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Bar Mitzvah launches journey for 89-year-old
ELEPHANT TRACKS
BY JULIE KEMP PICK DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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t 13, Harold Katz became a man in the most devastating way when he and his family were torn from their home in Czechoslovakia. âThe Nazis took us away before my Bar Mitzvah in 1941. The police put us in (trains) and took us to Poland,â said Katz. Katz will fulfill his lifelong dream when he celebrates his Bar Mitzvah 76 years later on May 29 at Chabad of Wilmette. The festivities will begin on May 28 with a Torah Dedication Ceremony. Rabbi Moshe Teldon said Katz commissioned the Torah that heâs donating on his 88th birthday. âIt takes about 11 months for a scribe to write each letter of over 300,000 letters in a Torah,â the rabbi said. Katzâs daughter, Lila Katz, added, âThe 613th mitzvah is to write a Torah, which is what Dad Continued on PG 12
Gemma Francis, director of fundraising for Save the Elephants, introduces students at Lake Forest Country Day School to Squall, their adopted elephant. PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL.
Live feed lets LFCDS monitor âSquallâ in Kenya BY STEVE SADIN DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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tudents at Lake Forest Country Day School now have the opportunity to engage in something no other students in the world have the ability to do. The youngsters get to track every movement of Squall, an elephant roaming the land in Kenya. The school adopted Squall just over one year ago through Save the Elephants, an African-based organization devoted to studying and
preserving the worldâs largest land mammal. Lake Forest Country Day School became the first school in the world to get the opportunity to pioneer Save the Elephantsâ computer tracking technology. The app was introduced May 19 on the Lake Forest campus. âYou are the first school to have your own elephant. This is Squall,â said Gemma Francis, director of fundraising for Save
the Elephants, pointing to a photograph of the creature. âYou are the first school on the planet to be able to track your elephant with this tracking app.â When the founder of Save the Elephants, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, visited Lake Forest Country Day a year ago as the schoolâs scientist in residence, he told students about his effort to protect elephants from ivory hunters. He also spoke of his lifeâs work to protect the animals.
At the end of his presentation May 9, 2016, Douglas-Hamilton said the students would get their own elephant to track through the generosity of some members of the school community. He said they could track its movements every six months. Stephanie F isher, a former LFCDS parent, organized the Douglas-Hamilton visit. Now, instead of learning Continued on PG 12
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