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Diaz endorsement gives Cohen a ‘clean sweep’

By HAYDEE CAMACHO The Andrew Cohen for City Council express gathered more steam after Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. endorsed him in his bid for the District 11 Council seat on Thursday, March 28th. The two toured the Kingsbridge area, discussing concerns with area residents. Diaz introduced Cohen to constituents as “your next City Councilman” and urged them to vote for him.

“What I’m concerned about is that in every single City Council seat here in the Bronx we have individuals we can partner with,“ said Diaz. “ We need individuals who are intelligent, who have a strong record of caring for the community they want to represent and in Andrew Cohen we certainly have that individual.”

Diaz lauded Cohen’s work as a clerk for a Bronx Supreme Court justice, his work with Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz, community board work and volunteer efforts with Friends of Van Cortlandt Park.

“Andrew Cohen is someone who understands what it’s going to take for us to bring this district to the next level. He’s someone who is going to partner with me for our economic development,” said Diaz referring to two highly

anticipated development projects in the area , the Broadway Plaza retail mall at 230th Street and Broadway, as well as the BJ’s under construction at the site of the former Stella D’oro factory on 237th Street. He estimated that the Broadway Plaza project would bring 200 to 300 jobs to the area, while BJs would provide an additional 400 to 500 jobs. “We want to make sure that companies like Stella D’oro who didn’t believe in us and left eat crow because of the wonderful things happening in our borough,” he quipped.

“Your support is particularly meaningful to me,” responded Cohen. “We share an agenda here including your work on a living wage, support for paid sick leave and your proposal for a gun registry. We share values. “ Diaz has partnered with Peter Vallone, Chairman of the City Council Committee on Public Safety to support a statewide gun offender registry which would expand on the current registry created by Mayor Bloomberg, Speaker Quinn and Vallone in 2006. The new statewide registry would include similar reporting requirements to New York State’s existing sex offender registry.

It would keep the names of

Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. makes it clear who he is supporting in the City Council race. individuals convicted of crimes involving guns on the registry for at least 10 years and require offenders to check in regularly with local police. Failure to perform these obligations would be considered a felony level crime.

Cohen responded to opponent Clifford Stanford’s asser-

tions that as a Riverdalian, Cohen would be unresponsive to the needs of other communities in the district such as Bedford Park, and Norwood, whose needs, he claimed, take a back seat to those of Riverdale. “I’ve been to all the districts from corner to corner meeting people,” said Cohen. “I

plan to be a district-wide councilman. I look forward to being a part of a new generation of leadership.”

“Andrew Cohen is going to be that individual who continues to unite this council district and the different neighborhoods,” added Diaz.

Jullian Sweeney, local Lego hobbyist, wins prestigious consultant post

By PAULETTE SCHNEIDER Imagination, skill and personality won Riverdalian Jullian Sweeney a spot on the 12-member Junior Construction Panel for Legoland Discovery Center Westchester, a $12 million, 32,300-square-foot indoor entertainment venue that opened last week at Ridge Hill in Yonkers.

The 11-year-old, with the help of parents Sean Sweeney and Cynthia Guaba-Sweeney, produced a video showcasing his Lego creations and entered it in a contest seeking youngsters for the new store’s “creative team.” More than 120 Lego enthusiasts from the metropolitan area proffered video submissions.

“I want to be on the Junior Construction Panel because I’m creative, hard-working, and I love to build,” states Jullian, in a jacket and tie, at the opening of the one-minute-ten-second video. “I’ve been building for about four years.”

As a team member, Jullian is expected to participate in classes with the store’s master model builder, remain on call to preview new exhibits, and suggest improvements to activities and rides before they’re introduced to the public.

For example, “There’s going to be a new 4D movie in the summer, and they’ll

call us to be the first ones to see it,” he explained.

Jullian is a sixth-grader in a class of 17 kids at Manhattan East School for Arts and Academics, a middle school on East 100th Street in Manhattan that enrolls around 260 students.

A special high school comes next, and test preparation is already underway.

“We’re working on that very hard,” Guaba-Sweeney said.

Jullian attends the Fieldson Enrichment Program, a Saturday course that prepares middle schoolers for the entrance exams they’ll need to take if they hope to attend a specialized city high school or a competitive independent school.

He spent his K to 5 days as one of the first students at the AmPark Neighborhood School, a small Sedgwick Avenue-area public school that fosters creativity—including building skills.

He used to play the violin but has switched to the trombone and is now considering joining the school jazz band, according to his mom.

“He’s a straight-A student,” she said, citing a recent report showing A plusses in math, English, science and journalism, with A’s in everything else.

Jullian Sweeney The product of hand-picked schools that foster individuality, Jullian gets plenty of support at home as well.

“It’s true what they say,” Guaba-Swee-

ney continued. Parental involvement “makes a big difference in their educational experience.”

So does self-motivation and diligence.

“I’m always doing homework, basically,” Jullian admitted. “It’s kind of annoying— even my brother says, ‘Every time I see you, you’re always doing homework.’”

But when that’s all done, he can work on his Lego creations, augmenting and embellishing existing pieces while creating new ones. The building materials are neatly organized in bins inside his bedroom.

He and the other Junior Construction Panel members were on hand for last week’s grand opening at the local Legoland.

“I stood outside for a long time while the people were opening it up and making speeches,” Jullian said.

A wall—made of Lego bricks, of course—hid the entrance from the public.

Then, finally, a yellow Lego mascot figure “crashed through the wall, and then we all clapped,” he recalled.

As for a career, Jullian has pondered diverse options. “Maybe a sports player, a Lego designer or a singer,” he said. “One of those three.”

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Different views on mandated sick leave

By HAYDEE CAMACHO Last week’s City Council’s proposal that would require businesses with at least 20 employees, including part-time workers, to provide up to five days a year off with pay for illness has created controversy among the small business community.

“There is controversy that surrounds this,” said John Bonizio, owner of three Metro Optics Eyewear stores in the Bronx and Chairman of the Westchester Square Business Improvement District. “I think that the compromise that was reached last week with several different sources was fair.” “I’m not opposed to the idea of sick leave, “ he added. “I pay my 40 employees a competitive wage, 15 personal days a year, 401K plans and a health care plan. I do it because it’s my responsibility. But I understand there are a lot of people who don’t look at life that way.”

The law would go into effect in April 2014 and would be extended to businesses with 15 or more employees by Oct. 1, 2015.

It would also allow workers in the smallest businesses like bodegas to take days off with no pay without fear over losing their jobs when they are sick. Although Mayor Bloomberg said he’ll veto the bill, there are enough votes in the City Council for the two-thirds majority override of his veto.

Bonizio said he was opposed to earlier versions of the proposal because the emphasis was not on providing sick pay, but on governmental monitoring and fining businesses in New York City, similar to the way restaurants are inspected and fined.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio recently released a report, Borough Bias: How the Bloomberg Administration Drains Outer Borough Business, which exposed the increasing inspections and fines that disproportionately hit small businesses in the outer boroughs, particularly in the Bronx, which was hit with twice the citywide average in fines.

