The Mark Schonwetter Holocaust Education Foundation’s Journey for the Living Challenge (JFTL Challenge) announced today a collaboration with Elon University to
March 4, 2021 at 2:28 PM
Julie A. Silbermann, a Livingston resident, has been elected President of Temple B’nai Abraham in Livingston. Mrs.
Silbermann, the synagogue’s twenty-ninth president in its 168
th year history, officially began her term of office on March 1, 2021. She succeeds Jeffrey A. Klein, also a resident of Livingston. Jeffrey assumed the presidency after the untimely passing of temple president Dr. Bruce H. Greene.
Julie previously served as president of Temple B’nai Abraham from 2013-2017. Prior to becoming president, Julie served as a B’nai Abraham Vice-President and held several vital temple leadership positions, including Board of Education Chair and PTA President.
Among the images from the riots was a man in a shirt that said Camp Auschwitz.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said he shares the outrage that so many are feeling after seeing the shirt. To anyone who has not spoken out against this - this is who you are standing with, Murphy said. Anti-Semitism is alive and well and runs deep.
After seeing anti-Jewish hate shirts during the events at the Capitol, Isabella Fiske and her sister Ann Arnold are reminded why it is so vital for their father to tell schoolchildren his Holocaust survival story.
He has fought hate and ignorance his entire life.