CAMOS AMBASSADORS HELP SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE STAMFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY
September 2009 CAMOS (Committee to Advance Modern Orthodoxy in Stamford) has 12 community members serving in the group and working towards achieving its goals, but the committee has also had the good fortune of having some new Stamford arrivals help fulfill its mission. “We’ve been extraordinarily lucky in that several new couples have volunteered to help promote Stamford as a great place to live,” said Michael Feldstein, who chairs the CAMOS effort. “They recently moved to our community and have been welcomed by CAMOS members and the synagogues in town. They love the warmth and hospitality that has been displayed to them, and they want to recommend Stamford as a place to live to their friends. This is a wonderful new development for us.” One young couple, who moved here from Queens this summer after learning about Stamford from a CAMOS outreach effort, has about a dozen like-minded friends in their old community who will probably be making a move to a suburban community soon. They offered to help CAMOS hold a meeting in Queens to provide their friends with information about Stamford. That will be followed by an invitation to spend a Shabbat weekend here. Doni and Leah Perl, who also moved here this summer from Teaneck, helped arrange a connection to a synagogue in Teaneck that serves an enclave of newly married couples who live in an apartment complex there. CAMOS representatives plan to spend an entire Shabbat in Teaneck later this year, to promote the benefits of moving to Stamford. Angelika and Jeff Schlanger, who moved to Stamford from New Haven this past summer, knew a person who would be doing a medical internship in Connecticut next year—and suggested that he and his wife spend a Shabbat here. They visited Stamford in August, and will probably move here next year. Rabbi Elly Krimsky, the new spiritual leader at the Young Israel of Stamford who just moved to town with his family, knows the rabbi at the synagogue that serves the Einstein Medical School community in the Bronx. Since it’s a transient community (the MDs leave the area once they complete their schooling), Feldstein felt it was a perfect area to target—and Rabbi Krimsky has helped CAMOS make inroads there through his connections. Eric Sigman moved to Stamford a couple of years ago with his family, and has greatly assisted CAMOS in its efforts. He volunteered to help man the Stamford table at the Orthodox Union’s Emerging Communities Fair, and he also recommended a family to attend the CAMOS informational meeting in Riverdale—and the family may be planning a visit to Stamford for a Shabbat soon. “I’ve always felt that the people who live in Stamford are the best spokespeople to promote living here,” said Feldstein. “So it’s particularly gratifying to see so many new arrivals willing to actively endorse our Jewish community.” Comments are closed.
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January 2020
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