Rebecca Kaplan Boroson
Thumbing through the pages
Boroson on Books
I had thought to begin this first column on books of Jewish interest with a review of "The Emperor of Lies" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) by Steve Sem-Sandberg (translated from the Swedish by the eerily named Sarah Death).
It is a thinly fictionalized although richly imagined account of the Lodz Ghetto, peopled with a panoply of characters worthy of Dickens at his grimmest.
The changing of the guard
A night at the Philharmonic
Alas, poor Ketzel
Part II: The Harry Robert School of Journalism
Scenes from a career in journalism: I
In memory of Shuly Kustanowitz
What’s in a name?
Henry Taub, 1927-2011
Lautenberg remembers Taub as a man who “helped robustly”
Sen. Frank Lautenberg said in a telephone interview on Tuesday that his longtime friend and former business partner Henry Taub was “distinguished by modesty and humility.” He was “concerned about all human beings,” not merely those who “had status and wealth,” Lautenberg continued. He was “very respectful” of those who needed help — and he “helped robustly.”
Taub was “devoted to the city of Paterson,” Lautenberg noted, creating “a program to help revitalize the economy and quality of life there. We were both fond of our roots in Paterson, both from poor immigrant families, and he had great concern for those who needed assistance. Whether fighting for better health or better education, Henry’s always been in the forefront.”
Henry Taub, 1927-2011
Henry Taub praised for role in Synagogue Leadership Initiative
Henry Taub, who among other accomplishments founded the Synagogue Leadership Initiative of UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey in 1997, was lauded on Monday by its current and past director.
Judy Beck, who was SLI’s director for 12 years, told The Jewish Standard that “in my mind, Henry really was a visionary. We were the first community in the country that had a federation-based synagogue-improvement program. He came to the fed with the idea,” she noted, and “he stayed close to it until he was ill. There wasn’t a meeting he wasn’t at. SLI was his baby — he was very proud of it.”
The funding for SLI originally came from the Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation; now 50 percent of it comes from UJA-NNJ, according to Beck.
