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Tetzaveh • March 10, 2017 • 12 Adar • Purim Motzei Shabbat, Sunday • 5 Towns Candlelighting 5:39 pm, Havdalah 6:40 • Luach p. 19 • Vol 16, No 10 The Newspaper of our Orthodox communities
Friedman, Brafman SKA principal moves to MDS headline YOSS gala
Ambassador to Israel-designee David Friedman accepts YOSS’ Ohev Yisrael Award in memory of his father, Rabbi Morris Friedman, a”h. He is flanked by Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, YOSS rosh yeshiva.
Raizi Chechik will be leaving her post as principal of HALB’s Stella K. Abraham High School in Hewlett Bay Park to become Head of School at the Manhattan Day School, the Upper West Side elementary school announced on Tuesday. The appointment is effective July 15. “I feel privileged to have worked in the wonderful HALB community at SKA for these past four years, and I am delighted to be joining a team of expert and skilled administrative colleagues in continuing and building upon the legacy of all that MDS represents,” Chechik said. Prior to her tenure at SKA, Chechik was Head of School at the Ilan School, and Assistant Principal at Manhattan High School for Girls. She holds a Masters Degree in JuSee Principal on page 5
The Yeshiva of South Shore celebrated 60 Years of Jewish education last Sunday night, with a banquet at the Sands Atlantic Beach. Attorney Ben Brafman, a prominent resident of the Five Towns, introduced ambassador-designate David Friedman of Woodsburg, who spoke of the early days of the Five Towns as a center of yiddishkeit. Friedman, who’s been a legal colleague and shul friend of Brafman for many years, recalled what it was like before there was a Vaad HaKashrus in the area, and he spoke of his father’s leadership in helping to create that Vaad and such other institutions as the mikveh — all foundations on which a vibrant Torah community took hold. He shared the pride that his parents would have in knowing that every one of their grandchildren, and two great grandchildren, have received a wonderful, and comprehensive yeshiva education. Friedman accepted YOSS’ Ohev Yisrael Award in See YOSS on page 15
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THE ANTI-SEMITIC WAVE
Nothing to fear but panic, partisanship
Sweet 16 for No. Shore Hebrew Academy Gantze Megillah
On Sunday, 18 students at the North Shore Hebrew Academy Middle School, in Great Neck, will chant Megillat Esther for their schoolmates, faculty and families, in a special Purim Day assembly. Over the past 16 years, 275 students at the NSHA have been instructed by Dr. Paul Brody, a dermatologist by profession (back row, third from left, holding Megillah case. This unique program enables students, both Ashkenazic and Sephardic, to read the Megillah at various synagogues, hospitals, nursing homes and private homes, for those unable to attend public readings. Rabbi Adam Acobas, Middle School principal (back row, fourth from right), and Rabbi Jeffrey Kobrin, head of school (back row, at far right), facilitate the students’ hectic schedules to enable adequate review time with Brody, who has chanted the Megillah for 45 years, including in the Great Synagogue in Leningrad in 1985 — where the gabboyim were actually members of the KGB. Olivia Ghodsi
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Commentary by Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS.org American Jewry is under assault. A wave of bomb threats called into Jewish community centers and schools, cemetery desecrations and vandalism aimed at other identifiable targets such as synagogues has created an atmosphere of fear about anti-Semitism unmatched in recent memory.The incidents have caught the attention of the entire nation and brought home to a not insignificant percentage of the Jewish population the possibility that their gathering places have become a target for extremists. But like everything else in our hyper-partisan era in which any issue can become a political football, in the last several weeks anti-Semitism has become a political cudgel for Democrats seeking to blame President Donald Trump for the surge in inSee Nothing to fear on page 7