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Tzedek Fellowship
Teen Leadership Program
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Picture, left to right: Rabbi Bradley Solmsen, Dr. Heidi Mandel, Dr. Steven Mandel, Ariel and Rabbi Shayna Golkow Zauzmer. | |
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Tzedek Fellowship
Teen Leadership program
by Ariel Glueck
In spring of 2023, the Park Avenue Synagogue Teen Department worked with the NYM Region to create a pilot program called the Tzedek Fellowship, a new hands-on leadership training initiative for teens to develop a tikkun olam initiative. I had the honor to work with Drs. Steven and Heidi Mandel and Aaron Altman directly to create this program from the ground up.
The Tzedek Fellowship at PAS ran from January to May and will continue yearly. Teens applied for the fellowship with a tikkun olam project they were already working on, or an idea to start one. They were able to apply alone or in groups.
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
Click here to read each Youth Leader's incredible tikkun olam project.
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NY Metro Regional
Installation Dinner Meeting
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I invite you to the
Installation Regional Dinner Meeting
of the NYM Region
June 21, 2023
at 7PM
Plainview Jewish Center
95 Floral Drive West
Plainview, NY
A Southwestern motif dinner will be served with dietary options for everyone! There is no cost to attend.
Our new Executive Board will be installed and we will pay tribute to outgoing NY Metro Region President, Aaron Altman, who deserves many accolades for his leadership these past two years.
We will begin promptly at 7pm.
Friendship, food and camaraderie for all.
An agenda will follow; please rsvp by Monday, June 19th at szlerner@optonline.net or 516-840-5464.
Sincerely in friendship,
Shea Lerner
Incoming NY Metro Region President
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2023 NY Metro Awards Program
Man of the Year
& Youth of the Year
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Listen and learn all about
our remarkable honorees
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Wrap-Up
Celebrate Israel Parade
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Israel @ 75: Renewing the Hope
On Sunday, June 4th, tens of thousands marchers and spectators participated in the New York City annual Celebrate Israel Parade.
Jews from all over the United States, members of youth movements, schools, synagogues, Jewish organizations and representatives from Israel attended the parade.
This year's Grand Marshall was Harley Lippman, the Founder and CEO of Genesis10. There was incredible live entertainment including singer, Matisyahu. Following the parade was a fun festive block party with family friendly activities, music, arts and crafts, food vendors and much more.
The JCRC-NY Celebrate Israel Parade is unquestionably the world’s largest expression of solidarity with the Jewish state. No other event in the world brings as many people together to celebrate Israel. It was a chance for us to gather, Jews and non-Jews alike, and walk arm in arm, together as one.
TODAH to all the partners, sponsors, and marching groups for helping to make the parade possible!
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“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement...get up in the morning and look around at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually."
- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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FJMC Convention
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FJMC Convention is several weeks away!
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Find schedules, participants, Pre-Convention and family activities,
group chats, Convention Directory and much more!
We look forward to seeing you in Philly!
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June Is Men's Health Month | |
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As Mental Health Fault Lines Deepen, the Time to Act is Now
(Jewish Journal) — Judaism unambiguously instructs us that health refers to both body and mind.
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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June Is Men's Health Month
(Men's Health Month) — Some interesting and fun things to do during Men’s Health Month or anytime during the year.
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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It's In Our Genes
(Jewish Journal) — Getting screened for genetic diseases is not just a good idea. It’s also a Jewish value.
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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Becoming Rainbow Ready
Are you, your congregation, school, or organization looking for resources for Pride Month, the annual celebration in June that honors the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan which has become a time to focus specifically on LGBTQ+ inclusion? Here is a helpful guide that was compiled by members of the LGBTQ+ Working Group of the Masorti/Conservative Movement’s Social Justice Commission for Pride 2023.
Click here to view Pride Guide.
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Supporters of Colorado web designer Lorie Smith and counter protesters demonstrate at the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 5, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) | |
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Religion and LGBT issues in the U.S., and same-sex marriage around the world
(Pew Research Center) A majority of Americans think business owners should be able to refuse to provide services in situations where providing them may “suggest support for beliefs about lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) issues” to which they have personal or religious objections, according to a new Pew Research Center survey...
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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What's Jewish about Pride? How can you support LGBTQ+ Jewish people around you? Want to take action for LGBTQ rights? Start here! | |
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June is Pride Month! Celebrate being LGBTQ+ and Jewish with joy and plenty of rainbows. Check out events, get stickers and signs, learn some Torah, take action, or find even more resources here. This page will be updated regularly during June, so make sure to bookmark and check back often!
Click here for helpful resources!
Do you have any resources that you would like to share for the newsletter? Please contact Lisa at assistant@fjmc.org
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JDC focuses on its elderly, infirm clients, as well as its staff; Chabad providing aid, evacuation help; IsraAid looks to provide long-term help. | |
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Jewish groups pitch in after burst dam floods Ukrainian cities and towns
(EJewish Philanthropy) — Jewish groups in the Ukrainian city of Kherson are scrambling to help members of the local community, including their own staff members, whose homes are being flooded following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River earlier this week.
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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NYC public schools don’t have the final two days of Passover off next year. A petition is trying to change that.
(New York Jewish Week) — New York City educators and parents are protesting after the city announced that public schools would be open for part of Passover next year, breaking from a longstanding tradition...
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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Jewish Champions
(Jewish Journal) — Debra Messing and Mandana Dayani on Combating Antisemitism Through Unabashed Jewish Pride and Fearless Activism.
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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The FJMC is now offering
Individual Membership
for a very low $36 a year!
