By Abigail Klein Leichman on Oct 5, 2014
For at least 25 years now, Joseph Freedland of Fair Lawn has been hiring people with special needs to help in the production and packaging of shower curtains and hospital curtains at Hospi-Tel in East Orange.
The family business, founded by his father and uncle and now owned by his brother David, has eight to 10 such people working in the factory at any given time. Two of them have been with the company 20-plus years.
By Joanne Palmer, The Jewish Standard on Aug 24, 2020
It’s never been an issue before, certainly not in living memory.
But none of us has lived through a pandemic. We’ve never had to worry about our children getting covid-19, an infectious disease that until recently seemed definitely not to attack children very often, but a disease for which there is no cure. We haven’t had to worry about teachers and other school staff members getting it, and we haven’t had to worry about kids bringing the disease back home and infecting their families.
We’ve never had to worry about safety in this way before.
By Abigail Hepner Gross for The Jewish Standard on Jul 16, 2020
In early March, as the realization set in that we at Sinai Schools would have to move to online learning at all of our schools, it became apparent that we were living through history.
By Rabbi Dr. Yisrael Rothwachs on May 20, 2020
It’s been over 2 months since we initially began to socially distance. As an educator, as a parent, and as a son, I can attest that this has been an extremely trying time.
By Miriam Nekritz on May 14, 2020
On Tuesday, April 28, the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds performed a stunning show to honor the first responders on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. Flying in formation over Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge, our country expressed our collective gratitude to and admiration for this exceptional group of people.
By Dena Mayerfeld for The Jewish Link on May 30, 2019
The great musical maestro, Arturo Toscanini, was once listening to a very complex concert with a friend. Toscanini, known for his photographic memory, intense personality and superb ear for detail, asked his companion if he had noticed anything unusual about the rendition of the orchestral piece. The friend replied that he had not and wondered what Toscanini had found unusual and noteworthy. Toscanini replied with an outstanding observation: “There should be fourteen violins in that orchestra.
By Joanne Palmer of The Jewish Standard on May 21, 2019
This week, I joined a small group of adults in a visit to a presentation that the SINAI students at Ma'ayanot High School for Girls in Teaneck offered.
Each one of the girls in the school — each with a significant, and significantly different, developmental challenge — read a description of something she’d done, working with others, to improve the school’s environment or to help other people.
It is extraordinarily moving to watch these young women, and to watch their teachers watching them.
By Joanne Palmer of The Jewish Standard on Apr 11, 2019
It feels really good to be able to give.
That’s true for everyone, but it’s particularly true for people who often are given things. Giving back might be a cliché, but not everyone can do it.
By Aura Lurie, Director of SINAI at SAR Academy on Apr 9, 2019
This blog post was originally published on SAR's Divine Sparks blog.
By Christina Brower of TeachersPayTeachers.com on Apr 3, 2019
This article was originally published on the TeachersPayTeachers blog.
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