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Dor L’Dor: HAFTR celebrates its 38th year

Posted Wednesday, February 24, 2016 12:00 am

From left: Naomi Maron, Richard Maron (HAFTR Grad), Evan and Royce Maron (both HAFTR grads), Sandra Maron (HILI Grad), Reuben Maron (former parent, past HAFTR president, current grandparent, and HAFTR executive director), Robin Maron and Avery Maron (HAFTR Grad). Sandra Engelstein Maron graduated from HILI and continued the school legacy by sending all of her boys — Richard, Evan and Avery — to HAFTR. Now her three sons are HAFTR parents as well, with children who are both HAFTR grads and current HAFTR students.

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Arthur Nathan and Amanda Gluck, two former students. Amanda is now a HAFTR parent.

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From left: Daniel Kuflik and Lisa Cooperberg Kuflik (both HAFTR grads and current HAFTR parents) with Lisa’s parents, Shevy and Richie Cooperberg (both HILI graduates and former HAFTR parents).

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More than 325 people participated in the 38th annual dinner of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, held Sunday night at the HAFTR Sports Complex in Lawrence.

This year, the HAFTR community paid tribute to our Three Generation Families who have each attended either Hillel, HILI or HAFTR and continued the school legacy by enrolling their children.

HAFTR was established in 1978 as a merger between two outstanding South Shore day schools — Hebrew Institute of Long Island (HILI), which served the Rockaway and budding Five Towns communities since 1936, and the Hillel School, which was founded in 1957 to serve the area’s growing needs.

Since 1978, HAFTR has been setting a standard of excellence for American Jewish yeshiva education on both the lower and secondary levels.

HAFTR’s three generation families honored this year include the families of:

Alpert (Small, Weinrib)

Aschheim (Lazar)

Bernstein (Waxman)

Bertram (Orenstein, Lesnick)

Bienenfeld (Brafman, Lent)

Bokor

Brafman Cooperberg (Kuflik)

Engelstein (Maron)

Friedman (Romanoff)

Goldsmith (Goldstein Gomberg)

Hammerman (Lifshitz, Scheer)

Horowitz (Gillman, Glaubach)

Jakubowitz (Eisenberg)

Knoll (Haimm, Wanderer)

Markowitz (Weinrib)

Mermelstein (Gross, Lauer)

Miller

Nathan (Gluck)

Rosenthal (Gurtman)

Rosenzweig (David, Rotenberg)

Sicklick

Sicklick (Hoffman)

Slotkin (Hizme, Rudensky)

Stawski (Schechter)

Sturm (Strauss)

Wallach (Rosenberg, Farber)

Weissman

Zwiebel

Zwiebel (Bernstein)

Zwiebel (Sobin)

Zwiebel (Zenilman)

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