Books heading to court
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- June
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Here’s a story about books, a teen project and how one boy is his sharing a love of reading with other kids.
For his Bar Mitzvah project, Harrison Palefsky of Cortlandt is collecting children’s books for the Westchester County Court Child Care Center. He’s hoping to gather many full cartons and deliver them to the court where he has heard the youngsters waiting for their parents don’t always have enough to do and could use something to help them idle away the time with purpose.
“I am collecting new and gently used books for children from ages six weeks to thirteen years old. Spanish and board books are particularly needed,” he writes in an announcement to members of Congregation Sons of Israel in Briarcliff, where he studied for his torah reading (and for full disclosure, where I am also a congregant).
When I spoke with Harrison on the telephone this week, he said that “reading is one of the best hobbies someone can have.”
“I read a lot and really wanted to do something for a place near me,” he added. He’s just finishing seventh grade at Solomon Schechter and his mother Barbara Palefsky says she encouraged him to come up with project that would be meaningful to him and others.
Here are some of his favorite books and authors:
•Thomas Friedman’s “From Beirut to Jerusalem”
•Bill Bryson’s funny travel chronicles
•Harry Potter books
Anyone who wants to help Harrison, may drop books in a marked box in the lobby of Congregation Sons of Israel, 1666 Pleasantville Road, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. during non-Shabbat hours.
Check back for a tally of how many he has collected!
(Photo above of the interior of the Westchester County Court for The Journal News by Matthew Brown)
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