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Organizers use liaisons to promote annual Walk 4 Friendship set for Sunday, June 5
LET THE WALK BEGIN with Moishy Kudan, Friendship Circle volunteer, doing the ribbon-cutting honors for last year’s Walk 4 Friendship while Liba Andrusier, director and founder of the Capital Region Friendship Circle, steadies the ribbon. Kudan was chosen because he garnered the most sponsors for his walk last year.
Organizers for the second annual Walk 4 [...]
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Tagged Achim, Alex Aryeh, B, Beth Abraham-Jacob, Beth Emeth, Circle, Delmar, Efraim Backman, Elm Park, Elyse Wohl, Friendship, friendship circle, Israel, Jessica Sternlicht, Miriam Kudan, Ricky Aryeh, Russell Sternlicht, Shalom, Sholom, social service groups
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‘Celebrating Yiddish’ concert featuring Cantor Shira Ginsburg is set for ‘The Linda, on June 5
Ne’imah Jewish Community Chorus will perform its 19th annual concert “Celebrating Yiddish” at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, June 5, at the Linda Norris Auditorium, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio, 318 Central Ave.
Ne’imah’s guest performer will be Cantor Shira Ginsburg (left) from the East End Temple in New York City. She is a graduate of the Hebrew Academy [...]
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Tagged Capital District, Central Ave, concert, Debbie Friedman, East End, hebrew union college, imah, israeli composers, Judith Ginsburg, Linda Norris Auditorium, New York, New York City, Shira Ginsburg, singer song writer, TROY
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HACD to honor Ruth and Leo Phaff, Laura Segal, and Rodney Margolis at Heritage Awards Dinner, May 19
The Hebrew Academy of the Capital District (HACD) will honor four individuals for outstanding service and dedication to the school and to the community at their annual Heritage Awards dinner and auction fundraiser at 6 p.m., Thursday, May 19. The program will be held at Temple Israel, 600 New Scotland Ave., Albany.
Honored will be [...]
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Ginsberg, Pozners, Hollands to receive Temple Israel’s Circle of Humanity award
Mara Ginsberg, Rona and Louis-Jack Pozner, and Marilyn and Herb Holland will receive the Temple Israel Circle of Humanity Award at a dinner set for 5:30 p.m., Thursday, May 5, at the temple, 600 New Scotland Ave.
The Circle of Humanity award is presented to individuals who reach out to others and who devote themselves to [...]
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Tagged Camp Givah, Herb, Holland, Israel, Louis-Jack Pozner, Mara Ginsberg, Marilyn, New York, new york counties, parent teacher association, President, Scotland, temple, yasher koach
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Dr. Stephen Berk to speak on “American Jewish Experience” as Ohav Shalom scholar-in-residence during century celebration
CARRYING THE TORAH. Rabbi Rubinger and others carried the Torahs to the new synagogue in November 1963.
ALBANY–As part of Congregation Ohav Shalom’s one hundred year anniversary celebration, historian Dr. Stephen M. Berk, the Henry and Sally Schaffer Professor of Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Union College, will serve as the 2011 Scholar in Residence on [...]
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Painting for a Mitzvah
Helping beautify Albany High School (AHS), eight young professionals and graduate students from the JenX group, with the assistance of the AHS custodial staff, painted a hallway at the school as one of the activities of the third annual Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York Mitzvah Day.
From left: Brian Levine, Allyson Levine, David Hausler, and [...]
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Tagged AHS, albany high school, Allyson Levine, Brian Levine, David Hausler, JenX, levine david, Mitzvah Day, school
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Summer Café
Israeli singer/songwriter Oneg Shemesh performed two acoustic sets for 40 people at the Jewish Educational Resources of New York (JERNY) Israel café July 31. Shemesh performed modern acoustic rock mixed with traditional tunes in both Hebrew and English at JERNY’s Beit Café, according to Rabbi Yaakov Kellman, JERNY executive director. Shemesh also told stories of [...]
Knesset Israel elects Lawrence Spinak
GLOVERSVILLE–Lawrence Spinak was elected president for 2010-2011 at the 53rd annual meeting of Congregation Knesset Israel. Lawrence Horowitz was elected second vice president; Robert Weiner, past president, was elected treasurer; and Jennifer Pomeroy was elected recording secretary.
Re-elected were Ruth Levinton-Pettit, first vice president; and Merwin Greene, financial secretary.
Spinak assumes the presidency after the recent unexpected [...]
