Lifecycle: Simchas: Mazal tov
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Mazal tov to Emmett Weisz, a third grader at Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County, who garnered first place in the New Jersey State Math Championship on May 9 in Marlboro.
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Mazal tov to Yeshiva College junior Gilad Barach of Teaneck, awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, a highly competitive grant that supports undergraduates who intend to pursue careers in science, math, or engineering. Only 271 college sophomores and juniors across the country are selected for the scholarship, which covers the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year.
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Mazal tov to Brandon Block, shown here at Petco in Freehold, where he collected more than $2,300 worth of toys, blankets, and treats for animals to donate to the Monmouth County SPCA. He donated the items as a bar mitzvah project after being inspired by the animal group Rock & Rawhide.
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Mazal tov to the Yeshiva University High School for Boys (MTA) Chorus on winning the 2013 V’ata Banim Shiru chorus competition, held at Rambam Mesivta in Lawrence, N.Y., on April 28. Chorus members include Ari Mandelbaum and C.J. Glicksman of Teaneck and Devir Kahan, Gabi Rosenthal, and Josh Birnbaum of Monsey, N.Y., pictured in the chorus.
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Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business Student Council presidents, Jesse Nathanson, left, and Ariela Geller, flank Mortimer Zuckerman at the school’s 26th anniversary gala awards dinner on April 23 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. Zuckerman, a philanthropist and publisher, received the first Sy Syms Humanitarian award at the event, which was organized by the Sy Syms Student Council. Zuckerman is the co-founder and executive chair of Boston Properties and the owner and publisher of the New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report, where he serves as editor-in-chief.
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Mazal tov to former Englewood Mayor Michael Wildes, third from left, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law adjunct professor, and Wildes & Weinberg, P.C., managing partner, who received the Doris and Dr. Ira Kukin Entrepreneurial Lecture Series award at Yeshiva University Beren Campus on April 19. Pictured with him, far left, are his father, Leon Wildes, Wildes & Weinberg senior partner; Michael Strauss, Yeshiva University’s Associate Dean, Entrepreneur in Residence, Clinical Professor of Management Sy Syms School of Business and Assistant to the Provost; and Sy Syms School of Business and Stern College representatives.
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Mazal tov to Paul Seitelman who celebrated his bar mitzvah sheini (second bar mitzvah) on April 27 at Temple Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly. He was a bar mitzvah 45 years ago at Beth Shalom Peoples Temple of Brooklyn. Seitelman, who serves as a vice president of Sinai, joined the temple two years ago when Temple Beth Am in Teaneck closed.
Cantor Nitza Amit-Shamah helped him learn the parashat.
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Mazal tov to Carol Slote Bernstein and Robert I. Bernstein, on the b’nai mitzvah of their grandchildren, Jarrett Roen Slote of Hinesburg, Vt., nearly 16, son of Stuart A. Slote, and Madeleine Juliette Bernardeau of Manhattan, almost 13, daughter of Ellen J. Bernardeau. They were among a group of six who were part of Temple Sinai of Bergen County’s multi-generational trip to Israel who became b’nai mitzvah on December 30, 2012 at Robinson’s Arch, an extension of the Kotel. Madeleine Bernardeau will celebrate her second bat mitzvah on May 18 at Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City. Sarah T. Millstein, daughter of Rabbi Jordan Millstein of Temple Sinai of Bergen County and Rabbi Paula Feldstein, educational director of Temple Avodat Sholom in River Edge, were also among the group. Natan Sharansky, a member of the Knesset and chair of a committee trying to solve the issue of the Women of the Wall, was also there. The Bernsteins are longtime members of Temple Sinai, where Carol Bernstein is a past president of the sisterhood.
