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Dunking on antisemitism Five Towns teens honor Bondi Beach victims at Nets game halftime tribute The Nets roster includes two rookies from Israel, Danny Wolf and Ben Saraf, whose Nearly 18,000 people attend- presence has inspired young ed a tribute to the 15 victims of Jews with the message not to the Bondi Beach massacre in compromise their faith to Sydney, Australia, at Brook- achieve their dreams. That lyn’s Barclays Center just days inspired the CTEEN players in the halftime game, after last month’s who included Long shooting, and teens Beach’s Dillon from the Chabad Weintraub. Teen chapters in The 10th-grader the Five Towns and at Long Beach Long Beach joined High School who the Chabad Teen played point guard, Network, known as said that it was an CTEEN, in solidaropportunity to repity as they rememresent Judaism, bered those who and that lighting a died. menorah in a The tribute took venue like Barclays place during halfshowed the world time of the Dec. 18 that “we’re just Brooklyn Netslike everyone else.” Miami Heat game. “I think it’s It featured a short DILLoN WEINtRAUB important for Jewgame played by ish people to be CTEEN members, Point guard represented,” as well as the lighting of a giant basketball meno- Weintraub said. “The more rah watched by some 180 teens they see us, the more they can recognize that we’re people, and their families. The menorah was lit by too.” Weintraub, who also plays 14-year-old Brooklyn native Eli Drizin, a nephew of Rabbi Eli lacrosse at Long Beach High, Schlanger, one of two Chabad said he felt that the game prerabbis who were killed in the sented an opportunity to showattack. CoNtiNueD oN page 9
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Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum blowing the shofar in honor of the Jewish New Year last September in Long Beach. He died on Dec. 16, at age 75.
Temple Israel’s retired rabbi, Jay Rosenbaum, dies at 75 By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, who guided Temple Israel of Lawrence for 19 years, helping to shape one of Long Island’s most prominent reformed congregations through periods of growth, transition and reflection until he retired in 2021, died on Dec. 16 at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Forest Hills. He was 75. Though Rosenbaum had suffered a stroke in October, his death was unexpected, according to his son, Jordan. Rosenbaum was born in Brooklyn on April 17, 1950, and graduated from Midwood High School while also attending Jewish day school. At the University of Cincinnati, he
took part in a dual-degree program with Hebrew Union College, and received his ordination in 1975. Rosenbaum met his future wife, Amy [Pincus], in Brooklyn when he was in his early 20s and she was in her late teens. They were married in 1974, and Amy died in December 2020, at age 66. The Rosenbaums moved to Woodmere in 1977, when he joined Temple Israel as an assistant to Rabbi Joel Zion. Rosenbaum became the synagogue’s senior rabbi in 2002, when it was seeking a leader who could balance tradition with a modern spiritual vision. “The real thing I learned from having a dad as a rabbi is that nobody is perfect — not CoNtiNueD oN page 15
t’s important for Jewish people to be represented. The more they see us, the more they can recognize that we’re people, too.