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AMIT NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY/CONNECTCUT REGION SPONSORS ANNUAL SPRING JOURNAL LUNCHEON
New York City, April 19, 2005...... The Annual Spring Journal Luncheon, sponsored by the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut Tri-State Region of AMIT, has been scheduled for Wednesday, June 1, 2005, at Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York City. The luncheon will begin at 12 noon, preceded by a boutique at 10:30 a.m. All funds raised at this event will go to improve the lives of AMIT's more than 15,000 students in Israel.
May 10, 2005, marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of AMIT on May 10, 1925. Special tribute will be paid to AMIT's 80-year history during the luncheon program.
Zipporah Marans, a resident of Cedarhurst, New York, and wife of Rabbi Arnold B. Marans of the Sephardic Temple, will be honored as Woman of the Year. Currently a national vice president of AMIT and member of the Editorial Board of AMIT Magazine, Mrs. Marans has been an active member of the organization since the 1960s. She is a founder of the Sephardic Temple Chapter and the Long Island Sabra Chapter of AMIT. For many years she served as AMIT's Mother-in-Israel Campaign chair and presently co-chairs the organization's Public Affairs Committee.
Together with Rabbi Marans, Mrs. Marans has been particularly devoted to the AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled Child Haven in Jerusalem. Rabbi and Mrs. Marans were instrumental in dedicating a new playground at Beit Hayeled and are currently in the process of establishing a medical clinic at this important AMIT facility.
The outstanding regional AMIT leaders who will be honored at the Annual Spring Journal Luncheon include Helene Benovitz, Riverdale; Ann Dershowitz, West Orange, New Jersey; Joan Finkelstein, Staten Island; Linda Gotel, Monsey; Goldie Gross, Brooklyn; Rona Kellman, Manhattan; Ruth Mirsky Merenstein, Belle Harbor; and Sami Schindelheim, Long Beach.
Couvert for the luncheon is $75 per person with other donor opportunities available. For further information please call AMIT at 212-477-4720.
AMIT enables Israel's youth to realize their potential and strengthens Israeli society by educating and nurturing children from diverse backgrounds within a framework of academic excellence, religious values and Zionist ideals.
AMIT educates and cares for Israel's youth, including the most vulnerable. More than three quarters of AMIT students cope with educational, psychological, economic and/or social risk factors. AMIT approaches each child as an individual, maximizing his or her potential, and enabling our students to become vital, productive members of Israeli society. The AMIT schools promote religious tolerance, service to the state and the recognition that every child is blessed with unique talents and abilities. Founded in 1925, AMIT operates more than 60 schools, youth villages, surrogate family residences and other programs, constituting Israel's only government-recognized network of religious Jewish education incorporating academic and technological studies.
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Media Contact:
Barbara Goldberg
Director of Communications
212-477-4720, ext. 127
barbarag@amitchildren.org
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