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How to not get sued running a bike tour Page 4 Frantic Yom Tov search for missing boy Page 14 Kosher soup kitchen in Queens, charity in Brighton Pages 5 & 9 In Good Health: special section Pages 10-12 THE JEWISH STAR VOL 9, NO 13 ■ APRIL 9, 2010 / 25 NISSAN 5770 WWW.THEJEWISHSTAR.COM Yovel for Young Israel Celebrating 50 years in Woodmere By Michael Orbach The Young Israel of Woodmere began with a phone call in 1955. The call was to Rabbi Binyamin Kamenetz- ky, then a fi rst grade rebbe in Yeshiva Toras Chaim in East New York. Marvin Bienenfeld, the father of a boy in Rabbi Kamenetzky’s class, wanted his son’s rebbe to visit the com- munity where the family lived. It was in a foreign place called ‘Long Island.’ “He tells me people are moving in, and I didn’t pay any attention,” Rabbi Kamenetzky recalled last Sunday in a lengthy telephone interview. “I have no time to visit, but I said ‘Chol Hamoed I’ll drive in.’” During his visit to the family, Rabbi Kame- netzky noticed that the only shuls, including Congregation Beth Sholom, were far away from the Beinenfeld home. “I said, ‘You have such a beautiful home, Photos courtesy of Mayer Davis it would be the nicest place to make the min- Esther and Cantor Avrum Davis were married for 64 years before her death this year. yan right after Shabbat,’” Rabbi Kamenetzky counted. “I’ll say a dvar torah.” Rabbi Kamenetzky brought unused sid- durim from his father-in-law’s shul in the Bronx. Eventually Bienenfeld and others convinced Kamenetzky to move into the When only the music is left neighborhood, agreeing to pay the $17 Rabbi Kamenetzky made each week as a shul rabbi in East New York. They also purchased the Robbed of speech, Esther Davis remembered to sing house on Barnard Avenue where Rabbi Ka- By Mayer Fertig actually composed by family members. It in 1973 after a long tenure at Congre- menetzky still lives, for $17,000. was an impromptu form of music therapy gation Shaaray Tefi lah in Far Rockaway. Eventually the shul moved to a storefront Dementia in her fi nal years robbed Es- that on one occasion yielded an amazing After Mussaf each Shabbos, Cantor Da- between Forest and Derby avenues in Wood- ther Frankel Davis of her ability to speak. result. vis would walk next door to his parents’ mere and then to a house on Cedarhurst Av- But remarkably, until several months Esther’s son is Mayer Davis, a long- apartment. enue and Peninsula Boulevard, and then to before her death on Rosh Chodesh Elul time West Hempstead resident and, since “In her last years she mostly sat there the mansion that would become Yeshiva of 5770, she still sang. Every Shabbos 1991, the cantor at Congregation Kehi- with a blank look on her face. I would South Shore, until the congregation made its morning when her son would visit, she lath Jeshurun on Manhattan’s Upper East walk in and touch her hand, and start way to the Young Israel of Woodmere’s cur- would emerge from the silence imposed Side, where he and his wife also keep an singing,” he said, and she would sing rent location on Penninsula Boulevard. by Alzheimer’s disease and join him in apartment. Mayer succeeded his father, along. singing familiar family melodies, some Cantor Avrum Davis, who began at KJ Continued on page 3 Continued on page 3 Shabbat Candlelighting: 7:09 p.m. Shabbat ends 8:11 p.m. 72 minute zman 8:41 p.m. Torah Reading Parshat Shmini Zman Kriat Shma 8:59 (Magen Avrohom) & 9:41 (GRA & Ba’al Tanya) PERMIT NO 301 NO PERMIT 11530 GARDEN CITY, NY CITY, GARDEN US POSTAGE PAID POSTAGE US PRST STD PRST 361707 2 Inside YU’s fi rst Fulbright The Jewish Star iiss ttherehere a ddoctoroctor By Jewish Star Staff Classified Ads 18 iinn tthehe hhouse?ouse? Nearly 50,000 Ameri- Crossword 14 cans — and more than Editorial 17 150,000 students from THE JEWISH STAR THE JEWISH I’m Thinking 14 around the world — have Kosher Bookworm 16 been awarded Fulbright Letters to the Editor 17 Scholarships since Presi- dent Harry S. Truman On the Calendar 6-7 signed the international Opinion 14-17 good will program into Parsha 18 law in 1946. 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