Notices: Sunday Speaker Series, Hat and Glove Drive
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On Sunday November 2 at 3 pm, the Scarsdale Forum Sunday Speaker Series will host Judy Cheng-Hopkins at the Scarsdale Woman's Club at 3:00 pm. The program is free and open to the public.
Judy Cheng-Hopkins, a 2013 recipient of the Distinguished Scarsdale High School Alumni Award, has just retired from a distinguished 36 year long career at the United Nations. Most recently, Judy served as the UN Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees. Before that, Judy served as the Director of the World Food Programme's Bureau for Asia and Eastern Europe, where she supervised the UN's most significant humanitarian operations in North Korea, Afghanistan, and Kosovo. Judy has just been appointed as the Special Advisor to the Secretary-General for the UN-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica, where she also serves as Chancellor. Judy received a Masters degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, and she has diplomas/certificates from Harvard University and the University of Haute Bretagne.
Her talk, entitled "Peacebuilding: What, Why and How"" is underwritten in part by a generous grant from the Irving J. Sloan Education Fund, made possible by the Liz Claiborne-Arthur Ortenberg Foundation.
For program and membership information, please call 723-2829, e-mail: [email protected] or visit: www.ScarsdaleForum.com.
Scarsdale Woman's Club
37 Drake Road
Scarsdale, New York
Sunday November 2, 2014
3:00 PM
Hat, Glove and Scarf Drive:
The Westchester County Bar Association Diversity Committee has placed a collection container in the lobby of Scarsdale Village Hall, 1001 Post Road for this year's Hat, Glove & Scarf Drive which will benefit local veterans. All of the collected items will be presented to the FDR Veteran's Hospital located in Montrose, New York.
Donations will be accepted through the end of December. Village Hall hours are 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Monday through Friday.
Residents should feel free to contact the Village Clerk's office with any questions by phone at 914-722-1175.
Open House at Murray Hill Estate
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A public open house will be held at 10 Morris Lane in Scarsdale from 2 - 3:30 pm on Sunday October 19, 2014.
Majestic estate located on a premier block in prestigious Murray Hill. Never before on the market, is this gracious Center Hall Colonial sited on two glorious acres surrounded by lush rolling lawns and exquisite gardens. A fabulous Gunite pool and adjacent tennis court enhance the luxury lifestyle. The house boasts nine foot ceilings, elegant finishes and quality appointments, including hardwood floors, arched doorways and walls of wainscoting creating an aura of grace and elegance. The stunning gourmet kitchen features St. Charles cabinetry, all new stainless steel appliances and a breakfast area that opens to the patio. The floor plan is ideal for convenient everyday living and formal entertaining as the indoor leads seamlessly to the beautiful outdoor spaces. Six bedrooms, five bathrooms and a convenient laundry room are on the second floor. Learn more here:
List Price: $5,949,000
Sukkot Reimagined at WRT
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The community is invited to celebrate Sukkot at Westchester Reform Temple on Wednesday October 8 from 5 to 8 pm. The temple will be filled with an assortment of booths where there will be learning, music, fun and food all without an admission charge.
"At WRT, we strive to reimagine and reinvent our traditions and our celebrations to make our holidays more meaningful," says Senior Rabbi Jonathan Blake. "This year, we're using booths, or Sukkot, not only to recall the temporary dwellings our ancestors used during their wanderings, but also to engage Judaism and this festival observance in a new way that reflects the energy of WRT's community and education."
The evening will offer something for everyone:
-5:00 p.m. Young children and their families can enjoy a pizza dinner (nominal charge) before a short service in one of the congregation's sukkot.
-5:30 p.m. Sukkot Service for participants of all ages.
-6:00 p.m- to 8:00 pm: Attendees of all ages will enjoy The Koby Hayon Acoustic Trio, which will
perform Israeli and Jewish music
7:00 p.m. Adult study will include a Sukkot meditation program.
8:00 p.m. Rabbi Blake will host Spirits in the Sukkah, an adults-only gathering featuring both study and the tasting of locally-distilled whiskey and other spirits.
Smorgasburg food vendors Woezo, Chickpea and Olive and Amore Pizza will provide a mix of vegetarian, West African inspired food and pizza for purchase.
