New Jersey Jewish News (1/13/16)
More than 200 people attended the premiere of a documentary about the life of Fred Heyman of Morristown, who has “twinned” with dozens of youngsters in order to share the lessons he learned as a survivor of the Holocaust.
News Archive
January - March 2016
JANUARY
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Survivor sees his life, and message, on film
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Greater MW day schools welcome national merger
New Jersey Jewish News (1/27/16)
Local educators have welcomed news of a merger of five national Jewish day school organizations, a multi-denominational collaboration modeled in part on one pioneered in Greater MetroWest.
FEBRUARY
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Shoa rescuer’s daughter recalls his deeds
New Jersey Jewish News (2/3/16)
Barbara Winton, the daughter of the famed British Holocaust rescuer Sir Nicholas Winton, was 34 in 1988 when the spotlight hit her family.
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February Is Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month
Jewish Link of New Jersey 2/11/16
For the past eight years, through the coordination of Greater MetroWest ABLE, the greater New Jersey community has participated in Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month (JDAIM).
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Goldner receives JFNA award
New Jersey Jewish News (2/24/16)
Ellen Goldner of Mountain Lakes, past president of the former United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ, has been named the Greater MetroWest 2016 recipient of the National Women’s Philanthropies’ Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland Award.
MARCH
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Holocaust Survivors Get Help from Federal Grant
NJTV News (3/16/16)
A story aired on NJTV News about Jewish Family Service of Central NJ’s receipt of an historic Shoa grant to provide innovative care to traumatized Holocaust survivors. Jewish Family Service of Central NJ is one of only 23 organizations around the country selected to receive this federal grant.
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Extending a welcome to all, ‘beyond the chairs’
New Jersey Jewish News (3/23/16)
How do you teach inclusion in a Jewish setting? That’s the question at the heart of a project that has children dancing to the Sh’ma, learning from artists with disabilities, and creating artwork that conveys a welcome to all.
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Kushner students win AIPAC award
New Jersey Jewish News (3/30/16)
For 36 students of Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston, their extracurricular support of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee had a special meaning this year.
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U.S. Attorney: Justice Reform is Jewish Value
New Jersey Jewish News (3/30/16)
As he helped plan “Building One Community: Criminal Justice Reform and the Jewish Response” — a forum to be held Wednesday, April 6, in Whippany — Paul Fishman, U.S. attorney for New Jersey, said he was inspired by his upbringing as a member of Temple Sholom (now Temple Avodat Shalom) in River Edge, where he grew up.