Thieves Resume Edgemont Home Break-ins
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A spate of home burglaries in 2011 seemed to have ended until we received reports of two more incidents this week. The first one took place on Inverness Road at 6:45 pm on Saturday February 11. Police responded to a burglar alarm at the home and found a shattered glass door on the back patio. The suspect(s) ransacked the upstairs bedrooms targeting jewelry boxes. The amount of stolen property has not yet been determined.
Patrol officers searched the neighborhood for suspects and interviewed neighboring homeowners.
On Monday afternoon February 13 at 3:30 pm, police got a call from a Juniper Road woman to report that someone had entered her home between 11:00 am and 3:15 pm.
Suspect (s) entered the home by forcing open a ground floor window in the back of the house. The master bedroom was ransacked and numerous items, including jewelry and a wii game video console, were stolen.
Police again searched the neighborhood and detectives were sent in to investigate this second incident within two days.
Greenburgh Police ask anyone who may have seen anything suspicious, relevant to this incident, to call them at (914) 682-5331. All calls will be kept confidential.
Scarsdale League Selects Students to Attend Inside Albany Program
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Chris D’Silva and George Frankle from Scarsdale High School have been selected by the Scarsdale League of Women Voters for an all-expenses paid trip to participate in the Students Inside Albany program. This program will take place from March 25-28, and will bring approximately 40 students from across the state to Albany to get a first-hand education about their state government. The program is designed to increase high school students' awareness of their responsibility in representative government and to provide information about the tools necessary for meeting that responsibility.
D’Silva, a 10th grader, and Frankle, an 11th grader, were selected from among a pool of outstanding applicants in a competitive process open to all high school students residing in Scarsdale. In fact, the League’s Board was so impressed with the quality of the applicants that it approved funding to send two students rather than one to the conference this year.
While at the conference, students will join their peers in a hands-on learning experience about how state government works. The highlight for most students is the opportunity to shadow their Senators and their Assembly member for an afternoon, with many students getting the opportunity to attend session on the Chamber floor.
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government and works to foster a better understanding of public policy issues that will have an impact on our lives and our communities. For more information on the Scarsdale League of Women Voters, please visit www.lwvs.org.
Florie Wachtenheim to Receive 2012 Scarsdale Bowl
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Florie Wachtenheim has been selected by the Scarsdale Bowl Committee to receive the 2012 Scarsdale Bowl, the highest honor for service to Scarsdale. Wachtenheim will be the 75th recipient of the Scarsdale Bowl Award and the 22nd woman selected. Nominators on the Scarsdale Bowl Committee recommended Wachtenheim as “a volunteer leader in Scarsdale who invariably worked cooperatively with neighbors to make the right choices as a group. Her ability to find and solidify a consensus has been exceptional. Her trustworthiness and caring often have carried a group beyond sharp differences and to view changes in a new light.“
Wachtenheim has experienced and led an extensive “tour” of educational service opportunities over her years in Scarsdale from the day she became a resident in 1981 with a husband and one child. Even before her third son was born in 1989, she already had accepted responsibility in the Fox Meadow School PTA.
Her “tour” was marked by growing levels of responsibility from the time in 1994 when she became President of the Fox Meadow PTA. Important roles have been accorded to her at Scarsdale PT Council, School Board Nominating Committee, Middle School PTA, Scarsdale Teen Center, Scarsdale Bowl Committee, Scarsdale Scholarship Fund, Scarsdale Board of Education, League of Women Voters, and Scarsdale Adult School.
Wachtenheim’s sons attended Scarsdale schools, K-12, and now are graduates of colleges and universities. Her business activities included, for twenty years, a role as Administrative Vice President, Merchants Importing, Inc. She is now an Associate at the executive search organization Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates, Ltd. where she conducts executive searches for school districts.
Asked about her reaction to the news, Wachtenheim said, “Quite frankly, I was astonished and actually a little bit unnerved. I’ve always felt tremendous support for the contribution and spirit this award acknowledges, and I did not consider that I came close to meeting the standard that the Scarsdale Bowl represents.”
What were her favorite volunteer posts? Wachtenheim told us that she enjoyed “those connected to education, and most emphatically, those where I’ve been able to feel a direct connection to people in the community including the Fox Meadow PTA Presidency, the Board of Education Presidency, and chairing the Scarsdale Bowl Committee in 2008.
Some of her most memorable volunteer jobs including her work on the founding of the Teen Center, on the steering committee to explore an education foundation for Scarsdale as well as serving as a judge of the Middle School speech contest, as a facilitator at Young Writer’s Conference and as the liaison to the High School government at SHS.
The Scarsdale Bowl Dinner on Wednesday, April 18, celebrates the spirit of volunteerism in Scarsdale and includes the high moment when the Scarsdale Bowl is received. The Scarsdale Bowl Committee was formed initially as an independent entity in Scarsdale. It remains an independent committee of resident citizens, but the Scarsdale Foundation has the duty to maintain the Scarsdale Bowl tradition. For further information, go to www.scarsdalefoundation.org .
