November 2009:

Jack Rosenfeld hasn’t seen or heard from his childhood friend Amram Meir since they arrived together at Mauthausen concentration camp in 1945. He has no idea if he is alive.

August 2010:

The two men reunite in Teaneck.

Rosenfeld and Meir recall their last days together as if they were yesterday.

Sharsheret, the national not-for-profit organization that supports young Jewish women facing breast cancer, kicks off its 10th anniversary by participating in the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation’s Race For The Cure on Sunday, Sept. 12, at Central Park in New York City. Last year, more than 700 women, men, and children joined Team Sharsheret, making it the largest team in the race for the fourth consecutive year.

Sharsheret Goodwill supporters include Englewood Hospital and Medical Center; Campmor Inc.; Yeshiva University; Stern College for Women Beren Campus; and The Rocking Chair, A Women’s Wellness Center. Team Supporters include Touro College-Lander College for Women. Team Patrons include Best Glatt Kosher; Chopstix USA; Dougie’s BBQ Teaneck; EJ’s Place; Ma’ayanot Yeshiva HS for Girls; Teaneck Dentist; The Frisch School; and Torah Academy of Bergen County.

To join Team Sharsheret, go to www.komennyc.org, click on Race for the Cure, and type Sharsheret. Call (866) 474-2774.

Rabbi Jack Bemporad wants it known that the visit he organized of eight Muslim-American leaders to concentration camps was a historic success.

Bemporad, director of the Carlstadt-based Center for Interreligious Understanding, called the Aug. 7 to 11 trip to Auschwitz in Germany and Dachau in Poland “a breakthrough in many respects, because … we took imams like [Yasir] Qadhi, for example,” who 10 years ago called the Holocaust a hoax. (Bemporad led the trip, which was sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, with Prof. Marshall Breger of the Catholic University of America.)

Following is a statement issued by the Muslim leaders who visited Auschwitz and Dachau last month.

“O you who believe, stand up firmly for justice as witnesses to Almighty God.” (Holy Qu’ran, al-Nisa “The Women” 4:135)

On Aug. 7-11, 2010, we the undersigned Muslim American faith and community leaders visited Dachau and Auschwitz concentration camps where we witnessed firsthand the historical injustice of the Holocaust.

Sounding the shofar in the synagogue on Rosh HaShanah is the high point of my year.

No other mitzvah in Judaism is so dependent on a personal skill or entails such high drama. And, at least for me, no other mitzvah renders quite the same sense of achievement and fulfillment.

I often hear people talk about the awakening power of the sound of the shofar — how awesome a moment or how inspiring an experience it is for them to hear it. For me, it is both a very public and an intensely personal experience.

Michael Edwards, James Brenner, Robert Brenner in ambulance driver’s seat, Jewel and Walter Brenner, and Jamie, Susan, Byron and Amanda Edwards.

A new ambulance will be joining the fleet of Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical service, thanks to the generosity of the Brenner and Edwards families.

Siblings Robert Brenner, James Brenner, and Susan (Brenner) Edwards, together with Susan’s husband, Michael, donated the ambulance through American Friends of Magen David Adom. The gift was in honor of the 60th wedding anniversary of their parents, Jewel and Walter Brenner, members of the Jewish Center of Teaneck for 44 years.

The honorees, their children, and grandchildren — Amanda, a junior at The Frisch High School; and Byron and Jamie, both Frisch alumni — attended the dedication ceremony in Teaneck on Aug. 25.

The ambulance will be on call 24 hours a day/ seven days a week to respond to emergencies. Through AFMDA donors, more than 800 ambulances and mobile intensive care units are stationed throughout Israel, logging nearly 10 million miles and taking care of 550,000 patients annually.

MDA, Israel’s only government-mandated ambulance service, receives no government funding and depends on the support of AFMDA. For information, contact Gary Perl, Northeast regional director, at (212) 757-1627 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

The pairing of Jewish calendars with striking images of Judaica makes for an exciting combination.

With each calendar page we encounter an illustration of a historical, or contemporary, precious Judaic object that can brighten our surroundings, lift our spirits, and enlighten us about some aspect of our rich traditions.

All the calendars reviewed below give candlelighting times, Torah readings, and the dates for major and minor holidays.

What do Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jackson, Corey Booker and Dr. Phil have in common? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a Jewish Standard columnist. On Monday, Sept. 13, 7 p.m., at the first annual Now Generation BBQ, hosted by Dana and Jim Adler and sponsored by UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey, Boteach, author of “Kosher Sex” and “Shalom in the Home,” will lead a discussion entitled “Let’s Talk about Sex.”

Dietary laws will be observed. Billed as an event for couples under 50, general admission is $180 a couple, $90 per person. For information, call Allison Halpern, 201-820-3955, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or go to www.ujannj.org/shmuleybbq.