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Former E.M. rabbi honored for his 13 years Kitchen, a nonprofit that provides meals in response to humanitarian crises. After the Last weekend, Temple B’nai Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas Torah honored Rabbi Daniel in Israel, he helped raise thousands of dollars for relief Bar-Nahum for 13 years of ef forts, and took teaching Torah and part in a solidarity preserving Jewish mission last tradition on the December to disSouth Shore. tribute the aid. Bar-Nahum, 44, The celebration was ordained in of his 13th year 2 0 1 2 by H e b rew be gan Friday, as Union College in local officials gathManhattan, and ered at the temple that same year he to mark the milebegan serving as stone. Among those assistant rabbi at p r e s e n t i n g B a rTemple Emanu-El Nahum with citaof East Meadow. He tions were State was promoted to Sen. Steve Rhoads, rabbi the following Assemblyman year. In 2018, he Thomas McKevitt, assumed the leadNassau County ership at Temple B’nai Torah after DANIEl BAR-NAHuM Executive Br uce Blakeman, county i t s m e r g e r w i t h Rabbi, Legislators Michael Temple Emanu-El. Temple B’nai Torah Giangregorio, John Over the years, Ferretti and Seth B a r- N a h u m h a s been active in humanitarian Koslow, and Hempstead Town efforts both local and global. He Councilman Dennis Dunne. On Saturday, the congregatraveled to the Texas-Mexico border to help feed migrants tion hosted a gala dinner in the with Team Brownsville, a vol- rabbi’s honor at the Plainview unteer group that supports asy- Jewish Center. Bar-Nahum said it has been lum seekers with meals and supplies, and World Central Continued on page 4
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Terrific Kids honored at board meeting The East Meadow Board of Education recognized the district’s Terrific Kids during its April 9 board meeting at the Salisbury School. W.T. Clarke Middle School’s Terrific Kids for the months of December, January, February and March above with district leadership.
Lectec wins $100K investment through the ‘Shark Tank’ show By JoSEPH D’AlESSANDRo jdalessandro@liherald.com
Lectec — a leading innovator in STEM education whose director of growth, Daniel Tellerman, is an East Meadow resident — scored a hefty $100,000 investment on “Shark Tank” by pitching an electric skateboard as an educational tool. For Tellerman, Lectec’s success on “Shark Tank,” which aired in February on ABC, is a dream come true after the company’s representatives faced off against the business-savvy panel of five investors, called sharks. “It was really an amazing experience,” he said. “We’ve been working so hard on this project for the last two years now, and to get the vali-
dation that we did from the sharks is just the most incredible feeling.” The sizeable investment from one of the sharks, Robert Herjavec, will allow the New York City-based small business to take the next step in its expansion into schools across the country. “We are incredibly dedicated to this vision that came out of a dusty old warehouse, to change education and provide students with opportunities to be engaged that they wouldn’t have anywhere else, and we believe that skateboards are the answer to that,” Tellerman previously told the Herald. Lectec’s Chief Technology Officer Luke St. Amand and Chief Executive Officer Jared Ebersole pitched the concept to the sharks, demonContinued on page 2
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