Contact: Livia Mezrich 609 - 918 9750________________________________________________________________________________________
Rimon’s 9th Annual Summer Musical Interlude Features Classics and Klezmer by Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra Virtuoso Violinist Diana Tsaliovich. She will be accompanied by pianist Andrew Sun, a student at NYU, who was raised in West Windsor and performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Tanglewood Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts. Diana’s parents live in West Windsor.
The Rimon Avodat HaLev Service of the Heart Award will be presented at the concert to East Windsor Residents Laurie-Dinerstein Kurs and Steve Kurs for their commitment to Rimon and to the broader community.
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East Windsor, NJ. On Thursday, August 2nd, 2012 at 7:00 p.m., Diana Tsaliovich, formerly the first violinist with the Finnish National Opera, and now a member of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra will perform at Rimon, the Center for Jewish Arts, Culture, and Religion in East Windsor, New Jersey. Ms Tsalioivch, will once again delight the audience with her lively performance of classics and klezmer music. She will be accompanied by pianist Andrew Sun, a student at NYU, who was raised in West Windsor and performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Tanglewood Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts. Diana’s parents live in West Windsor .
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The Rimon Avodat HaLev Service of the Heart Award will be presented at the concert to Laurie-Dinerstein Kurs and Steve Kurs for their commitment to Rimon and to the broader community. Laurie has been very involved in spearheading many of our wonderful programs including our P.O.R.K. program (a support group for parents of religious kids) which has received national recognition, an inclusion program for people with special needs run jointly with the Boggs Center at Rutgers University, and our honoring of the Veterans of Foreign wars on Memorial Day.
Many people have been touched by Laurie and Steve's commitment to chesed - good deeds and kindness to others. Rabbi Laurie has been the community chaplain, an organizer of bikur cholim, (a volunteer group to visit sick people) a co-founder of P.ORK, the founder of the community chevra Kaddisha , (a volunteer group that prepares the bodies for burial according to Jewish tradition), and also serves as Vice President of the national chevra kaddisha association Kavod V'Nachum . Recently she has been appointed as Democratic Committeewoman for East Windsor.
Steve has served on the East Windsor rescue squad, on the board of the East Windsor Municipal Utilities Authority and as Vice President of the 9th District NJ State First Aid Council. He has been Campaign treasurer for various political candidates and has been Treasurer of the Democratic Committee as well as Committeeman for the East Windsor Democratic committee.
Rimon, the Mordecai T. Mezrich Center for Jewish Learning is located directly across from the historic Lee’s Turkey Farm in East Windsor, at 483 Dutch Neck Road.
For information about Rimon programming and for tickets and reservations for our August 2nd Summer Musical Interlude please call 609-918-9750, contact Livia Mezrich at info@rimoncenter.org, or visit us on the web at www.rimoncenter.org. This event is open to the entire community.
This program is made possible in part by the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission through funding from the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, A Partner Agency of the National Endowment of the Arts