He blasted de Blasio for opposing the bill for political gain. “DeBlasio is crying tears over this because this was going to be his wedge against front runner Christine Quinn. He didn’t really care about people’s ability to get sick pay.”

While Bonizio praised DeBlasio’s report as “wonderful,” he criticized him for not being vocal about earlier versions of the proposal which would have required more government agency oversight. “He didn’t say anything about the fact that it would have given the Department of Health so many times more power that he was already complaining about because that would have diluted his ability to fight Christine Quinn.”

Bonivio has been following the progress of the bill and also gave his views to the City Council. He noted that previous versions would have allowed the Department of Health to enter a business and audit payroll books or write a fine for not posting the sick day regulations. He said the proposal now calls for oversight by the Department of Consumer Affairs who may only come into a business after receiving an employee complaint.

“Now it’s fair to business, as well as to people who don’t have sick pay,” said Bonizio. “For the first time in a long time, I’m seeing something coming out of City Hall that had the support of most people on either side. “ Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz expressed his approval of the bill. “The ‘Paid Sick Leave’ legislative compromise will provide economic security and peace of mind for an estimated one million New Yorkers, who will now have the fundamental right to take a compensated day off when they or a family member is sick without worrying about losing their paycheck, or worse, their job.”

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz echoed

his support. “At last there is an agreement to provide paid sick leave to countless thousands of workers in New York City. This is a huge victory. While it doesn't contain everything that I wanted to see, it is certainly an enormous step in the right direction.

But for owners of The Shamrock Inn, located in Pelham Bay, the bill threatens their ability to grow their restaurant business. “If you have a staff of 20, that’s 100 sick days a year,” said Steven Lawless “Everyone is going to maximize their sick days. No business can carry that. Ms. Quinn is pushing her issue to become mayor. “ “They have no mercy on the small businesses,” added his wife and co-owner Rosetta Lawless. “We are struggling as it is with this recession. It’s help they should be giving us to employ more people and getting this thing going again.”

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Bronx- Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (D-Bronx) announced the state has passed a third consecutive on-time budget, which closes a $1.3 billion budget deficit and includes a $141.3 billion spending plan that increases aid for local schools and community colleges while also investing in infrastructure and affordable housing. The passage of the State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2013-2014 Budget also includes tax relief for some working families and allocates federal funding to help pay for the clean-up following Superstorm Sandy.

Improvements to Education The SFY 2013-2014 allocates 21.2 billion in aid for local school districts for the 2013-2014 school year. Formula Aid will be distributed in the amount of $20.8 billion, a $936 million increase from the 2012-2013 allocation. The budget agreement also includes $25 million for the creation of additional half-day and fullday prekindergarten slots; $20 million for Extended Learning Time; $14.26 million for Teacher Resource and Computer Training Centers; $86.9 million in Aid to Public Libraries; and $137.5 million in Aid to nonpublic schools.

The SFY 2013-2014 budget also improves higher education by raising the community college base aid to $2,422 per full-time equivalent (FTE), a $150 increase per FTE. The budget plan also maintains $3.1 million in child care services at state and community colleges for student parents, a 3% across the board increase for opportunity programs and a $98.9 million appropriation to supportive services for economically and educationally disadvantaged residents for the 2013-2014 year.

Relief for Families

The budget plan includes more than $21 million for safety net programs, $10 million for services that support children and families and restores $1.3 million for the Youth Development Program. The plan also restores more than $21 million for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs and makes major restorations to Facilitated Enrollment ($7.3 million); Advanced Technology Training and Information Networking (ATTAIN) ($4.1 million); Nurse-Family Partnership ($2 million); Non-Residential Domestic Violence ($1.2 million); and Settlement Houses ($1 million).

Improvements to Affordable Housing The 2013-2014 SFY Budget would increase affordable housing options by financing acquisitions and renovations totaling $1 billion over 5 years, which will create more than 14,300 affordable housing units. The program will also revitalize 45 Mitchell-Lama housing projects and create over 5,000 new affordable housing units through community development programs. The budget agreement also includes $5.8 million to fund the Tenant Protection Unit; $10 million to preserve the Neighborhood Preservation Program; and $17.6 million in funding this year to rehabilitate and improve existing Mitchell-Lama housing.

Failures with the Minimum Wage and Funding for Developmental Disabilities The 2013-2014 SFY Budget will raise the minimum wage incrementally to $9.00 over the course of the next 2 years, but will not actually reach the $9.00 mark till December 31, 2015. The minimum wage will also not go up with indexing. The budget agreement also

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made significant cuts to funding for those with Developmental Disabilities, despite strong support for the funding from both the Assembly and Senate.

“This budget addresses many of the priorities of the Assembly Democrats by increasing funding for public education, healthcare and affordable housing,” Dinowitz said. “I am pleased that we were able to increase the minimum wage, but not all at once and not tied to indexing which is a major disappointment. I am also very disappointed in the funding for developmental disabilities, which was cut by a huge amount despite the efforts of the Assembly and the Senate to restore full funding. These cuts will have a terrible, painful impact on many New Yorkers who are in desperate need of these important service.”

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Around the schools...

Manhattan College

The keynote speaker for the college’s 171st commencement will be Dr. Charles H. Thornton, chairman of Charles H. Thornton & Company, LLC, a management and strategic consulting firm.

Thornton received a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree from Manhattan College in 1961 and he will receive an honorary doctorate in engineering at the commencement event.

In 1993, Thornton founded the Architecture, Construction and Engineering (A.C.E.) Mentor Program, a nonprofit that has offered guidance and training to more than 60,000 high school students in 200 U.S. cities and has provided more than $12 million in scholarships. Many of the scholarships have been awarded to disadvantaged students. For this initiative, Thornton received the Hoover Medal, bestowed by the American Society of Civil Engineers in recognition of humanitarians. In 2011, A.C.E. was honored with the White House’s Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. The scholarship program was developed in collaboration with Manhattan College’s School of Engineering.

One of the world’s preeminent structural engineers, Thornton is a founding principal and former co-chairman of the international consulting firm Thornton Tomasetti, a worldwide leader in engineering design. He has been involved in the design, construction and analysis of billions of dollars worth of award-winning projects worldwide that have set industry standards for innovative thinking and creativity. Designed facilities include hospitals, arenas, high-rise buildings and airports.

Thornton led the design of two of world’s tallest structures, the Taipei 101 in Taiwan and the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia. He also led the investigations into the collapse of the Hartford Coliseum Space truss roof in Hartford, Connecticut, and of the Pleasants Power Station cooling tower in Willow Island, West Virginia—considered the largest construction accident in U.S. history.

Thornton is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the National Academy of Construction. He is also chairman emeritus of the Salvadori Center, an organization that educates more than 2,000 New York City middle school students each year in math and science using architectural and engineering principles. His is a former member of the college’s board of trustees.