Rabbi Jeffrey Brown to Lead Scarsdale Synagogue
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Scarsdale Synagogue Temples Tremont and Emanu-El (SSTTE) appointed Jeffrey C. Brown to become its new rabbi as of July 1st. The appointment was announced by temple president Ellen Plum Rosenberg. Rabbi Brown was elected by the congregation following an extensive search to find a successor to Stephen A. Klein, who will retire as Senior Rabbi on June 30, 2012, after 31 years as the spiritual leader of this 525-family congregation. In addition, the Synagogue announced that Associate Rabbi Andrew Gordon will leave at the end of June to become Associate Rabbi of Temple Sinai, a 950-member-family congregation in Roslyn, NY.
Rabbi Brown comes to Scarsdale Synagogue following seven years as associate rabbi of Temple Solel in Cardiff, CA. In his role at the 850-family Reform Jewish congregation in suburban San Diego, Rabbi Brown takes a leading role in virtually every aspect of temple life. His pulpit skills, commitment to education and pastoral care are augmented by special program leadership that helped to transform and modernize the 33-year-old congregation. Highlights of his leadership include assisting in the creation of the temple’s nationally-recognized Facebook presence, and authoring two award-winning blogs aimed at young people and adult education students respectively.
A 2000 magna cum laude graduate of George Washington University, Rabbi Brown received his rabbinical training and ordination at Cincinnati’s Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, where he earned a master of arts degree in Hebrew letters, with the highest academic standing in his ordination class. Prior to his tenure at Temple Solel, he served as student rabbi at congregations in Colorado and Texas, as a chaplain at Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati, and as a rabbinic intern with Hillel at Miami University of Ohio. Rabbi Brown is married to Amy Bebchick. They are the proud parents of two young children.
Mrs. Rosenberg commented: “We feel fortunate that our covenant community attracted so many highly qualified candidates to succeed Rabbi Klein. Our rabbinic search task force reviewed the credentials of more that 40 rabbis, conducted in-depth Skype interviews with about a dozen of them and invited three very special people to have extended visits with us.”
“Following this thoroughgoing search effort by the 16-member task force, co-chaired by Ellen Baken and Steven Eigen,” Mrs. Rosenberg continued, “Rabbi Brown became the unanimous choice of our Executive Committee and Board of Trustees. His selection was ratified by a congregational vote, and we are simply delighted that he will be joining us this summer.”
In his letter to the membership of Scarsdale Synagogue following the vote, Rabbi Brown wrote of experiencing the warmth of the community and the devotion of its lay leadership, saying, “I am eager to work with all of you to build on that warmth and vitality as we write the next chapter of Scarsdale Synagogue’s history together.”
As Rabbi Emeritus, Rabbi Klein will continue his three-decade-long affiliation with Scarsdale Synagogue, where his leadership spurred the growth of the congregation from about 100 members to over 500 families today. Mrs. Rosenberg noted: “Steve led, embraced and helped to manage our synagogue through significant challenges and constructive change, enriching our community with vision, diligence and the sense of purpose that defined our worship services, educational programs, social action and many, many other activities. We cannot thank him enough for his service and for his commitment to all of us over all the wonderful years.”
Rabbi Klein is a former president, treasurer and secretary of the Westchester Board of Rabbis, and he played an integral role with Scarsdale’s Ad-Hoc Committee on the Crèche, which handled a divisive issue eventually resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1990, he was appointed and recently became Co-Chair of the National Commission on Rabbinic-Congregational Relations, mediating and solving intra-congregational disputes. Following the 9/11 tragedies, Rabbi Klein regularly served as a disaster care chaplain, providing spiritual guidance and emotional support to victims’ families.
Commenting on the summer departure of Rabbi Gordon, Mrs. Rosenberg said: “We express our thanks to Rabbi Gordon as well. He has been an innovative leader during his four years with us, especially by inspiring our young people to embrace the convictions and good works that are the hallmarks of our Reform Jewish community. We wish him every success in what we know will be a bright future for him and his new congregation.”
Scarsdale Synagogue Temples Tremont and Emanu-El is a Reform Jewish congregation committed to vibrant, caring Jewish life, and self-discovery and connection to Jewish roots by its members as they seek to build a Jewish future together. Founded in 1961, SSTTE 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, please contact:
Gary Katz, Executive Director Scarsdale Synagogue Temples Tremont and Emanu-El at (914) 725-5175 or by email at: [email protected].
Greenburgh Police Release Annual Crime Stats
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Greenburgh Police Chief DeCarlo released statistics for Part I and Part 2 Criminal Offenses for the year 2011. Part I Offenses are considered serious crimes by the United States Department of Justice and included Aggravated Assault, Burglary, Homicide, Larceny, Motor Vehicle Theft, Robbery and Rape.
Greenburgh Overall
During the year 2011, a total of 768 Part I Offenses were reported to the Greenburgh Police department as compared to the 730 reported in 2010 and 932 in 2009. This represents an increase of thirty-eight (38) offenses, or 5% over 2010 . This increase was primarily the result of the slight increase in larcenies from vehicles but on a positive note is the decrease of robberies from 26 in 2010 to 10 in 2011, a 62% decrease.
A total of 1,206 Part 2 offenses, which are considered less serious criminal acts, were reported in 2011. This was an increase of 141 over 2010 or 13%. This increase was driven by an increase in identity theft, criminal mischief and public order complaints.
Edgemont
In Edgemont burglaries decreased from 20 in 2010 to 15 in 2011, however larcenies increased from 90 in 2010 to 108 in 2011. Reports of criminal mischief rose from 43 incidents in 2010 to 52 in 2011.
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