Menorah Park Welcomes New Rabbi, Director of Spiritual Living Avraham Cohen, Menorah Park’s new director of spiritual living, spent 15 years in the U.S. Air Force as a chaplain, and thus has abundant experience in strategic leadership and management, supervisory responsibilities and pastoral care in a high-pressure environment. He was trusted advisor and confidante to senior leadership and junior ranks. Raised in Pittsburgh, he graduated from Mt. Lebanon High School in 1982. Deep family connections to Cleveland have kept him tied to the Northeast Ohio. “My mother was raised in Shaker Heights, along with her two sisters and brother; and my grandparents are both first-generation Cleveland-born. My father also has relatives here,” added Rabbi Cohen. Rabbi Cohen attended Northwestern University, and graduated in 1987 with a BA in humanities. He worked for a year in restaurant franchise management, then traveled to Israel to explore kibbutz-living and get in touch with his Jewish roots, while he worked toward a career direction – law school, business school, or rabbinical school. His education and travels led him to Aish HaTorah, an Orthodox yeshiva, where he studied from 1989 to 2000, when he became a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force. In 2014, Rabbi Cohen was in Cleveland visiting his son at Telz Yeshiva, and went to visit his grandmother, Beatrice Wyse, at Wiggins Place. That’s how he found out about the the career opportunity on the Menorah Park campus. Cohen is married to Anne Brock from Capetown, South Africa, and has five children: Adina (24), Yitzhak (23), Yaakov (22), Ruth (20), and Yosef (16). Hannah Cantlie Named 2015 Homecoming Queen Congratulations to the 2015 top-three Homecoming Queen candidates, Hannah Cantlie, Kayla Harrison and Brianna Weisman. On Saturday, Sept. 26, during halftime of the Beachwood-Geneva football game, Hannah Cantlie was named 2015 Homecoming Queen. Cantlie participates in SAY, the Spanish Club, Leadership program and Cleveland club. She was also captain of the soccer and lacrosse teams and loves sports, music, school and her friends and family. Cantlie plans to study neuroscience and Spanish after high school graduation. Representing the remainder of the Homecoming Court for 2015 are Sydney Leikin and Zachary Chylla, Class of 2019; Olivia Adelman and Max Alter, class of 2018; and Alyssa Blum and Gabriel Sweeney, class of 2017. Cleveland Memory Project Founder to Speak to Jewish Genealogy Society William C. Barrow, co-founder of the Cleveland Memory Project, is the featured speaker at the Sunday, Jan. 10 meeting of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland. He will demonstrate the project's web site (ClevelandMemory.org), and show how to apply its contents to genealogy research. Bill Barrow is the head of Special Collections at Cleveland State's Michael Schwartz Library and a co-founder of the Cleveland Memory Project on the web (ClevelandMemory.org). He speaks on the history of Cleveland Memory, the more than 60,000 local history resources found there and how to profitably use Cleveland Memory and Special Collections to do family history research. Bill is a Cleveland native and has worked at Cleveland State for 20 years, where he earned a BA and MA in history; he received his Master’s degree in library science from Kent State University. He is on the boards of the Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve, the Cleveland Archival Roundtable, the Sculpture Center, and the Cleveland Heights Historical Society. The Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland holds its winter meetings on Sundays, starting at 1:30 pm, in the Lelyveld Library of Anshe-Chesed Fairmount Temple, 23737 Fairmount Blvd. Board members are available from 1 pm to assist with individual research questions. Guests are welcome. RSVP to Programming@ClevelandJGS.org. Pictured: Queen Hannah Cantlie pictured with Pam Ogilvy and Missy Buddenhagen, Beachwood High School Social Studies teachers; and Homecoming Queen Finalists Hannah Cantlie, Kayla Harrison and Brianna Weisman pictured with their families. He will demonstrate the project’s web site (ClevelandMemory.org), and show how to apply its contents to genealogy research. 52 Beachwood Buzz n December 2015