“When we say that Manhattan is ‘the College that builds New York,’ we’re talking about people like Dr. Thornton, though in his case we need to say ‘the College that builds all over the world,’” said Dr. Brennan O’Donnell, president of Manhattan College. “He has not only had a great career as an engineer but has also worked tirelessly as an educator and mentor to encourage the next generation of engineers, architects and construction professionals.”

At the commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 19, nearly 750 undergraduates will be awarded degrees in 40 major fields of study from the college’s schools of arts, business, education and health, engineering and science.

College of Mount Saint Vincent

Psychology majors Alexa Taveras (’14) and Julian Torres (’13) have been accepted to present their research at the Second Annual Undergraduate Research Conference to be held at Mercy College in

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Dobbs Ferry, New York, on April 12. Their poster, titled “Understanding Object Representation of Mother, Father, and God Among Individuals with Psychosis,” was chosen for the first presentation session, which focuses on the behavioral sciences.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, has announced that Tong Chang, Shirley Du and Ethan Illfelder were named to the dean’s list for the fall 2012 semester. To qualify, students must be registered for a full-time course load while maintaining a minimum GPA of 3.0 with no grades below C. Rensselaer, America’s oldest technological research university, enrolls more than 5,000 undergraduates and more than 1,000 graduate students on its 275-acre hilltop campus overlooking the Hudson River in the heart of New York State’s capital region.

It offers more than 145 programs at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels from its schools of engineering; science; architecture; humanities, arts, and social sciences; and the Lally School of Management and Technology. Interdisciplinary degrees are also offered in information technology and web science. Students are also encouraged to work in other interdisciplinary programs that combine scholarly work from several departments and schools. The Lally School of Management and Technology was ranked by U.S. News and World Report as one of the nation’s top 50 business schools, and the undergraduate engineering programs were ranked 23rd in 2012.

The Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut, has announced that senior Emelynn Abreu was named to the high honor roll for the winter 2012 term. Loomis Chaffee, founded in 1914, is an internationally recognized coeducational college preparatory school for students in grades 9 through 12. It enrolls 650 students from 31 countries and 30 U.S. states, regardless of religious or political beliefs, national origin, or financial resources. Loomis Chaffee fosters critical thinking and a global perspective in talented students and promotes active learning within a respectful and civil community. This year, the school awarded $7.7 million in financial aid to 34 percent of its student body.

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Rabbi Herschel Schacter dies at 95 ation hall. He helped to resettle thousands of Jews, personally leading a Kindertransport from Buchenwald to Switzerland and participating in the transport of other orphans to France and Palestine.

Among the youngsters he led out of despair were a child named Lulek, who became Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, the former Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, and a teenager named Elie Wiesel.

His funeral service, led by Rabbi Rosenblatt, was held at Riverdale Jewish Center. Rabbis refrain from giving eulogies during joyous times in the Hebrew calendar—including this month of Passover—so several Riverdale rabbis read psalms in lieu of speeches.

Among the readers was Rabbi Hain of Young Israel Ohav Zedek, Rabbi Willig of Young Israel of Riverdale, and Rabbi Exler of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, who called the service “quite powerful and moving.”

There was even some music--Rabbi Gidon Rothstein, who arranged weekly Friday night services in the Schachters’ home while Rabbi Schacter was ill, sang a liturgical song, and the audience joined in.

The sanctuary was filled with neighbors, including congregant Sura Jeselsohn. “Despite not having a personal relationship with the family myself, when someone of that stature—a man who recognized what needed to be done and not only had the authority to deal with it, but did so—you attend his funeral to lend him that ‘last full measure’ of honor which he so appropri-

ately deserved,” she said.

Rabbi Schacter spent his final days at the Metropolitan Jewish Health System’s Zicklin Residence at Atria Riverdale, where he was loved by the staff who cared for him, both at the facility and in his home.

Rabbi Herschel Schacter is survived by his wife, Pnina G. Schacter; his children, Rabbi Jacob J. and Yocheved Schacter, Miriam Schacter and Dr. Benjamin R. Gampel; grandchildren, Dr. Leah and Rabbi Jonathan Knapp, Sarah and Corey Tarzik, Hannah Schacter-Gampel, and Abe Schacter-Gampel; and great-grandchildren, Adina, Esti, Shira, Eli Knapp.

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Rabbi Schachter leads a Passover service for inmates at the then newly-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.

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RCS spring concert on May 4 The Riverdale Choral Society will present its final concert of the 2012-2013 season on May 4. Their spring concert entitled ‘Paris Lights: Fauré, Boulanger And Duruflé’ will feature Requiem by Maurice Duruflé as the centerpiece of the program.

As Music Director John Lettieri explained his choices; ‘I wanted Requiem to be the core, and then as I looked at the work of other French composers, I found and added in pieces that are connected with it by time and place. All the composers represented on the program were working in Paris in the early 20th century and would have been listening to and influenced by each other’s work.

I thought that was an intriguing program idea.’ MunTzung Wong will accompany on piano, Timothy Brunfield will play the recently refurbished organ with Susan Poliacik on cello. Soloists include alto Elyse Mendelson.

The concert will take place at Christ Church Riverdale on Saturday May 4, at 7:30 PM. The church’s address is 5030 Henry Hudson Parkway at West 252nd Street. It is located on the northbound Henry Hudson Parkway service road where parking is available. To travel by car, take the Henry Hudson Parkway to the West 246th Street Exit. To travel by public transportation, take the #1 train to West 231st Street, then take bus Bx7 or Bx10 to West 252nd Street or take the

BxM1 or BxM2 express bus to West 252nd Street.

Admission is $20. With the Bronx Cultural Card, admission is $18.

To purchase tickets and for more information: visit www. riverdalechoral.org or call 718543-2219.

Yom Hashoah Observance at CSAIR

Yom Hashoah will be observed at the Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale, 475 West 250th Street, Riverdale, on Sunday, April 7, beginning at 7:00 P.M. Yom Hashoah remembers the victims of the Holocaust. The program at CSAIR will be led by Rabbi Barry Dov Katz and Cantor Elizabeth Stevens and will include Maariv (evening) services, a recitation of names of family members of CSAIR congregants who perished in the Shoah, and a reading of excerpts from Megillat Hashoah.

This year’s program will also include an Intimate Voices performance of Gideon Klein’s String Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello, which was composed by Klein while he was imprisoned at Terezin and was completed just days before he was sent to Auschwitz at age 25.

The program is free and open to the public.

For more information, call the synagogue office at 718543-8400.

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By PAULETTE SCHNEIDER Rabbi Herschel Schacter, the U.S. Army chaplain who rushed to the just–liberated Buchenwald concentration camp to bring the news of freedom to survivors, died in Riverdale on Thursday, March 21.

Schacter was the first to be ordained by Modern Orthodox movement founder Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

For more than half a century, he led the Mosholu Jewish Center on Hull Avenue in Norwood.

The once-thriving congregation disbanded in 1999, when all but a few members had moved from the area. The building was sold to the Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and it became a Head Start site the following year.

