BY DEE-DEE GOIDEL
Sondra (Sandy) Nachbar brings to
the Migdal Chapter of North Shore
Towers an unparalleled enthusiasm for
reading. From the age of 15 she knew she
wanted to be a School Librarian and always
considered it to be a wonderful professional
choice.
She was the
School Librarian
at the Bronx High
School of Science
for many years.
However, when
her commute from
Long Island to the
Bronx each day
became more difficult, she became the
School Librarian at Southside High School
in Rockville Centre.
Sandy, as everyone knows her, has been
the catalyst leader for many book discussion
groups through the years. Migdal is honored
Migdal Chapter of Hadassah
Welcomes New Book Discussion Leader, Sandy Nachbar
that as a Hadassah member, she has volun-teered
to be the leader of our Chapter’s Book
Discussion Group.
Sandy and her husband, Norman, have
lived at NST for many years. They have been
married for 57 years and have a daughter
Karen, a son Michael, and two beautiful
grandchildren.
MIGDAL BOOK DISCUSSION RETURNS!
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 4 PM
ON ZOOM
“FLORENCE ADLER SWIMS FOREVER”
“Florence Adler
Swims Forever” by
Rachel Beanland begins
with a shocking trage-dy
that results in three
generations of the Adler
family grappling with
heartbreak, romance,
and the weight of family secrets over the
course of one summer in Atlantic City, 1934.
The essence of the story is about that
secret: A daughter, Florence, has died in
a tragic drowning and the family is deter-mined
not to tell her sister, Fannie, who is
pregnant. “We can’t tell Fannie,” Beanland
writes. “Not when the pregnancy is already
so precarious.”
The New York Times wrote, “The situa-tion
she describes is poignant and the char-acters
she develops win us over with their
private grief. Beanland is particularly good
at conjuring 1930s Atlantic City, with its
small family-owned hotels yielding to larger,
more commercial palaces. The historical
moment is fraught as American Jews try to
save relatives in an increasingly untenable
Nazi Germany.”
“Florence Adler Swims Forever” was
selected as a New York Times Book
Review Editors’ Choice, one of USA
TODAY’s “Best Books of 2020” and the
winner of the 2020 National Jewish Book
Award for Debut Fiction, among other
accolades.
The book is available on Amazon for
$11.88 in paperback or $12.99 on Kindle.
HOW TO REGISTER TO THE ZOOM
Register by February 15 with Judy Paris,
our Zoom maven, at judyparis@twc.com.
Judy will send you an invitation with the
Zoom link and instructions. If you need fur-ther
help, you can call her at 718-819-8293.
As you are aware, you can Zoom on a
computer, iPad, smartphone (IPhone or
Android) as long as you have a personal
email.
Please note if you are not a member
of Hadassah, contact Marcia Jacobson,
Membership Chair, at 718-631-1067 to join.
HADASSAH CERTIFICATES AND CARDS
As the expression states, Migdal “has your back.” It
is prepared to make your life easier to send a Hadassah
Certificate or Card and volunteer Marcia Jacobson is
here to help.
There are many important reasons that you might wish
to send one a certificate or card, which becomes a Double
Mitzvah. Your personal message for the special occa-sion
lets the person know how you feel, and Hadassah
Certificate and Card donations go directly to assist in
Hadassah Medical Research. The groundbreaking results
of that research aid the Medical World.
HOW TO PURCHASE A CERTIFICATE OR CARD
1. Call Marcia Jacobson at 718-631-1067
2. She will take all your information.
3. If you have special message for the Card or Certificate,
give it to her.
4. If you need help to think of a message, she will help
you or suggest one.
5. Leave a check made out to Hadassah. Certificates
cost $36 and Cards cost $18.
6. Put the check and message in a sealed envelope and
leave it for Marcia Jacobson, Bldg. 3, Apt. 25L.
7. Remember to include your telephone numbers plus
your name, Apt. and Bldg. Numbers.
8. Marcia will mail the certificate or card for you.
Hadassah Has a New CEO, Naomi Adler
On September 1, 2021, Naomi
Adler began her work with
Hadassah. With approximately
300,000 members, donors and
supporters, it is the country’s
largest Jewish women’s orga-nization.
Her connection with
Hadassah began two decades
before she was even born. If we
believe in Beshert (destiny), you
will find her connection to the
organization quite amazing coincidence.
Adler’s grandparents, noted cantor Hugo
Chain Adler and his wife Selma, stepped
off the ship in New York--a ship that had
taken them from their home in Germany
via London. Hadassah was one of the core
organizations that embraced the couple. The
year was 1939 and they had escaped in time
not to be rounded up with other Jewish citi-zens
Naomi Adler
of Mannheim. But hearing the story as a
child of her family’s escape to freedom, Adler
could not have dreamed that one day she
would head up Hadassah, the organization
that helped her grandparents in their earliest
days as refugees.
Born in 1966, Adler grew up in Rochester,
NY. Her father was composer-conductor
Samuel Adler and her mother Carol Adler
was a writer, poet and publisher. After grad-uating
from
Mount Holyoke College and Buffalo
University School of Law, she became an
assistant district attorney for Monroe County
specializing in fighting for the rights of vic-tims
of domestic and elder abuse. Her next
opportunity destined to grow her
commitment to the underserved
was running two NY United
Ways for 13 years-first, the
United Way of Rockland County,
then the one in Westchester and
Putnam.
“While growing up and in
these United Ways, I saw how
often it was the Jews who were
the board members and the
advocates for important causes for change,”
said Adler. She took this observation with
her into the Jewish Federation of Greater
Philadelphia, where she would spend the
next six years as CEO and president. She
has testified about anti-Semitism, charity tax
policy, health care and emergency services
before the Congressional Ways and Means
Committee. She was nationally recognized
for her work during the hurricanes--Sandy,
Irene and Lee. She enjoys working with
volunteers and putting safety nets around
organizations.
“I love the art and science of fundraising,
creating deep relationships with those who
can make a philanthropic difference,” she
says.” “It takes time to get to know each
person and what matters most to them, but
finding the right project that makes them
feel like they’re changing the world is the
greatest mitzvah.”
Hadassah president Rhoda Smolow said
they interviewed many well qualified appli-cants
and during the second round, “We
looked at each other and said, ‘Naomi.’”
Sandy Nachbar
February 2022 ¢ NORTH SHORE TOWERS COURIER 11
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