The Holocaust Commemoration Committee of The Jewish Community Council of Greater Teaneck is seeking six families to serve as “candle lighters” for its Yom Hashoah program, to be held on Thursday, April 19, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Teaneck High School auditorium. For information, contact Reggie Koenig at (201) 838-5466 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), Phyllis Eisenman at (201) 838-5873 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), or Jeannette Malca at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or (201) 248-4648.

Ilana Matteson, left, vice president of Temple Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly, with Nancy Perlman, manager of process, program, and funding development for the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Synagogue Leadership Initiative. Courtesy JFNNJ

Continuing its exploration of how to serve the four generations that make up a synagogue community, the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Synagogue Leadership Initiative recently offered “The Boomer Table.” The session was led by Stuart Himmelfarb, co-founder of B3/The Boomer Platform. Up next for discussion by SLI is the millennial generation on March 19. SLI is sponsored by JFNNJ in partnership with the Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation.

John A. Rosen Courtesy AJC

John A. Rosen of East Brunswick succeeds Allyson M. Gall as New Jersey area director for the American Jewish Committee. Gall retired after 14 years. Since 2007, Rosen has been responsible for overseeing all of the AJCommittee’s fundraising activities in New Jersey.

Registration is open for NORPAC’s annual Mission to Washington, which is set for Wednesday, May 9. Call (201) 788-5133, or register online at www.norpac.net.

Members of the National Council of Jewish Women, Jersey Hills Section, knitted and crocheted 140 hat, scarf, and mitten sets for children of Vincent Capuana School No. 15 of Passaic, an all-kindergarten school. This is the fourth year the group has done so. From left, Harriet Berger, Iris Gold, and Linda Cohen, distributing the sets. Courtesy NCJW

The New Jersey branch of NCSY, the international youth movement of the Orthodox Union, is sending two delegations of teens from public high schools and area yeshivot to New Orleans, La. (NOLA), later this month. The groups will help with ongoing rebuilding efforts left following the devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The largest all-girls delegation yet — 17 students from Fair Lawn and Teaneck high schools, and Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls in Teaneck — will be in NOLA from Feb. 8 to 12. A second delegation of boys and girls from Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School of Livingston will be there from Feb. 22 to 27. Students from The Frisch School in Paramus are planning missions in March to Alabama and/or to Joplin, Mo.

The Women of Temple Beth Tikvah of Wayne are planning a “Swing Into Spring” runway fashion show, tricky tray, and dinner at The Brownstone in Paterson, on Thursday, April 26. Doors will open at 6 p.m., and fashions will be by the Valley Hospital Kurth Cottage Gift Shop in Ridgewood. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Wayne Interfaith Food Pantry and Valley Hospital Auxiliary. Tickets are $48. Call (973) 595-6565.

Those who plant a tree with Jewish National Fund on or before Tu Bi-Sh’vat, Feb. 8, will be entered into a raffle to win two round-trip tickets to Israel via El Al Israel Airlines, including a visit to JNF’s Harvey Hertz Ceremonial Tree Planting Center at Neot Kedumim, where the winners will get plant a tree. Call (800) 542-TREE or www.jnf.org. Some restrictions apply.