Page 10 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • November 23, 2011 Glen Rock Colonel Jack Jacobs (retired), right, a recipient of the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor, spoke at Glen Rock Jewish Center in honor of Veterans Day week. Approximately 130 people were in attendance. Colonel Jacobs has had a long and distinguished military career, and an equally impressive career as a military analyst for NBC News. With humor and an impressive sense for storytelling, he stressed the value of leadership and character, as well as current events in the United States, particularly with respect to our national security. Pictured at right (clockwise from top left): GRJC President Tom Fellig, Rabbi Neil Tow, Col. Jack Jacobs, and Adult Education Chair Elaine ZiffLeibman. Colonel Jacobs delivers Veterans Day address Glen Rock Jewish Center’s Scholar in Residence weekend will feature musician, songwriter, and music historian Mark Levy. Levy will lecture on Jewish music topics and offer a folk music concert on Dec. 3 at 8:30 p.m. and a children’s music program on Sunday, Dec. 4 at 10:30 a.m. Levy, descended from an Ashkenazi (Eastern European) mother and a Sephardi (Spanish-Jewish) father, combines the beautiful melodies of both traditions, with lyrics in English, Yiddish, Spanish, and Ladino, together with Hebrew and Israeli songs, in a versatile performance. Accompanied by guitar and dumbek, a Middle Eastern drum, the selections depict scenes from a bygone era of Jewish life. Scholar in Residence weekend to feature Mark Levy Levy has performed and taught in the San Francisco Bay area for 30 years at synagogues, JCC’s, Lehrhaus Judaica, Workmen’s Circle, and other Jewish groups. He has appeared throughout the U.S., Europe, and Israel, and is a singer and lecturer of older Judaic folk music in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Ladino, Klezmer history and theory, and Jewish music history in general. He has performed for Yeshiva University Sephardic Department’s Semana Sepharad in New York, and is a cantorial soloist in California. His fourth album of Jewish music, “Bin Ikh Mir A Shnayderl: Yiddish Work Songs,” has been released in commemoration of the 100th birthday of Workmen’s Circle, a fraternal order of Jewish workers, and has released several albums of his own satirical songs. Levy will offer lectures “Kabalot Shabbat a Lot: What We Sing and Why to Usher in Shabbat” at the Friday, Dec. 2 service at 8 p.m. and “What is Traditional? A Brief History of Jewish Liturgy” at the Saturday service at 9 a.m. Saturday’s 8:30 p.m. concert will include dessert afterward. Admission for non-members is $10. The Sunday 10:30 a.m. children’s concert is a multi-media presentation. The cost for non-members is $5. The center is located at 682 Harristown Road in Glen Rock. For more information, visit www.grjc.org.