Rabbi Schacter was chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations from 1967 to 1969. Current Conference leaders Richard Stone and Malcolm Hoenlein stated, “Rabbi Schacter was an exemplary leader who often spoke of his deep commitment to Jewish inclusiveness and unity.”

He chaired the Chaplaincy Commission of the Jewish Welfare Board and was director of rabbinic services at Yeshiva University.

Rabbi Schacter was founding chair of the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry. In this regard, he was a member of the first rabbinic delegation to the USSR in 1956 and served as President Richard Nixon’s advisor on Soviet Jewry matters.

After World War II, he remained at Buchenwald and led services in a former Nazi recre-

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CSAIR Scholar-in-Residence Weekend with Dr. Wertheimer

Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale (CSAIR) will hold a Scholar-in-Residence Weekend with Dr. Jack A. Wertheimer on Friday, April 5 and Saturday, April 6, 2013.

Wertheimer is the Joseph and Martha Mendelson Professor of American Jewish History at The Jewish Theological Seminary. His area of expertise is modern Jewish history, with a particular focus on trends in the religious, educational, and organizational sectors of American Jewish life since World War II. Friday night’s program is called, ‘The Ten Commandments of America’s Jews.’

Dr. Wertheimer will explore the new vocabulary that telegraphs a set of assumptions about the nature of Jewish Community, religion and the Jewish people, offering an insight into what moves American Jews and the world view that Jewish institutions of all kinds must address.

The talk will take place after Shabbat Services (at 6 pm) and Shabbat Dinner (at 7 pm). Pre-paid reservations for dinner are required, but the talk is free and open to all. To make reservations for dinner, go to: www.csair.org.

On Saturday, April 6, Wertheimer will discuss, ‘The New American Judaism’ following Shabbat services and Kiddush (about 12:30 pm). Surveying the Jewish religious scene, Dr. Wertheimer will examine the strengths and weaknesses of different religious movements, and identify pockets of energy that are animating the new American Judaism. Efforts to renew synagogue life and Jewish learning will be highlighted, as will be programs to reconnect Jews to the Jewish people.

Participants will have the opportunity to express concerns and exchange ideas.

This talk is free and open to all.

This weekend is sponsored by Bruce and Linda Hack.

For more information on this program, as well as other adult education opportunities at CSAIR, call the Synagogue office at 718-543-8400 or visit the synagogue website, www.csair.org.

CSAIR is located at 475 West 250th Street at the Henry Hudson Parkway.

April events at the MC Holocaust Center

Manhattan College's Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education (HGI) Center will be significantly active in April, sponsoring a variety of lectures and events beginning April 4.

'The HGI Center remains committed

to the events this spring that encourage social justice, courage of survival and commemorating the Holocaust,' said Mehnaz Afridi, Ph.D., director of the HGI Center and assistant professor of religious studies at Manhattan College.

Following is the HGI Center's April lineup. Each event is free and open to the public.

Thursday, April 4, 7 p.m.: Fifth annual Frederick M. Schweitzer Lecture. Alan E. Steinweis, Ph.D., the Leonard and Carolyn Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies and director for the Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont, will discuss how the Kristallnacht fit into the unfolding anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi regime. He will further analyze how the event continues to loom so large in the collective memories of Jews, Germans and others. Smith Auditorium.

Wednesday, April 10, 4 p.m.: Author Nina Wolff Feld will discuss her book Someday You Will Understand: My Father's Private WWII. Feld will tell her father's story of running from the Nazis in Europe and eventually becoming a solider in the U.S. Army. O'Malley Library, Alumni Room Tuesday, April 16, 4 p.m.: Commemoration event in honor of Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. Undergraduates will commemorate Holocaust survivor Lily Margules with stories and other readings extracted from Elie Wiessel's Night and Primo Levil's Survival.

O'Malley Library, Alumni Room.

Thursday, April 25, 7 p.m.: Author Jasha Levi will discuss his autobiography, The Last Exile: The Tapestry of a Life. The book depicts his experiences growing up in Europe during World War I and II in the midst of the Holocaust, and continues with his transition to the United States as an adult. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Italian-American service organizations Alpha Phi Delta and UNICO National.

Smith Auditorium.

For more information about the HGI events, contact Mehnaz Afridi at (718) 8627284 or mehnaz.afridi@manhattan.edu.

Service in Remembrance of the Holocaust

Zachor - Remember. On Friday, April 5th at 7:30 p.m. Congregation Shaarei Shalom shall include a commemoration of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, during its Shabbat evening service.

Each participant will have the opportunity to light a memorial candle to remember those who perished during the reign of terror that swept through Europe from 1939-1945.

This especially moving service will be led by Rabbi Steven D. Burton and Cantor Ronald J. Broden. Special musical accompaniment will be offered by pianist Walter Winterfeldt. While in previous years Shaarei Shalom's own survivors have shared their experiences, this year its congregants will participate in the service with the reading of the recorded memories of childhood survivors as found in Anita Brostoff's Flame of Memory.

The service will be conducted in the congregation's sanctuary located at 5919 Riverdale Avenue. The community is cordially invited to attend.

Congregation Shaarei Shalom is a Reform Jewish synagogue. It offers a contemporary and participatory worship experience and prides itself on its inclusiveness of all members of the Riverdale community, regardless of marital status, sexual orientation, race, age, or creed. It is dedicated to embracing the diversity within the Reform Jewish movement.

For further information about the congregation, this service, membership, its Religious School, or any of the many adult program offerings, please contact the congregation at (718) 796-0305, e-mail the congregation at: shaareishalomriverdale@ gmail.com or visit its website at www. shaareishalomriverdale.org

Library Reading Hour sponsored by Rotary Club

Youngsters 3-12 years old are invited to participate in the Reading Program on Saturday, April 6, 2013 at the Kingsbridge Library, 291 W. 231st St., 1-1:45PM. Readers will be grouped by skill level

and encouraged to read, helped with pronunciation and word understanding, and for those without reading skills, interpret pictures. There is no charge for participation.

The Rotary Club of Riverdale is part of Rotary International and sponsors the library reading project as a local community service. Volunteers who would like to help in this once monthly program, first Saturday of the month, except for holiday weekends, are invited to contact Karen Pesce, 718-549-4469.

Flea market at St. John's Church

St. John's Church will host a flea market on Saturday, April 6, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The sale will be held at the Old St. John's School located at 3030 Godwin Terrace in the Bronx.

Clothes, jewelry, accessories and brica-brac will be sold at bargain prices.

Free parking will also be available so get there early and snare yourself a great find.

For more information, please call 718543-3003.

Giant Family Play Date at the Y

The Riverdale Y will host a Giant Family Play Date on Sunday, April 7 from 10:00am-12:00pm. The entire community is invited.

Join our growing family play dates where families and children gather in our large Multi Purpose Room to fun and activities. The room is outfitted with inflatable toys, basketball hoops, scooters and art activities. refreshments are available. This is a great opportunity for young families with their children to interact. For more information contact Wendy Pollock, Early Childhood Director at 718-548-8200, ext. 208. The Y is located at 5625 Arlington Avenue.