...less than 10 cents a day!
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Remember
Your Jewish Traditions
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With Thousands of other Jewish Men
Reenergize
Your Jewish Legacy
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Join us for Yiddish Lite!
Beginner's Yiddish Group
Alternate Tuesday Evenings
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
at 8pm ET
Hosted by Al Davis
Click here to register!
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Join us for Torah Talks!
Thursday, June 22, 2023
7:30pm ET | 6:30pm CT | 4:30pm PT
With Norm Kurtz and Benny Sommerfeld
Click here to register!
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Join us for Yiddish Alive!
Advanced Yiddish Group
Monday, June 26, 2023 at 8pm ET
Hosted by Jeffrey Newton, Joe Rotstein, Esther Scheer and Barry Wagner
Click here to register!
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Support Our
Ma'asim Tovim Honoree
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Steven Mandel MD is Clinical Professor of Neurology at Hofstra/Northwell and adjunct Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College. He is a Member of Park Avenue Synagogue and Sutton Place Synagogue. His parents immigrated from Hungary and Czechoslovakia in the 1930’s and settled on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
You can honor Steve by placing an Ad in the Tribute Journal!
Deadline to place ads is June 23rd!
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Special Events Around the Region | |
Temple Israel of Great Neck
108 Old Mill Road, Great Neck, NY 11023
www.tign.org
(516) 482-7800
Temple Israel Film Series
The Angel Levine
June 20, 2023
at 7PM
The viewing of the next film in the Temple Israel Film Series is The Angel Levine starring Zero Mostel and Harry Belafonte.
Morris Mishkin is an elderly Jewish tailor plagued by hard times who prays to God for help and receives it in the person of a most unusual angel named Levine, a young, black, Jewish hustler from somewhere between Harlem and Heaven.
Join us in the Crystal Ballroom on Tuesday, June 20 at 7:00 p.m. Admission is free. Movie snacks will be provided.
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Park Avenue Synagogue
50 E 87th Street, New York, NY 10128
Phone: 212-369-2600
www.pasyn.org
ROOFTOP WITH THE RABBI
Enjoy a late-afternoon gathering with friends old and new in our
70+ group on the PAS rooftop! Our event will feature noshes, drinks,
and some light learning with Rabbi Cosgrove
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
At 5:00 PM
87th Street Rooftop
Register here
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Congregation L'Dor V'Dor
49-10 Little Neck Pkwy, Little Neck, NY 11362
Phone: 718-224-0404
www.olnjc.org
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Rummage Sale!
August 6 - August 8, 2023
Sunday, August 6
10am to 4pm
Monday, August 7
10am to 4pm
6pm to 9pm
Tuesday, August 8 (Bag Day!)
10am to 4pm
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Midwood resident and fiddler Jake Shulman-Ment, left, with his frequent collaborator, Daniel Kahn. (Courtesy) | |
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How this Brooklyn neighborhood became the ‘Klezmer Shtetl’
(New York Jewish Week) — Some of the greatest talents in Jewish music have strolled Midwood’s lettered avenues, including the klezmer musician Pete Sokolow and the Hasidic composer Ben Zion Shenker. Both have left us — Sokolow in 2022, Shenker in 2016 — but the Modzitzer synagogue on Avenue L, where Shenker once lead prayers, is a spiritual home for klezmer virtuoso and Midwood denizen Andy Statman, 73. He’s davened (prayed) there for more than 30 years.
Click here to read the article in its entirety!
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Samar Qupty and Reymonde Amsellem in the Israeli film "The Future." (Nati Levi) | |
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A comics legend, a punk band and an Israeli sci-fi drama bring Jewish themes to the Tribeca Film Festival
(New York Jewish Week) — Now 21 years old, New York’s biggest film festival is also reliably rife with Jewish connections. Here are some of the Jewish-interest films premiering at Tribeca this year. If you can’t make it in person, select films this year will be available for streaming following the festival.
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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Glace, a scoop shop on Madison Avenue, is the latest food venture to come out of the Zabar family. (Julia Gergely) | |
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Glace, a new Upper East Side ice cream shop, carries on the Zabar family tradition
(New York Jewish Week) — It’s not every day that a new ice cream parlor opens on the Upper East Side — much less a new, “French-inspired” scoop shop opened by the offspring of one the most famous Jewish families in New York’s culinary scene...
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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It’s strange to imagine a scientist achieving the widespread recognition and adulation enjoyed by movie stars and elite athletes, but Albert Einstein’s life was seemingly propelled by such contradictions. | |
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Facts About Albert Einstein
- Einstein’s Speech Was Slow to Develop in Childhood.
- Einstein Rose to Fame after a 1919 Eclipse Confirmed His Theory of General Relatively.
- Einstein Was an Enthusiastic Amateur Musician.
- The Famous "Tongue Photo" Was Shot On His 72nd Birthday.
- Einstein Declined An Offer To Become President Of Israel.
- The FBI Kept A Thick File On The Outspoken Physicist.
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
Do you have any trivia or interesting facts that you would like to share for the newsletter? Please contact Lisa at assistant@fjmc.org
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Letters to the Editor
If you have an article of interest, a special event happening at your Men's Club or other news for the New York Metro Region newsletter, please forward them to Lisa Pollack at assistant@fjmc.org
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New York Metro Region Looking for Volunteers!
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Inquiries and questions, contact: Aaron Altman at aaltman@fjmc.org
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Please check out our website for the latest news around the region,
the exciting club programs and more.
New York Metro Region Newsletter edited by Lisa Pollack.
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