Special Event - April 13, 2010

The Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage and The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center of The Richard Stockton College of NJ Present: Witnesses To Genocide: Major Brent Beardsley and Carl Wilkens.

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Special Event - March 13, 2010

March 13, 2010: A Bar Mitzvah celebration at The Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage
On Saturday, March 13, a very special 5:30 PM service will be held to celebrate the bar mitzvah of Noah Ritz. Noah is the son of Steven and Sharon Golove Ritz of Cherry Hill, N.J. The service will be followed by an oneg before the family and guests move on to Vineland for a reception.

Noah Ritz is the great grandson of Ed Golove, who grew up in Woodbine and became a bar mitzvah at the Brotherhood Synagogue in 1924. Golove, now 98 and living in Connecticut, has spoken fondly of his young life in Woodbine. Now frail and unable to travel, he keeps a framed picture of the synagogue in his residence. His granddaughter, Sharon Golove Ritz, and her husband thought it would be meaningful for their son Noah to read from the Torah in the same synagogue, which is now known as the Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage. The Ritz Family will also provide their own Torah, which was brought to the United States by Steven Ritz’ great grandfather. In Hebrew there is an expression “L’Dor V”Dor”, which means from generation to generation. And so it will be.

Special Event - March 5, 2010

March 5, 2010: The Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage celebrates Women's History Month
In recognition of Women’s History Month, the Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage will continue its annual “Sheroe Essay Contest” held in conjunction with the 4th through 8th graders of the Woodbine elementary School. Each of the classes, including the boys, is asked to submit essays describing the woman who has made the biggest impression in their lives. Each student receives a certificate for participation and the winners receive gift certificates to Staples. Judging is done by educators from the Woodbine Elementary School. This is the fourth year for the contest which is sponsored exclusively by the Sam Azeez Museum and was created to encourage academic expression by the students.

The winning essays will be read in an assembly scheduled for Thursday, March 25, 2010 which will be held at the Museum in the synagogue on the second floor. The event is free and open to the public.

The annual event also includes the announcement of the Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage Lifetime Achievement Award, which is presented to a woman who has been a role model for the youth of the area. This year the award will be presented posthumously to Elizabeth “Betty” Corson, who passed away on February 16, 2010. Betty was at the heart of the Cape May County Board of Agriculture and was the coordinator of the Master Gardeners Program at Rutgers Cooperative Extension. A woman of great consequence, Betty was an avid researcher and active in every aspect of the abundant agricultural life of Cape May County. She was a driving force for the Cape May County Beach Plum Association, and a volunteer in multiple organizations.

Special Events

Come and experience a sneak preview of soon to be a permananet exhibit dedicated to the German and Austrian Jewish families who escaped from the Holocaust and found peace and freedom in Woodbine.
A plaque honoring the fifteen families will be dedicated at a special reception soon to be announced.