Around the community
- Minna Heilpern, a volunteer with the Israel National Therapeutic Riding Association, visited with students at the Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies. She gave them an update on Jerry, one of their therapeutic horses, that was purchased with tzedakah collected in 2004 by BCHSJS students. Improving Jerry’s failing health has become this year’s tzedakah project. (Courtesy BCHSJS)
- Sixth and seventh graders at Shomrei Torah in Wayne participated in the World Wide Wrap, a celebration of the mitzvah of wrapping tefillin. (Courtesy Shomrei Torah)
- A delegation of Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey women recently visited Nahariya, JFNNJ’s sister city in Israel. They met with relatives of Adar Barsano, an IDF soldier who died during Operation Protective Edge. Federation has named its executive conference room after Barsano. Adar’s father, Gil, left, is a firefighter in the Nahariya Fire Department. With him are Gale S. Bindelglass, Franci Steinberg, Dana Post Adler, and Suzette Diamond. Two Nahariya firefighters stand between them. (Courtesy Federation)
- Congregation Gesher Shalom/JCC Fort Lee congregants visited the New York Historical Society with Rabbi Ken Stern. (Courtesy Gesher Shalom)
- Temple Emanu-El of Closter’s sixth and seventh graders and families joined Rabbis David-Seth Kirshner and Alex Friedman and Cantor Israel Singer to participate in the World Wide Wrap. (Courtesy Emanu-El)
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