Photo Essay: Future HAFTR

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Photos by Joe Sperber for The Jewish Star
Issue of Sept. 12, 2008
The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway has broken ground on its new Torah and Athletic Center on Central Avenue in Lawrence.

Pictured from left to right: Stephen Wallach, Building Chairman; Scott Sulzberger, Co-President; Marty, Melodie and Robbie Scharf; Zoltan and Judith Lefkovits; Avi Lauer, Chairman of the Board; State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos; Mayor of the Village of Lawrence Simon Felder; Michael Schreiber, Co-President and Michael Fragin, Trustee of the Village of Lawrence. The new facility will connect to existing HAFTR buildings and include a Beit Midrash with a seating capacity of over 300. Many Machon HaTorah and HAFTR families attended the ceremony, as did Rabbi Kenneth Hain, spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Sholom and Rabbi Kalman Topp, assistant rabbi of the Young Israel of Woodmere.