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Zakarin marks a decade at HERJC By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
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Hazzan Bonnie Zakarin, front row, in blue dress, was honored by 20 colleagues at the celebration of her 10th anniversary as a cantor at the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre on March 2.
In an evening filled with music, the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre honored Hazzan Bonnie Zakarin’s 10th anniversary with a concert that celebrated Israel. Zakarin was joined by 20 of her cantor colleagues from across the country for an evening that celebrated her accomplishment. She has a bachelor’s in Judaic studies from SUNY Binghamton, and went on to the Miller Cantorial School at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan, ContinuEd on pagE 9
Becoming better acquainted over a kidney By BRIAN NORMAN bnorman@liherald.com
Atlantic Beach resident Maggie Goodman taught everyone she knew the power of kindness when she offered to donate one of her kidneys to a co-worker in need. In late October, 2024, Goodman, 34, a sixth-grade special education teacher at I.S. 73, learned that her kidney was a compatible match for fellow middle school teacher Thomas Coveney, 47, who had been battling focal segmental glomerulosclerosis for a decade. Goodman said that she and
Coveney weren’t well acquainted, but she learned that he needed a transplant through his mother’s Facebook post, and immediately got tested to see if she was a match. Once she learned that she was, Goodman said, she was happy to help her colleague. Donating to someone in need was something she had always wanted to do. “It’s something — weirdly, perhaps — that I have always had on my bucket list,” Goodman said. “If the opportunity presented itself, I would love the opportunity to donate an organ or bone marrow or some-
thing that can help someone. I felt so lucky to be able to donate my organ to him. He deserves to be here and have a life with his wife and 7-year-old daughter.” After his kidney began failing in 2024, Coveney was reclassified as higher risk, and moved up the transplant list last August. He had formed a team of family, friends, and school colleagues to help spread awareness and find a living donor who was a viable match. Coveney emphasized that his mother, was the one who really took charge, contacting
relatives and community members on social media to try to find a match for her son. Thomas heard in January, 2025, that one of his co-workers was going to be the one to donate a kidney, and was shocked when he discovered who it was. “My friends told me that it was going to be someone from
work who was donating, but I didn’t know who,” Coveney recounted. “Then, on a Friday about three or four weeks ago, Maggie came into my classroom with a jar of kidney beans, and asked if I would take her kidney. I think there aren’t a lot of people on this earth like that. She’s one of the ContinuEd on pagE 11