Los Angeles Ner Shoshana Fund

Los Angeles Reception for Ner Shoshana Fund

May 9, 2012

Ner Shoshana Dessert Reception covered by Hamodia.

On Sunday evening May 6, 2012, the Los Angeles community attended a
reception for the Ner Shsoshana Fund of the ETTA Center. The fund was
established in memory of Mrs. Shoshana Breehbaum, Hy"d.

The tragic murder of Shoshana reminds us of that terrible period, over
a decade ago, when Arab suicide bombers managed to enter our cities and
murder innocent men, women and children.

In 2001 there were forthy bombings. Among those bombings was the
attack on August 9, 2012, at the Sbarro pizza restaurant, located at the
corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in Yerushalayim, one of the
busiest pedestrian crossings in Eretz Yisrael.

It was around 2 P.M., when the restaurant was filled with customers
and pedestrian traffic outside was at its peak, that a suicide bomber
carrying explosives detonated his bomb. This Palestinian terrorits
attack on Sbarro in downtown Yerushalayim resulted in the death of
fifteen Jews and 130 wounded. Hy"d.

Among those murdered on that Sunday afternoon was Shoshana Hayman Greenbaum, Hy"d.

Shoshana, who grew up in Los Angeles and whose parents made Aliyah
shortly after that tragic day, was a teacher for over 12 years in Jewish
day schools. Her love and concern for all her students was manifest in
her teaching style and relationships with her students.

It was her dream that every Jewish child find a place in a Jewish day
school. The Los Angeles ETTA Center, through the Ner Shoshana Fund, has
been providing for children in our our community with special needs to learn within a Jewish environment.

The Fund was started by Eliyahu Dovid and Shifra Hayman as a lasting memory of their daughter.

Another program is the Ner Yaakov Class, in memory of Reb Aharon
Yaakov Kornwasser, z"l, located on the campus of Yeshiva Rav Isaacsohn.
That program provides an academically focused Jewish educational program
for elementary and middle school age boys with learning disabilities.

The reception was held in the gardens of Lorraine and Steve Spira, the
evening's hosts. The evening's emcee was Yanky Lunger, who introduced
Eliyahu Dovid Hayman, father of Shoshana, a"h, followed by Rabbi Asher
Rosenberg, a parent whose child is in the program, and then students
Daniel Bass, Joey Brecher and Asher Muller, who explained the students'
projects. The last to speak was Dr. Michael Held, Executive Director of
the ETTA Center. The evening concluded with the singing of Gadol Aaron
Stern and Yitzy Lunger, with Yanky Lunger, and coordinated by Rabbi
Benzion Litenatsky.

The large turnout and support by the community was well received.
A version of this article appeared in print.