800 fill Cahal concert in Lawrence

CAHAL described its sixth annual concert — a fundraiser for its community-wide special education program — a huge success, drawing a sell-out crowd of nearly 800 last Motzei Shabbos.

The concert, at Lawrence High School, featured such outstanding Jewish performers as Baruch Levine, Dovid Gabay and Simcha Leiner. The always popular Shloime Dachs and the Shloime Dachs Orchestra accompanied the performers.

YSTUDS, an up and coming Yeshiva University A-Cappella group, opened the show.

CAHAL Founder and Vice President Richard Altabe said the program has helped hundreds of Jewish neshamos receive a yeshiva education in self-contained small classes with individualized attention.

He described how CAHAL began, inspired by Dr. Norman Blumenthal and the principals of the founding yeshivas, and thanked the program’s directors, Naomi Nadata and Alice Feltheimer, for their years of dedication to the children. CAHAL has been able to mainstream many children from the program into the yeshivas attended by their siblings and friends, he said.