Congregation Shaya Ahavat Torah Celebrates its 40th Anniversary

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Congregation Shaya Ahavat Torah Celebrates its 40th Anniversary

PARSIPPANY — Congregation Shaya Ahavat Torah of Parsippany held a Gala celebration to commemorate its 40th anniversary at The Madison Hotel in Morristown, on Sunday, May 17. Gala Honorees included long serving synagogue board members: Gershon Goldberg, recipient of the Hakarat HaTov (Congregation Appreciation Award), Lewis and Linda Golovin, recipients of the Kesser Shem Tov (Crown of Legacy Award), Dr. Louis Goodman, recipient of the Avodat HaKodesh-(Ritual Service Award), which is being dedicated to the loving memory of Eileen Goodman, of blessed memory. Barry Levitt & Constance Pallas, recipients of the Kehillah (Community Builder Award), Rabbi Shalom & Aharona Lubin, recipients of the Rabbinic Leadership Award, and Congregation President Naomi Rotter, recipient of the Community Leadership Award .

Congregation Shaya Ahavat Torah is the longest serving Orthodox synagogue in Morris County, and is located at 113 Hawkins Avenue.

It began in 1974 when Philip Bardash, Stanley Kaplan, Irv Gavrin, and George Kace met to form a minyan to pray according to Jewish law and custom. After renting space for many years, the congregation moved into its current building in 1997. The Shul added “Shaya” to its name in 2001 to honor a bequest made in memory of Samuel Graw. During the past 40 years, Congregation Shaya Ahavat Torah has adapted to meet the changing needs of its community. A welcoming environment to people from all walks of life, it has recently become a destination Shul attracting weekend visitors from throughout the Tri-State area.

Honorees seated from left to right: Lewis Golovin, Linda Golovin, Dr. Naomi Rotter, Constance Pallas, Barry Levitt. Honorees standing from left to right: Dr. Louis Goodman, Aharona Lubin, Rabbi Shalom Lubin, Gershon Goldberg

JBWS Kicks Off Dating Violence Prevention Program for Teen Athletes

Frank L. Cahill
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JBWS Kicks Off Dating Violence Prevention Program for Teen Athletes

MORRIS COUNTY — As domestic violence incidents continue to pervade the world of professional sports, the Jersey Battered Women’s Service (JBWS) is excited to announce the launch of the Yellow Card Campaign, a program that will reach out to young athletes with a proactive message to encourage them to become leaders in preventing dating violence.

Basketball players from Morris Knolls High School’s boy’s and girl’s teams helped shape the Yellow Card campaign that JBWS will now take to colleges, schools and independent sports programs throughout the area. On Wednesday, May 27, the teams will come together at the school to celebrate the launch of the program that they helped shape.  Athletes will receive Yellow Card t-shirts, sign a large pledge poster for display at their school, and hear program endorsements from their coach and teammate. The event will take place at 2:00 p.m. inside the Morris Knoll’s gymnasium. 

“Morris Knolls basketball helped us determine how we would move forward with this important new program that we believe can be a model for high school and college teams everywhere,” said Patricia Sly, executive director of JBWS. “Now, we’re excited to come back and officially launch the program with them.”

Though estimates of dating violence vary, one study funded by the National Institute of Justice found the following results from a sample of middle and high schools in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania:

  • 33% of students responding reported experiencing psychological dating abuse
  • 18% reported experiencing cyber dating abuse
  • 21% reported experiencing physical dating violence
  • 9% reported experiencing sexual coercion

These numbers are unacceptable. 

Through Yellow Card, JBWS will leverage our expertise to communicate a basic but crucial message to college and high school athletes: you can help prevent dating violence. By tapping into the natural leadership role that athletes often enjoy, the program is designed to inspire athletes to set the tone in the locker room and the classroom that abuse in relationships is unacceptable.

“Yellow Card reaches these athletes at an important and vulnerable time in their lives and teaches them not just how to make the right choices in their own relationships, but how to promote healthy behavior in their peers,” Sly said.

Yellow Card will educate athletes on the warning signs of dating abuse so that they can first learn to model healthy behavior in their own relationships, then to encourage it in others. Dating abuse is cultural problem and Yellow Card will enlist athletes, a crucial component of the high school culture, to stop it. 

