Ken Hilfman
Super Sunday callers net their goal
PARAMUS — Nearly 450 volunteers helped the UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey to reach its announced goal of $1.1 million in pledges during this week’s Super Sunday phonathon.
“This year’s Super Sunday was a tremendous success,” Dr. Zvi Marans, the chair of the federation’s 2010 campaign, told this newspaper.
“As of Tuesday morning, we’re still counting,” he added. “We’ve reached our goal of $1,100,000. We couldn’t have done it without the enthusiastic volunteers and the support of UJA-NNJ’s donors. It’s a support that reaffirms what we’ve always known: When our fellow Jews need us, no matter where in the world that need is, the people of northern New Jersey’s Jewish community step up to help in any way they can.”
UJA-NNJ Mitzvah Day site-hopping
On Nov. 1, UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey offered area Jews an opportunity to do good. Mitzvah Day 2009 sent some 1,500 volunteers all over Bergen and Passaic counties to help others in the community.
Among the projects:
• At the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County in New Milford, volunteers made Chanukah cards for Israeli soldiers and crafted Shabbat/Chanukah placemats to be donated to Tomchei Shabbos in Fair Lawn and Elmwood Park. Linda Scherzer Mikay, a former CNN reporter in Israel, helped her 5-year-old twins Noa and Danny make cards. Schechter students Elisheva Gold and Rebecca Finkelstein, both 10 years old, worked on the placemats.
Zachor: Remembrance and resistance
‘A stark reminder’
Holocaust denial is anti-Semitism, said Paul A. Shapiro, director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. “There are lessons we need to be reminded of,” he said.
“It’s a way to spread hatred,” Shapiro told the crowd of 500 people at the shul’s Yom HaShoah commemoration sponsored by UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey. “Now, to be able to use 50 million documents to show the truth is a very strong weapon against a denial.”
