzy Israel on the birth of their daughter Rachel Meira Israel

Sandy and Rabbi Alan Kalinsky (Director, OU West Coast) upon the engagement of their Michal to Yoni Frankel

Ceil and David Olivestone upon the birth of a baby boy to their children, Elisha and Frumie Olivestone

Eitan Esan ( Rochester ,NY )
and Leah Zigman ( Long Beach ,CA ) on their engagement

Kara Eisenman ( West Hempstead ,NY ) and
Avram Zamist ( Passaic ,NJ ) on their engagement

Ben and Maital Stern on the birth of a baby girl

Dalia Barenboim (NJ) and Matis Shulman (NJ) on their engagement

Rivki (Rachel) Salesky and Bentzi Herman on their wedding

Please send us your announcements

 Yizkor Corner

Condolences on the Passing of Theodore Hamburger to his wife Beverly (nee Finkelstein), and children Dr. Jonathan Hamburger, Daniel Hamburger, and Elise Zakroff

condolences on the passing of Moshe Fuller founder of Ohr HaNer, an outreach organization for teenagers from Central and South America

condolences on the passing of Edith Bane the mother of former NCSY Chair Moshe Bane

Condolences on the passing of Mrs. Nancy Schnack to her daughter Caryn (Schnack) Weingast

Please send us your announcements
Volume: 4
Issue: 13
 
 
 

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