Around the community
Members of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey stand together at the annual meeting of the N.J. State Association of Jewish Federations. From left, Lori Fein, the director of JFNNJ’s Jewish Community Relations Committee; Ron Rosensweig, JCRC chair and JFNNJ board member; Gordon Haas, president of the State Association; Susan Penn, its secretary and JFNNJ board member; Deanne Penn, chair of the JFNNJ Partnership2Gether Physician Exchange; Ruth Cole, State Association past president and JFNNJ board member; JFNNJ past president Leonard Cole, and Jack Toporek, executive director of the N.J. State Association of Jewish Federations. The July 12 meeting was at the Wilf Jewish Community Campus in Scotch Plains. (Photo provided)
The religious school at Temple Sinai of Bergen County held a ceremony for its confirmation class on Shavuot. Here, in the front row, from left, are Cantor Nitza Shamah, Susannah Abrams, Emily Matteson, Billie Singer, and Sophia Wolmer. Maya Simon, Kate Klein, Bailey Kaplan, Alexa Miller, and Rabbi Jordan Millstein are in the middle row, and school director Sara Kaplan, William Goldman, Aidan Kluger, Eli Gold, Lucas Goldman, and Zachary Benjamin are in the back. (Courtesy Sinai)
A group of more than 50 people from Lubavitch on the Palisades of Tenafly went to the Lubavitcher rebbe’s grave in Queens to mark his 22th yahrzeit. After a learning session on the bus with Rabbi Mordechai Shain, participants wrote a letter to be read and placed at the grave. www.chabadlubavitch.org. (Courtesy LOTP)
BergenPAC in Englewood treated participants from the Gallen Day Center, including Cathy O’Donnell, pictured, to a performance of “Jessie’s Girl.” This was part of an ongoing partnership with the Jewish Home Family. The adult day program specializes in giving a stimulating array of activities and programming to people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, MS, and other conditions. (Courtesy JHF)
Lisa Traiger of Passaic, a social worker at JFS of Metrowest, received the Lester Z. Lieberman Humanism in Healthcare award from the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey this month. The award is given annually to employees, students, and faculty in health care who demonstrate extraordinary compassion and kindness in their treatment of patients and families. (Courtesy JFS)
Campers at Gan Yaldenu in Teaneck had the chance for parachute play with their stuffed bears for “Bears Week.” (Courtesy Gan Yaldenu)
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