The program involves direct training sessions with teams and groups of athletes as well as a wealth of supporting activities and materials including game-day awareness events, a broad media campaign and No2DatingAbuse.org, our resource-laden website. Every athlete involved is asked to sign a three-part pledge that addresses the tenets of the program. This pledge is available for anyone who wants to read and sign it on our website as well.

This campaign has been made possible thanks to the support of the Community Foundation of New Jersey, Morristown Medical Center-Community Health, Becton Dickinson, Verizon, F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc., Laurie Peter and Betsy Bernard, Brushfire Inc.’s professional marketing services, and several key individual donors.

Wyndham Worldwide’s CFO Tom Conforti to Participate in a Fireside Chat at Goldman Sachs

Frank L. Cahill
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Wyndham Worldwide’s CFO Tom Conforti to Participate in a Fireside Chat at Goldman Sachs
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Tom Conforti

PARSIPPANY — Tom Conforti, chief financial officer of Wyndham Worldwide Corporation will participate in a fireside chat at the 2015 Goldman Sachs Lodging, Gaming, Restaurant and Leisure Conference on Monday, June 1, 2015 in New York City.  Mr. Conforti will discuss the business, operations and outlook.

Wyndham is located on Sylvan Way.

Mr. Conforti’s remarks will be webcast live at 12:15 p.m. EDT.  Investors and other interested persons may listen to the live webcast through the Company’s website by clicking here. The webcast replay will be available 1 hour after conclusion of the live event and will remain available on the website for 90 days following the conference.

About Wyndham Worldwide Corporation
One of the world’s largest hospitality companies, Wyndham Worldwide provides a wide range of hospitality services and products through its global portfolio of world-renowned brands.  The world’s largest hotel company based on the number of properties, Wyndham Hotel Group is home to many of the world’s best-known hotel brands, with over 7,670 franchised hotels and over 667,000 hotel rooms worldwide. Wyndham Exchange & Rentals is the worldwide leader in vacation exchange and the world’s largest professionally managed vacation rentals business, providing more than five million leisure-bound families annually with access to over 109,000 vacation properties in over 100 countries through its prominent exchange and vacation rental brands. The industry and timeshare ownership market leader, Wyndham Vacation Ownership develops, markets, and sells vacation ownership interests and provides consumer financing to owners through its network of 210 vacation ownership resorts serving approximately 904,000 owners throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific. Based in Parsippany, Wyndham Worldwide employs over 34,000 associates globally.

 

Woman admits driving getaway car of Parsippany bank robbery

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Woman admits driving getaway car of Parsippany bank robbery

MORRISTOWN — A 30-year-old Newark woman admitted Monday that she drove the getaway car for a friend during two bank robberies in 2013 in Parsippany and Springfield. Quiama S. Harris pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree robbery, admitting that she drove the car and took some of the proceeds from the robberies on Dec. 18,…

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Veteran’s service dog kicked out of Lake Hiawatha 7-Eleven

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Veteran’s service dog kicked out of Lake Hiawatha 7-Eleven

PARSIPPANY — A military veteran said he was asked to remove his service dog from a Lake Hiawatha convenience store on Memorial Day. Michael Deitch alleges the 7-Eleven on North Beverwyck Road in Parsippany violated the Americans with Disabilities Act, News 12 New Jersey reported. He went into the store to get water for his dog,…

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House Fire on Sedgefield Drive; video and photos

Nicolas Limanov
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House Fire on Sedgefield Drive; video and photos

PARSIPPANY — A house fire was reported on Sedgefield Drive, on Tuesday, May 16.  Mount Tabor Volunteer Fire District 1, Lake Parsippany Volunteer Fire District 3, Parsippany Volunteer Fire District 6, and the Cedar Knolls Volunteer Fire Department Rapid Intervention Team all responded to the scene.


Parsippany Emergency Medical Services, Parsippany Volunteer Ambulance Squad and the Rockaway Neck First Aid Squad all reported to the scene as well.  After a lengthy battle with flames, firefighters were able to bring the fire under control. The fire caused severe damage to the home. Smoke was so heavy at times that reports of smoke set off alarms at Parsippany Hills High School which brought out Rainbow Lakes Volunteer Fire District 2 to the school.

No injuries were reported.  The Parsippany Police Department, Parsippany Police Fire Investigator, Patrol Officer David Cavaliere, the Morris County Sheriff’s Department, and the Morris County Prosecutor’s office are all investigating the cause of the fire.

