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JHV: VICKI SAMUELS LEVY
During Torah Vachesed’s Torah procession, Rojer Ben David touches the new Torah, held by George Barforough. Ofek
Ben David holds a chuppah pole, and Ran Baron and Tomer Lichtenthal carry the shul’s other Torahs.
A stroll for a scroll
Torah Day School
hires new leaders
Arlene Lassin will
assume the position
of principal at Torah
Day School, and Hetty
Perl will become early
childhood coordinator.
They will join the
experienced and out-
standing faculty and
staff under the leader-
ship of Chiena Lazaroff,
director of the school
since its inception.
Lassin succeeds Nancy
Epstein, who retired
this year.
“I am confident
Mrs. Lassin will con-
tinue the traditions
and academic excel-
lence of TDS,” Epstein
said.
With a bachelor’s
and master’s in
education from Temple
University, in her
See Leaders on Page 5
Arlene Lassin
Hetty Perl
Torah Vachesed dedicates
new sefer Torah
By VICKI SAMUELS LEVY
A true community Torah:
That’s what the congregation of
Torah Vachesed danced around
the shul on Sunday evening,
July 28, after completing the
Ashkenazi scroll’s last few
words.
The Southwest Houston shul
now has four Torah scrolls, but
according to Torah Vachesed’s
Rabbi Avraham Yaghobian, “only
one belongs to the shul.” The
others are “on loan.”
The 1930s-’40s European
sefer Torah is quite heavy,
See Torah on Page 5
JHV: VICKI SAMUELS LEVY
Mikhael Efergan is called to the Torah as Dr. Abraham Lieberman adds a
yud to the last few words in Torah Vachesed’s new scroll. Yehuda Yaghobian
easily passes through the crowd for a close-up look.
Barish Institute includes
free educator’s trip to Israel
Religious school teachers will have a unique
opportunity to experience Israel firsthand
through the Jewish Federation of Greater
Houston’s new Shirley Barish Israel Educators
Institute.
The Barish family and Chair King Backyard
Store have provided a $100,000 grant to enable
up to 20 religious school educators to participate
in this program, which includes pre- and post-
trip classes and a trip to Israel in June 2014. The
Barish family wanted to create the Institute in
memory of Shirley Barish, of blessed memory, to
honor her legacy as a Jewish educator.
“Israel education should be central to any
Jewish child’s education at religious school.
But, if there are no teachers with firsthand
experience or knowledge about Israel, how can
the religious schools be successful? My family
See Trip on Page 2
Notes from Poland: The complexity of Jewish-Polish relations
By AARON HOWARD
This is the first in a series of
articles, written during and after the
author’s two-week July visit to Poland.
Part I
Depending on what you read
and hear about the millennium-long
history of the relationship between
Jews and Poles, it was either so bad
or so good in Poland. “Whatever you
say about the complexity of that long
relationship would be true,” Robert
Gadek said.
Gadek is deputy director of the
Festiwal Kultury Zydowskiej (Jewish
Culture Festival). Held annually
in Krakow, it’s the world’s largest
Jewish festival, attracting an annual
international audience of 30,000.
That’s more than the entire Jewish
population currently residing in
Poland, estimated at 20,000.
In a recent article in the “New
Eastern Europe” magazine, Anna
Maria Orla-Bukowska wrote, “The
Jewish Culture Festival is seen as
not only ‘Jewish’ but humanistic,
universalistic. ... There’s a way of
See Poland on Page 5
New networking
group to start
at JFS Aug. 5
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Katy student wins JCC Maccabi scholarship...............
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