Debra Zinn, of Hewlett, was one of nine Touro College School of Health Sciences students that received the distinguished Maimonides Award at the Sept. 10 graduation at the Tilles Center.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/26/19
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Helene Kaufman née Popover, of Keene, New Hampshire, was a former hospital administrator who volunteered at her synagogue for 30 years and lived in Brooklyn and Woodmere. She died on Sept. 11, at Maplewood Nursing Home in Westmoreland. She was 93.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/21/17
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The Friends of Rock Hall held its 42nd annual meeting ad installation officers at the 18th century plantation turned town of Hempstead museum in Lawrence on June 7.
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7/27/17
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North Woodmere resident Eden Preis, a Hewlett High School senior, returned from a January trip she said she will cherish forever. Eden and her mother, Mickie, an otologist at Maimonides Medical Center in Manhattan, went to the Philippine province of Ifugao, and, working with Advancing Native Missions, a charity organization, helped fit 580 people with eyeglasses and assisted with medical procedures.
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By Vanessa Parker
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2/17/16
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In our prayers on Hanukkah we say “Your children came to the Holy of Holies in the Temple … purified it and kindled lights in the courtyards …” The miraculous had occurred, the Temple rededicated and a holiday was established.
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By Rabbi Kenneth Hain
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12/12/14
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Every Father’s Day I am reminded of the day my son, Paul, was born. I had a Cesarean section in Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn and my dad had stomach surgery. On the morning of Feb. 21, 1977 dad and I were in the same hospital having surgery at the very same time.
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By Phyllis Weinberger
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6/11/14
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Why blow the shofar? Maimonides, known by Jews universally as the Rambam, answers simply but profoundly. It is a wake-up call. We wander through much of life slumbering, not capable of making rational decisions or avoiding dangers. The shofar is sounded to awaken us to the dangers ahead.
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Rabbi Yaakov Feitman, Kehillas Bais Yehudah Tzvi
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9/4/13
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