House fire on Sedgefield Drive

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House fire on Sedgefield Drive

PARSIPPANY — Parsippany Police reported a working house fire on Sedgefield Drive.  Parsippany Focus will update this article shortly with photographs, our photograhers are on the scene

Sedgfield Drive between Ferncliff Road and Exeter Street is closed to traffic. Avoid area to allow for emergency vehicles. 

Letter to the editor: “No taxation without Representation”

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lettersDear Editor:

I have been a resident of Parsippany for close to 50 years and during that time I have watched as Parsippany has been the forgotten community when it comes to County Government. Whether it is done on purpose or by accident, it seems that the people in County Government feel that we do NOT need anyone from Parsippany to represent us on the Board of Freeholders..

Again this year there is a concentrated effort to get rid of the only person on the Board of Freeholders who actually lives in Parsippany. That person is John Cesaro. Why do they do this? Is not the largest community in North Western New Jersey deserving of representation on our county government???

I have gotten a ton a fliers telling me this about John Ceasro, telling me that about John Cesaro, but all I know is that we have not had an increase in our country taxes in the three years that Mr. Cesaro has been a Freeholder. Our credit rating has stayed in the excellent range when the state of New Jersey has been dropping like a stone. Young people are moving INTO Morris County instead of out of it.

But, far more important is that John Cesaro IS from Parsippany, he has spent his adult life here in Parsippany, he married a young women who also grew up HERE in Parsippany and Mr. Cesaro and his family live now HERE in Parsippany.

We cannot allow Parsippany to have NO representation on our county governing body, the town that sends the most money to Morris County and we would have no say in how that money is spent if we do not have someone watching of best interest. We have John Cesaro now, lets make sure that we maintain him as OUR representative on the Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders.

I urge everyone from Parsippany who votes to lay aside petty party differences, and vote in the Republican Primary in June to keep John Cesaro, FROM PARSIPPANY representing US, republicans, democrats and independents as OUR Chosen Freeholder.

Stephen J. Roman Sr.

Memorial Day … a day remembering the people who died while serving in the country’s armed forces

Frank L. Cahill
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Memorial Day … a day remembering the people who died while serving in the country’s armed forces

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country’s armed forces. The holiday, which is observed every year on the last Monday of May, originated as Decoration Day after the American Civil War in 1868, when the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans — established it as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. By the 20th century, competing Union and Confederate holiday traditions, celebrated on different days, had merged, and Memorial Day eventually extended to honor all Americans who died while in the military service. It typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end.

Many people visit cemeteries and memorials, particularly to honor those who have died in military service. Many volunteers place an American flag on each grave in national cemeteries.

Annual Decoration Days for particular cemeteries are held on a Sunday in late spring or early summer in some rural areas of the American South, notably in the mountain areas. In cases involving a family graveyard where remote ancestors as well as those who were deceased more recently are buried, this may take on the character of an extended family reunion to which some people travel hundreds of miles. People gather on the designated day and put flowers on graves and renew contacts with relatives and others. There often is a religious service and a picnic-like “dinner on the ground,” the traditional term for a potluck meal in which people used to spread the dishes out on sheets or tablecloths on the grass. It is believed that this practice began before the American Civil War and thus may reflect the real origin of the “memorial day” idea.

Memorial Day is not to be confused with Veterans Day; Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving, while Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans.

Transformer fire; Hotel guests stuck in elevators

Nicolas Limanov
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Transformer fire; Hotel guests stuck in elevators

PARSIPPANY — A transformer caught fire on Smith Road, across the street from the Sheraton Parsippany Hotel, and caused a power outage in the area.

The Sheraton Parsippany lost power and there were guests stuck in the elevator, and was released before Parsippany Rescue and Recovery arrived at the scene.

Parsippany Troy-Hills Fire District 6 arrived at the scene and extinguished the area below the transformer which caught on fire.

The Parsippany Volunteer Ambulance Squad was dispatched to the scene, but was canceled before arrival.

There were no injuries and power was only lost for a short period of time.

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Firemen from Parsippany Volunteer Fire Department District 6 putting out the brush fire
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The transformer fire cause the area across from Parsippany Sheraton to catch on fire
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The brush fire on Smith Road
The fire in the bushes caused by the transformer
The fire in the bushes caused by the transformer

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