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WRITER’S CIRCLE 1 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Are you an aspiring writer? Join our writer’s group to share your work and get feedback from other members. All types of writing are welcome, whether it’s fiction, memoir, poetry, or other! For more information, call 718-548-5656.

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TINNITUS SUPPORT GROUP 6 p.m. Church of the Mediator 260 West 231st Street All are welcome to join Mr. Stephen Geller Katz, LCSW-R, founder of the Manhattan Tinnitus Cognitive Center. For more information, please contact Dr. K. Nabinet on 718-410-2301.

story of running from the Nazis in Europe and eventually becoming a solider in the U.S. Army. For info about the HGI events, contact Mehnaz Afridi at (718) 862-7284 or mehnaz.afridi@manhattan.edu.

Kingsbridge

CB8 MEETING 7:30 p.m. Ft. Independence Community Center 3350 Bailey Avenue Board Meeting of Community Board 8. For more information, call 718-884-3959.

TOASTMASTERS CLUB MEETING 7 p.m. Riverdale Neighborhood House 5521 Mosholu Avenue Bronx Toastmasters Club of Riverdale invites new members to join at their free meeting. For more information, call 718796-6671 or visit www.bronxtoastmastersclub.org.

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SCRABBLE 2 p.m. Riverdale Branch Library 5540 Mosholu Avenue If words work you up and crossword puzzles keep you going, come to Riverdale and share your passion with friends every Tuesday afternoon for a lively game of Scrabble. Pre-registration required. For more information, call 718-549-1212.

WRITING MEMOIRS 11 a.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street This free workshop is open to adults 55+. This project will use creative writing, storytelling, and group sharing to help facilitate reminiscence and art-making. Forinfo, call 718-548-5656.

Thursday, April 11

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BOOK DISCUSSION 4 p.m. Manhattan College O’Malley Library Alumni Room Author Nina Wolff Feld will discuss her book Someday You Will Understand: My Father’s Private WWII. Feld will tell her father’s

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TEEN STUDY LOUNGE 4 p.m. Riverdale Branch Library 5540 Mosholu Avenue Teen Study Lounge is a place where Teens can work with

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CB8 MEETING 7:30 p.m. Riverdale YM-YWHA 5625 Arlington Avenue Meeting of the Land Use Committee of Community Board 8. For more information, call 718-884-3959.

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FLEA MARKET 10 a.m. Schervier Apartments 2995 Independence Avenue Tenants at the Schervier Apartments are having their Annual Flea Market at the Community Room located on the Ground Floor. All are welcome to attend.

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LECTURE 7 p.m. Manhattan College Smith Auditorium Fifth annual Frederick M. Schweitzer Lecture. Alan E. Steinweis, Ph.D., will discuss how the Kristallnacht fit into the unfolding anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi regime. For more information about the HGI events, contact Mehnaz Afridi at (718) 862-7284 or mehnaz.afridi@manhattan.edu.

Friday, April 5 Riverdale

YOM HASHOAH 7:30 p.m. Congregation Shaarei Shalom 5919 Riverdale Avenue Congregation Shaarei Shalom shall include a commemoration of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, during its Shabbat evening service. For more information, call 718-796-0305.

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Saturday, April 6 Kingsbridge

FLEA MARKET 9 a.m. Old St. John’s School 3030 Godwin Terrace Clothes, jewelry, accessories and bric-a-brac will be sold at bargain prices. Free parking will also be available so get there early and snare yourself a great find. For more information, please call 718-543-3003.

“The work of Chaim Grade, by its vision and scope, establishes him as one of the greatest — if not the greatest — of contemporary Yiddish novelists. Surely he is the most authentic.”

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READ ALOUD 1 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Rotary Club of Riverdale Read Aloud for children and adults. For ages 5 to 12 years. For more information, call 718-548-5656.

Sunday, April 7

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Riverdale

GIANT FAMILY PLAY DATE 10 a.m. Riverdale YM-YWHA 5625 Arlington Avenue Families and children gather in the large Multi Purpose Room to fun and activities. The room is outfitted with inflatable toys, basketball hoops, scooters and art activities. Refreshments are available. For more information contact Wendy Pollock, Early Childhood Director at 718-548-8200, ext. 208.

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MOVIE & DISCUSSION 5 p.m. Riverdale YM-YWHA 5625 Arlington Avenue The Riverdale Y will have a movie and discussion called “Ingelore… The Legend,“ overcoming hatred, celebrating love and hope in celebration of Yom Hashoah. For more information, contact Mr. Friedmann at 917-667-3037.

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YOM HASHOAH 7 p.m. Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel 475 West 250th Street Yom Hashoah remembers the victims of the Holocaust.

The program at CSAIR will be led by Rabbi Barry Dov Katz and Cantor Elizabeth Stevens and will include Maariv (evening) services, a recitation of names of family members of CSAIR congregants who perished in the Shoah, and a reading of excerpts from Megillat Hashoah. For more information, call 718- 543-8400.

Monday, April 8 Riverdale

PORTRAIT DRAWING 11 a.m. Riverdale Branch Library 5540 Mosholu Avenue This free drawing workshop taught by Josh Millis, is an introduction and investigation into portrait drawing as a subject in both historical and contemporary art. Participants who must be ages 55+ will be chosen by lottery. Please call the branch at 718-549-1212 to add your name to the list.

A Celebration of the Life and Works of Bronx Native Author, Chaim Grade SPEAKERS Rabbi Judith Lewis, Riverdale Temple Jonathan Brent, YIVO Executive Director Curt Leviant, Grade translator and personal friend Public officals TBA.

Reception to follow.

Riverdale Temple 4545 Independence Avenue (at 246th Street) Riverdale, NY 10471 $5 suggested contribution at the door. Reservations are recommended. www.yivo.org/reservations | 212.294.6127.

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friends on group projects, study and use library resources (laptops and Google television) to do homework in a comfortable “Teen Friendly” environment. Ages 13-18 only. For more information, call 718-549-1212.

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CANCER SUPPORT GROUP 10 a.m. Support Connection 40 Triangle Center Support Connection, Inc., a not–for-profit organization that provides free, confidential support services for people affected by breast and ovarian cancer, offers a Breast and Ovarian Cancer Support Group on the 1st Thursday of each month at the Support Connection office, Yorktown Heights, NY. Open to women with breast, ovarian or gynecological cancer. There are many common factors to any cancer diagnosis. Join other women who have been diagnosed as we discuss all stages of diagnosis, treatment and post-treatment. Advance registration required.

Call Support Connection at 914-962-6402 or 800-532-4290.

Mt. Vernon

LECTURE ON HISTORY 2 p.m. St. Paul’s Church 897 S. Columbus Avenue The Neutral ground: Westchester County and the Revolutionary War, a presentation by historian Wayne Cahilly, delves into the social and military history of the region caught between the British and the Americans. For more information, call 914-667-4116 or visit www.nps.gov/sapa.

