Ridgewood July 17, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 9 Police investigating hit-and-run incident by John Koster The Ridgewood Police Department and the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office of Criminal Identification are investigating a fugitive driver in a two-car accident that injured a pedestrian who was standing on the sidewalk beside South Maple Avenue at Dayton Street on July 11. The driver whose car struck the pedestrian said she had swerved to avoid a vehicle that ran a stop street and appeared suddenly in front of her. She struck the pedestrian and then a utility pole. Observers said the driver of the vehicle that reportedly ran the stop sign parked the vehicle and fled the scene on foot. The male victim, described as seriously injured but conscious and alert, was transported to Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson. (continued on page 16) Photos courtesy of Boyd Loving. Temple Israel continues Summer Music Fridays Temple Israel and JCC of Ridgewood will continue its fourth season of Summer Music Fridays on July 19. This concert will feature violinist and violist Dr. Tamara Reps Freeman, D.M.A., flutist Annette Lieb, and pianist Jonathan Taylor. The program will include works by Beethoven, Ibert, Bach, Ernesto Koehler, Leo Delibes, Paul Schoenfeld, and Dr. Tamara Freeman. Freeman holds a doctorate in music education from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She performs on the violin and viola with the Bergen County Philharmonic Orchestra and as a freelance orchestral musician and soloist. She studied violin with Carnegie Hall violinist Frances Magnes and New York Philharmonic violinist Oscar Ravina. After teaching instrumental music for 30 years in the Ridgewood Public Schools, Dr. Freeman retired on July 1, 2012, to pursue her second career as a Holocaust ethno- Dr. Tamara Freeman, Jonathan Taylor, and Annette Lieb. musicologist. She travels extensively to teach Holocaust music classes and perform recitals on her Joseph Bausch viola, which was rescued from the Holocaust. Dr. Freeman is chair of the Music Committee at Temple Israel. Dr. Freeman will play her own composition, “Niggun [Hebrew for ‘tune’ or ‘melody’] for Tabau Butzell for Solo Viola,” which was written in 2003 as a tribute to the first owner of her Holocaust viola, Tauba Butzell. The piece is programmatic, describing Tauba playing her viola in Berlin, being captured by the Nazis, struggling to keep alive her music during her imminent death in Terezin, and her musical voice continuing in heaven. Lieb plays flute with The Ridgewood Concert Band and is an active flute, saxophone, and clarinet player in area musicals, ensembles, concert bands, and wind ensembles. She played f lute and piccolo from elementary school (continued on page 17)