"The booth, or sukkah in Hebrew, is the location for celebration and the central image of Sukkot," says Sorel Goldberg Loeb, Director of Education at WRT. "We will move our afternoon classes out of their permanent rooms and away from their permanent routines to temporary shelters outside our building. There, our students will learn the traditions of Sukkot, taste new foods, and hear some wonderful Israeli music. Getting our students in a new setting will both stimulate their learning and reflect the holiday."
For more information, contact the congregation at 914-723-7727 or [email protected] or visit the website at wrtemple.org.
Open House on Sunday
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Open House at 4 Burgess Road in Scarsdale on Sunday October 12 from 2-3:30 pm
Beautiful five-bedroom Colonial on a level .60 acre with a fabulous patio and a 20' x 40' pool with Jacuzzi. Perfect home for everyday living and entertaining. Renovated and expanded in 2000. 
First floor has a lovely entry with beautiful staircase, living room with fireplace, dining room, large kitchen with island, breakfast area and sliding doors that lead to large patio. A study, office, and full bath complete this level. Walk to high school, Scarsdale Village, and public bus. Free school bus to elementary school. Slate roof and permanent generator. Learn more here:
List Price: $2,695,000
Scarsdale Synagogue Launches Bone Marrow Registration Drive
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Based on the concept of "We Care 'Cause You Care," Scarsdale Synagogue Temples Tremont and Emanu-El, s launching agrass-roots social action program.The first activity is focused on an initiative spearheaded by several of its members to encourage fellow congregants and the wider Scarsdale community to register as possible bone marrow donors. Bone marrow and blood from matching donors are used as a treatment for leukemia and other life-threatening blood diseases.
The Synagogue's initiative is being conducted in cooperation with the Gift of Life Foundation, a leading bone marrow and blood stem cell donor registry. Gift of Life has also partnered with the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ) to run bone marrow recruitment drives. The drive is scheduled in connection with Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) observances. On that Friday, October 3rd, and Saturday, October 4th, people who volunteered for the bone marrow registry will be asked to provide a tissue sample that will be easily and painlessly obtained by simply touching a sterile cotton swab to the inside of the person's cheek. Potential donors must be between the ages of 18-60 and in general good health. The bone marrow drive's slogan is: "Swab a Cheek, Inscribed for Life."
DNA information from that sample will then be preserved in the Gift of Life bone marrow registry. A registrant whose DNA matches a patient's need can then be asked to make the donation of either marrow or blood, with the decision to do so being completely voluntary.
Scarsdale Synagogue's grass-roots program is designed to enable members, who feel passionately about a worthy cause not yet embraced by the Congregation, to find and connect with other members with a similar interest. This group of committed individuals will then be better able to pool their energies, and gain the active support of the Synagogue, to pursue the Jewish ideal of tikkun olam (repairing the world).
"Our members already engage in a variety of charitable and similar activities we support," said Jeffrey C. Brown, Scarsdale Synagogue's Senior Rabbi. "These include a food bank addressing hunger in Westchester and the North Bronx, along with our Mitzvah Day outreach program that this November will benefit the Westchester Diaper Drive, Midnight Run and many others. The cool thing about the grass-roots program is how it enables our families to more readily find like-minded fellow congregants to enhance individual efforts on behalf of other worthy causes, with the scale and impact that group activities can bring to bear."
Commenting on behalf of the membership, Synagogue President Donna Vitale Ruskin said: "With the support we get from our clergy and including selected resources available from our broad-based funds reserved for tzedakah (charitable giving), our congregants will be better able to help others through activities supported by the Synagogue. We expect that this new approach will further engage our community, as we continue to reach out and live our ideals through supporting both Jewish and secular humanitarian causes."
About Scarsdale Synagogue
Scarsdale Synagogue Temples Tremont and Emanu-El is a Reform Jewish congregation committed to creating, with and for its 450 member families, a covenant community of shared lives and real relationships. Founded in 1961, the Synagogue was joined by the memberships of Tremont Temple of the Bronx in 1976 and Temple Emanu-El of Southern Westchester in 2008. For further information, contact: Roberta Aronovitch, Executive Director at (914) 725-5175 or by email at [email protected].