Yonkers

FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION 5:30 p.m. Sarah Lawrence College Heimbold Visual Arts Center Alfred Guzzetti is the Osgood Hooker Professor of Visual Arts at Harvard University and has been making experimental and documentary films since the 1970s. His short films include Air, Night Vision, What Actually Happened, Down from the Mountains, The Tower of Industrial Life, Still Point and Time Exposure. Discussion to follow. For info, call 914-395-2412.

Friday, April 5 Somers

multiple exposure, macro photography, camera movement, and traditional photography. Reception with refreshments.

Viewing of art exhibit – FREE (Exhibit runs through April 28, 2013). For info, call 914-723-3470.

Cross River

SONG OF THE TIMBERDOODLE 7 p.m. Trailside Nature Museum Ward Pound Ridge Reservation Nesting in the fields of the Reservation, the American Woodcock begins its unusual courtship display at sundown.

For more information, call 914- 864-7322.

Sunday, April 7 Pelham

MEET THE AUTHORS 1 p.m. Pelham Art Center 155 Fifth Avenue In “Still Thinking of You: A Second Chance with our Mothers” four authors, Vicki Addesso, Susan Hodara, Joan Potter and Lori Toppel, vividly examine the complex, poignant, fraught and loving bonds that define each author’s relationship with her mother. Part of Pelham Art Center’s Emerging Writers Series, and hosted by Pei-Ling Lue, this free, open-to-the-public program will feature the four authors as they read, and then discuss their inspiration and processes in writing this book.

For more information, call 914-738-2525.

Scarsdale

FEEDING FUN 2 p.m. Greenburgh Nature Center 99 Dromore Road Gobble, crunch, slurp, chomp! It’s mealtime for our animals.

Come see what’s on the menu. Included with Museum admission- FREE for Members! For more info, call 914-723-3470.

Tuesday, April 9 Yonkers

HORTICULTURE FOR CHILDREN 1 p.m. Lasdon Park Route 35 A great way to introduce children (ages 3 - 6) to the world of gardening through greenhouse and gardening activities, nature walks, and horticultural projects. Fee: $6 per person; pre-registration required at (914) 886-5108.

TRAVEL FILM 1:30 p.m. Riverfront Library One Larkin Center Yonkers Public Library’s Riverfront Library announces a new travel program. America, the Beautiful, a free series of film presentations on the States. Visit California, North Carolina, Kansas, New Hampshire and West Virginia on April 9th. For more information, contact Jody Maier, at 914-337-1500, ext. 492.

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Saturday, April 13

WILDLIFE REHAB WORKSHOP 10 a.m. Marshlands Conservancy 220 Boston Post Road Licensed wildlife rehabilitator Joanne Dreebin will present the dos and don’ts of caring for wildlife in distress. Coffee and tea provided. Please bring your own lunch. Adults Only. For more information, call 914- 835-4466.

YHS MEMBERSHIP MEETING 1 p.m. Will Branch Library 1500 Central Park Avenue The Yonkers Historical Society will hold its Annual General Membership Meeting. The Patricia Mangold Scholarship will be presented to a high school senior in Yonkers. Author Eddie Dee will read from ‘Coming of Age -- in Yonkers,’ being released at this program. For more information, call 914-961-8940.

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AN HERBAL AFFAIR 10:30 a.m. Lasdon Park Route 35 Learn how to successfully start herbs by seed and cutting in the Lasdon greenhouse, transplant them to pots to take home, and enjoy a cup of herbal tea. Series fee: $45 per person; pre-registration required at (914) 886-5108.

Ossining

VOLUNTEER WORKSHOP 1 p.m. Teatown Lake Reservation 1600 Spring Valley Road This intensive three hour workshop will cover the basics of care, feeding, and husbandry, and provide a foundation for people interested in becoming a member of the Raptor Crew.

Please note this program is for adults only. Program fee: $25pp for members; $35pp for nonmembers. Programs fill quickly so registration is strongly recommended. Call 914-762-2912 x110 to reserve.

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VOLUNTEER WORK PROJECT 1 p.m. Marshlands Conservancy 220 Boston Post Road Spreading Wood Chips. Come help beautify the sanctuary near the Visitor Center. Great for school service credit hours.

Please bring work gloves. Hand tools provided. Meet at the Visitor Center. For more information, call 914-835-4466.

Scarsdale

EXHIBIT RECEPTION 2 p.m. Greenburgh Nature Center 99 Dromore Road PAINTING WITH A CAMERA BY STAN RUBIN – Stan’s goal is to make people see nature and other parts of life in a different way. He uses several different methods in his photography including shooting through stained glass and antique glass filters, montage (two slides put together),

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Mt. Vernon

LECTURE ON HISTORY 2 p.m. St. Paul’s Church 897 S. Columbus Avenue The intriguing question of what does George Washington have to do with the American Civil War will be the subject of a special talk by Professor Sarah Anne Rubin of the University of Maryland. Dr. Rubin is President of the Society of Civil War Historians, and has written numerous works on the great national conflict, including the award winning, A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868.

Her address marks the 9th annual Aronson Memorial Lecture, named for a devoted volunteer in the 1980s and 90s. For more information, call 914-667-4116 or visit www.nps.gov/sapa.

Thursday, April 18 Yonkers

WORLD BOOK NIGHT 5 p.m. Riverfront Library One Larkin Center Celebrate the upcoming April 23 World Book Night. Come to the Riverfront Library for lemonade, coffee, cookies and good books! Bring your library card to check out or reserve World Book Night titles which will be on display. For additional information, contact Teen & Technology Librarian “Z” at (914) 375-7967, z@ypl.org.

Saturday, April 27 Tarrytown Family Fun Day

10 a.m. Lyndhurst 635 South Broadway The event is largely indoors and will occur rain or shine.

Kids of all ages are invited to exhibit their LEGO® creations in the historic Lyndhurst mansion. Sculptures must be created in advance. Deadline to register as an exhibitor is April 5, 2013.

For complete event information and exhibitor registration form, visit www.lyndhurst.org/LEGO.

Upcoming activities at JASA for April Commemorate the Holocaust with Sol Rosenkranz from the Museum of Jewish Heritage Speakers Bureau on Tues. Apr. 9th at 1:00 PM. Mr. Rosenkranz survived internment in 6 concentration camps.

We will also light memorial candles and serve refreshments.

Celebrate March and April birthdays on Wed. Apr. 10th with Bobby Liggio, dynamic one man band who will play a varied program of dance and listening music. Lunch served at 12:15 PM followed by party at 1:00 PM. JASA Art Salon with Amy Gottlieb, poet/writer, will meet on Mon. Apr. 15th at 12:40 PM followed by Michael Ferris Jr.’s Narrative Portrait class.

Join us on Sunday, April 28th for a delectable lunch followed by an ethnic dance presentation by members of Kalpulli Huehetlahtolli, a Native American

group, at 1:00 PM. Performers will share customs and values of their ancient Mexica culture.

