Camp Shalom Seeks New Site After BOE Ends Deal By Jewish Link Staff | May 06, 2021
With the summer camp season on the horizon, the Teaneck Board of Education recently notified Camp Shalom that it was breaking its two-year agreement to lease Benjamin J. Franklin Middle School to the popular summer camp. The decision, sent by email to the camp’s directors, came as a shock to them, and has left hundreds of families who rely on the camp with no guarantee of childcare this summer.
In two separate emails to Camp Shalom’s directors, which were provided to The Jewish Link, lawyers representing the Teaneck BOE provided a range of reasons for the abrupt termination. In an initial email to the camp on March 29, lawyers for the BOE said the middle school, and all other facilities in the district, would be unavailable to the camp this summer–a fact that “it could not have reasonably known or anticipated.”
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“She belongs on the Mount Rushmore of Wisconsin Supreme Court justices,”
Joe Ehmann, who runs the appellate division of the State Public Defender’s office in Madison, says of the late Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice
Shirley Abrahamson, who passed away on Saturday.
“I think of her and
Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the same way,” he adds. “I am in awe of and grateful for what each achieved in their extraordinary lives and careers, and miss them both.”
Dean Strang, a prominent criminal defense attorney who has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court places Abrahamson, along with two or three other judges nationwide, as “the leading U.S. state supreme court judge of the second half of the 20th century and the first two decades of this one.”
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