East Hampton - The Jewish Center of the Hamptons will be hosting an array of events throughout July and August.

Nouriel Roubini

Daniel Rose is Chairman of Rose Associates, a New York-based real estate organization. Rose has pursued a career involving a broad range of professional, civic and non-profit activities. He teaches, lectures, and writes on a variety of real estate and planning subjects. Mr. Rose was appointed by President Clinton as Vice Chairman of the Baltic-American Enterprise Fund, a U.S. government-funded organization that for 10 years has stimulated free market business activity. A military intelligence analyst and Russian language specialist with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, he has pursued his interest in foreign affairs as an officer or member of the Foreign Policy Association, the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He was a founding board member of the EastWest Institute. Since 2004, he has been a frequent participant by telephone on Forum, an English language political discussion TV program broadcast from Tehran, Iran.

Dani Fesler of Leo Baeck School (Haifa, Israel) with Ethiopian Jews Gideon and Million lead "Pluralistic and Inclusive Israel" weekend, Friday through Monday, July 23 through July 26.

Dani Fesler, Headmaster and Managing Director at The Leo Baeck School in Haifa, Israel with Ethopian Jews Gideon and his daughter Million, will join The Jewish Center for a weekend of events entitled: "A New Paradigm - A Pluralistic and Inclusive Israel" Friday through Monday, July 23 through July 26. All events are free and open to the public.

Morris Goldberg with Ojoyo

Dani Fesler has taken the Leo Baeck School in Haifa from a small school to a new level of pluralistic education, outreach to Ethiopian Jews, Jews of the Former Soviet Union, and Israeli Arabs. He will share both the creative past and the visionary future. We shall hear and meet two Ethiopian Jews, a father and daughter, Gideon and Million.

Gobeze (Gideon) Wubagegne was born in 1969 in Gondar, Ethiopia, and studied at a Jewish school in Ambobar until the age of 16. In 1986 Gobeze set out on foot to Sudan and immigrated to Israel at the age of 17. In 1990 Gobeze graduated from Leo Baeck High School. He has emerged into the world of Israeli advocacy and hi technology.

Million Wubagegne is a senior at the Leo Baeck School. She has become a leader in community service and social activism at Leo Baeck. She organizes fundraising events, volunteers at Beit Yitzhak, Leo Baeck's early childhood and parenting center for Ethiopian and new immigrant families, and visits and supports children at risk in the shelters and club houses.


Cantor Netanel Hershtik Joins Cantor Debra Stein for Evening of Music Sunday, July 25 at 4 p.m.

Cantor Netanel Hershtik from Hamptons Synagogue in West Hampton and The New York Synagogue Choir, under the leadership of Choral Director Izchak Haimov of The Hamptons Synagogue will join Cantor Debra Stein at The Jewish Center of the Hamptons for an evening of music. This concert is free and all are welcome.

This is a major first. The Cantor and choir of an Orthodox synagogue will be singing at a concert in a Reform synagogue with a female cantor—our Cantor Debra Stein—in our JCOH sanctuary. Join us for this extraordinary moment in Jewish history.

Cantor Debra Stein has served The Jewish Center of the Hamptons for twenty-eight years. Upon graduating from the School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College, she became the Cantor/Educator at The Jewish Center. Cantor Stein has performed concerts of both liturgical and secular music throughout the country, as well as in England, Scotland, Wales, and Israel. She was among the first cantors to sing at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and sang at the Curacao synagogue's 300th anniversary commemoration. Cantor Stein is a former member of the faculty of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion School of Sacred Music and a past board member of the American Conference of Cantors.

Cantor Netanel Hershtik sang with this father in Australia and throughout America and Europe at seven years old. Educated at the Horev Yeshiva High School in Jerusalem and in Yeshivat Midbara Ke'eden, Netanel served as an IDF combat paramedic. He graduated with an L.L.B degree from Sha'arei Mishpat College of Law and recently completed his L.L.M at the University of Miami School of Law. His concert appearances, both in Israel and worldwide, include performances with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and the Symphonet Ra'anana. Hershtik has performed in the world's most acclaimed concert halls such as Lincoln Center, the Sydney Opera House and Casino de Paris. Hershtik was also the first cantor to be invited to perform at the U.N. in a Holocaust remembrance ceremony in 2006.

Netanel Hershtik

The New York Synagogue Choir has performed with great acclaim before a variety of audiences in many concert halls and festivals. With some of America's finest singers, the New York Synagogue Choir is considered to be one of the most important vocal ensembles in the Jewish world. Many of the choir members have independent operatic careers of their own. The choir's wide repertoire spans Jewish liturgical music, Hebrew, Yiddish, Latino, Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, Neapolitan songs, Broadway, Opera and classical pieces.

Holding a degree in Music from the National Music Academy of Tashkent, Izchak Haimov served as choral conductor of the Opera studio after his graduation. After emigration to Israel in 1992, he served at the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv where he performed regularly and arranged liturgical pieces. In 1995, he founded the renowned Renanim choir and then in 2003 he was invited by Rabbi Marc Schneier to create The New York Synagogue Choir.

Summary of Scheduled Events:

 • Friday, July 23: Shabbat on the Beach at 6: p.m.
Integration of Ethiopian Children with Dani Fesler and Ethiopian teen Million.

 • Saturday, July 24 at 10 a.m. during Shabbat Services
Dani Fesler speaks about Pluralism.

 • Sunday, July 25 at 10 a.m.
Dani Fesler speaks about Shared Existence between Jews and Arabs.

 • Sunday, July 25 at 4 p.m.
Cantor Netanel Hershtik Joins Cantor Debra Stein for Evening of Music.

 • Monday, July 26 at 8 p.m.
Movie "The Name My Mother Gave Me" presented by Million and her father, Gobeze (Gideon).