Senior contribution of $3.00 for the meal and $2.00 fee for the event is recommended. Non-senior fee is $5.00 for the meal and $3.00 for the event. Kindly reserve with the center office at 718-5494700 by Thurs. Apr. 25th.

Trips: Derfner Judaica Museum on Thurs. Apr. 11th at 10:30 AM. Sands Casino on Thurs. Apr. 18th at 8:45 AM. Fee for the Sands Casino trip is $25.00. For reservations and information, please call the center office at 718-549-4700.

The center also offers day trips to area casinos, movie theaters and shopping.

For information and reservations, please contact Maritza Silva at 718-549-4700.

All meals at JASA Van Cortlandt Senior Center are catered by Mauzone (kosher) Meal Service. We offer a daily alternate choice of main dish. We are located in the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center at 3880

Collection of collages shown at the Y

Jonathan Schorsch has worked as an environmental activist, musician, commercial fisherman, elevator operator, apartment renovator, and professor. For 11 years he taught at Emory University (Dept. of History) and Columbia University (Dept. of Religion). In addition to several scholarly books and essays, his general-interest writing has been published in venues such as The Times of Israel, Tikkun, Sh'ma, Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture, Eretz Acheret, and European Judaism. He leads workshops on topics combining Judaism and ecology. He is an avid organic gardener, with the sometime help of his

children. He will be showing a collection of his collages at the Y for the month of April. A reception for him will be on April 7 from 1:30pm-3:00pm. The entire community is invited.

Toastmasters Club invites new members

Bronx Toastmasters Club of Riverdale invites new members to join at their free meeting on Wed., April 10, 7:00 pm at the Riverdale Neighborhood House, 5521 Mosholu Avenue.

Wouldn't you like to communicate effectively? Now you can! Toastmasters will show you how to listen effectively, think on your feet, and speak confidently.

You will learn valuable leadership skills - all in a supportive, non-intimidating environment.

For further information, visit their website http://www.bronxtoastmastersclub. org or call 718-796-6671.

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The Riverdale Chapter of the Brandeis National Committee invites its members and their friends to its next meeting to be held on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at 12:30 P.M., in the Riverdale Temple at 246 Street and Independence Avenue.

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Send Lying Educrats to Jail

It may not be the biggest story in New York, but perhaps the most significant story in the education arena in quite a while took place in Atlanta last week. Former Atlanta Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall was arrested for falsifying test results and collecting a huge bonus as a result.

When test results were soaring here in New York a few years back we warned that our scores here were totally bogus, the result of subtle and not-so-subtle forms of cheating, designed to make adults look good, but wind up hurting our children, our schools and our communities.

It used to be that tests were administered to help children, to identify their strengths and weaknesses so that the instructional program could be adjusted to insure that each individual child got needed assistance – or not – based on the results.

We remember being told that the reason for these remarkable results was mayoral control of the schools. It seemed that mayoral control was so powerful that scores went up not just in New York City, where the mayoral exercises dictatorial powers, but by similar amounts in districts throughout the state run by school boards democratically elected by the public.

What this tells us is that scores rose not because of any educational initiative, be it structural or instructional, but rather by a manipulation of the tests.

After more than a decade of educational stagnation under Bloomberg, it is time to revisit mayoral control and reintroduce some democracy back into school governance.

Our problems also result from greed and ego – mayors, school superintendents and state education commissioners like to make themselves look good, an unintended consequence of the federal “No Child Left Behind” law.

That law centers around a ludicrous premise, that is the goal that all children in the United States will be reading and doing math at “grade level” by next year. This has been compounded by the similarly foolish “blame the teacher” mentality of “Race to the Top.” So the good folks at the New York State Education Department (and in many other, but not all, states across this great land) have altered the playing field.

It is simplistic to say that they have made the tests “easier.” It is far more complex than that. Standardized tests always vary, from the perspective of the student, in difficulty. What makes them “standardized” is that the raw score is adjusted to reflect a certain level of expectation. It is in this “norming” process that much mischief can take place.

Remember, these scores are expressed in percentage of children achieving something called “grade level,” a very subjective judgment. Just moving the “cut score” a tad lower, by accepting, say 12 correct answers rather than 13 as achieving “grade level,” hundreds of thousands of students may be moved above the bar.

There are other methodologies used to boost scores, subject matter for another essay. But there is one other evil strategy worthy of mention, and that is the total removal of security from the city’s testing program, a sort of wink and nod to schools and some teachers that engage in what we feel is widespread “retail” cheating.

They have got a clear signal that no one cares and that they will not be punished.

A year after the test scores peaked, the State Board of Regents finally came clean, admitting that the scores had been wildly inflated. Unlike in Georgia, where Governor Sonny Perdue has pressed a vigorous investigation, the one that led to the indictment of Superintendent Hall, we should ask is where our public officials have been. Tens of billions of dollar have been misspent because of these phony results. We call that theft. Where was the indictment of former Commissioner Mills who personally reduced cut scores to those scandalously ridiculously low levels?

The strategy we must now pursue is honesty. Painful though it may be, it is the first step in fixing our schools. Then we must enhance our curriculum to meet world standards. Common Core is a good first step, but in many cases it is only a baby step.

Along the way, some of our children will fail. That is better that what we have now, a system where all children are set up for “success” in school but failure in real life. The real question is whether our politicians and educrats really care about our collective future, or are just too fixated on their own to do what must be done.

Worth putting the effort into co-op fight To the Editor: On March 28, the Amalgamated cooperators were informed that as of May 1 their rent will be increased by 7.12%. The DHCR Commissioner had ordered (i.e., approved) the full $14/room/ month increase in the maximum average monthly carrying charge requested by the Amalgamated Board in order to refinance the two old mortgages.

A typical rent for a one-bedroom apartment has gone from $569 in 2006 to $730 on May 1.

That is a 28.3% increase in seven years. Over 4% per year. That is faster than stabilized rents in Manhattan rose in the last 20 years, and faster than the rent has been rising at Penn South and other co-ops comparable to Amalgamated. It is also almost double the average general inflation rate over those years which was 2.1%.

If the Board had decided to take the same refinance loan with a 30-year rather than a 15-year term that would have allowed another two years without an increase. In that way the rapid increase in the last few years would have been slowed down.

The decision to take a 15-year loan causing over $1 million more debt service per year than is needed contributes to the deteriorating affordability of

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Amalgamated. In 2004, the NYC Comptroller wrote a report with the title, "Affordable No More".

In it he argued that NYC will lose affordable housing for many of its people if strenuous efforts are not made to maintain limited dividend and Mitchell Lama co-ops. He was arguing against privatization, but steady, large carrying charge increases can have the same effect. By the Amalgamated Board deciding on a 15-year mortgage it missed an opportunity to safeguard the affordability of our co-op.

Some cooperators put up a challenge to the necessity of this increase. But we lost. If we had not fought, we would have had no chance of stopping it. By fighting we kept open the search for a way to make a difference. We got some coverage by the local papers and made the length of the mortgage a question for many people. We also established for the DHCR a record of opposition to unnecessary carrying charge increases.

In the fight, we showed that an elected Board can make a judgment or mistake which goes against the interest of those they are supposed to represent and can end up costing all cooperators thousands of dollars extra. Also, we saw again the abdication by the DHCR of its oversight obligations

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despite its own rule that "Refinancings should not be undertaken ...

2. Where debt service on the new loan would require a burdensome rent or maintenance increase."

(Housing Management Bureau Memorandum #2009-B-05) I think it was worth putting the effort into this fight. From my point of view, we who fought were acting as citizens of our co-op and carrying on the 86 year spirit of cooperator involvement in the affairs of the Amalgamated.

Jay Hauben Amalgamated Cooperator

More salt strewn about

To The Editor: After leaving the evening service at Kingsbridge Center of Israel, on Corlear Avenue, the first evening of Passover, March 25, I was fascinated to see a truck spreading salt on Riverdale Avenue, at West 231st Street. I was fascinated because it was drizzling at the time. Later that night, leaving a seder - and at this time, the weather was clear - I was even more fascinated to see a truck spreading salt on Henry Hudson Parkway, near Kappock Street. Has Mayor Bloomberg established a new tradition to mark the first night of Passover? Does the city have a huge inventory of rock salt it wants to get rid of? Was the salt spread to prevent the presence of weeds, this spring, in the cracks in roadways opened up by previous applications of salt, this winter? Was this merely an official prank intended to speed car corrosion? Clearly, we are living in confusing times.

David R. Zukerman

Editorial of The New York Sun April 1, 2013

The idea of addressing gun violence by taxing pistols is being tested at Cook County, Illinois. According to the Sun Times newspaper, a special gun tax kicks in today. The measure is not an April Fool’s Day joke. It is the brainstorm of the president of the County Board, Toni Preckwinkle. It will levy $25 for “on each gun sale in suburban Cook County.” At the rate at which guns seem to be flying off the shelves the idea is that this tax will bring in a sizable chunk of change.

The Preckwinkle Tax applies only to the Second Amendment. But the significance of the measure is that it opens up the question of whether our governments in need of money can tap into the full Bill of Rights. If, after all, one can tax the right to keep and bear arms, imagine what one could do with the right to freely exercise one’s religion that is vouchsafed in the First Amendment. How about $10 every time someone says a prayer.

For that matter, one could slap a tax on freedom of the press. If one could get, say, a dollar tax for each copy of a newspaper sold, imagine what one could raise by slapping excise on speech, another First Amendment right. One could have a sliding scale, depending on how long the speech was. One could try to impose a $1,000 levy on peaceable assemblies and a $10,000 tax on petitioning the government for the redress of a grievance.

The First Amendment, moreover is just the first article of the Bill of Rights. The Third Amendment ought to be another doozy, owing to the fact that so many people don’t want to have soldiers quartered in their homes, even in times of peace. If the government could bill you, say, $150 for not quartering its troops in your home, it could raise on the 118 million American households something like $17.2 billion each peaceful year.

Plus, the Fourth Amendment would be another gold mine, given the number of people who want to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures in their persons, homes, and papers and who want any warrants against them to be but for probable cause. One could fund whole police departments just by taxing a few dollars for each search not executed without a warrant.

Cash coming off the Fourth would probably be pennies compared to the money to be made off the Fifth Amendment. The Fifth is the one that guarantees, among other things, the right against self-incrimination. In other words, just by taxing a person at the rate of one dollar each time he or she kept his or her mouth shut, the government could let every school child in America have a White House tour every day and fly them back and forth for free.

The Sixth Amendment — the right to a speedy trial — would be a tricky one.

The tax for exercising this right could be on a sliding scale. Imagine that, say, a person would pay a tax of $1,000 for exercising the right to an immediate trial.

Maybe, though, someone wouldn’t want so speedy a trial. So he could pay a lower tax, depending on how speedy a trial he didn’t want. If one wanted to confront the witnesses against oneself, why, the tax on that could imposed on a per-witness basis.

Think, too, about the revenues that could come off the Seventh Amendment right to a trial by jury. It’s one of the most basic rights in the entire Bill. No one thought of taxing it, though, until Toni Preckwinkle came up with the idea of taxing the Second Amendment. That precedent, however, opens up the possibility of the government getting money

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fifth annual schweitzer lecture

Kristallnacht in History and Memory Alan E. Steinweis, Ph.D., is the Leonard and Carolyn Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Holocaust Studies. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., he received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he worked under the eminent historian Gerhard L. Weinberg.

Steinweis is the author of three books: Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts (University of North Carolina Press, 1993); Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany (Harvard University Press, 2006), which was designated a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category; and Kristallnacht 1938 (Harvard University Press, 2009). He is currently writing a history of Nazi Germany for Cambridge University Press.

In his lecture, Steinweis will explain how the Kristallnacht fit into the unfolding anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi regime,

Very disturbing To The Editor: Why does New York City/ The MTA/ The EPA have to use Full Blast “back-up” sirens ALL NIGHT long on the Henry Hudson Bridge renovation?

I am not even complaining about the construction noise, which has gone on all night for years. I do however, question why the back-up warning devices on the construction TRUCKS have to be at maximum volume ALL through the night...

1am, 3am, 4:55 am, and on and on.

There are No Pedestrians and very, very, very few cars at that time of night.

I live 4 blocks away from the work site, and as you can imagine, with most of the world quiet at that time of the early/morning, its very, very, VERY sleep-disturbing.

Hank Goldman

government could lose.

Same with the Tenth Amendment, only more so. What the Tenth says is that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by the Constitution to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people.

The way this tax would be levied is that the state governments would have to pay the federal government every time the federal government let them do something on their own.

You can see where all this could lead.

Toni Preckwinkle could emerge as a sage of political economy and a revolutionary of good governance. A force for a sound fisc. A movement could be mounted to run her for Senate on a platform more revolutionary than even that of the last candidate Illinois handed up. For she will have found a way to marry the exercise of our rights with the balancing of our budgets. No one ever said freedom was free.

AlAn E. StEinwEiS, ph.D.

and why the event continues to loom so large in the collective memories of Jews, Germans and others.

Thursday, April 4, 2013 7:00 p.m.

Smith Auditorium If you have any questions about this, or any other hgI Center event, please contact Mehnaz Afridi, Ph.D., at mehnaz.afridi@manhattan.edu.

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The Preckwinkle Tax

every time someone demands the right to a trial by jury.

The government could rake in a fortune, too, on the Eighth Amendment.

This protects the right of bail. People will say that bail itself costs them money. But they get it back if they show up on the date assigned when bail was posted. The beauty of a Preckwinkle type of tax on bail is that the government wouldn’t have to give the money back. It could keep it to use for expanding the government even further.

Where you get into your real money, though, is on the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. A tax on the Ninth would kick in every time the government refrained from construing the enumeration of a right in the Constitution in a way that denied or disparaged other rights retained by the people. Each time it did that, people would have to pay. In other words, you want to be left alone, it’ll cost you. It’s hard to see how the

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