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Profile of Asher J. Matathias
Born December 3, 1943, on a mountain cave outside Volos, Greece, while hiding from the Nazis; family members perished in Thessaloniki's famed Sephardic community ... Arrived with family in New York, January 30, 1956, aboard USS Constitution, victims of shattering earthquakes ... Affiliated with United Sephardim of Brooklyn (New Lots) ...
Graduated Thomas Jefferson High, class of ‘61 ... B.A. from Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus), class of ‘65 ... M.A. from the Graduate Faculty of the New School, class of ‘67; completed course work for Ph.D. in political science at the same school ... Republican and Liberal candidate for Assemblyman, 36 A.D., 1974 ...
More than three decades in the NYC secondary public school system ... Instructor at Manhattan College, continuing as adjunct professor of political science at St. John's University, and former Supervisor of student teachers at Queens College-CUNY ...
Former columnist for the weekly http://www.jewishvoiceny.com/ Frequent public speaker on current events, American government and politics, Shoa, Israel, Greece ... Monthly lecturer on current events, Helen Keller Services for the Blind, Hempstead, NY; lectured at Jewish Community Center of Greater Five Towns, Cedarhurst, NY; annual lecturer at Molloy College Institute of Lifelong Learning ... Lectured on Issues in Judaism Lecture Series, Hofstra University Cultural Center … Presenter on Jews from Arab Lands to the National Council of Jewish Women-Peninsula Section … Liturgical leader for a monthly Oneg Shabbat at the A. Holly Patterson geriatric facility, Uniondale ... Scholar-in Residence, Manhattan Sephardic Congregation; Oceanside Jewish Center; The Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills; assisted in presenting a Sephardic Shabbat at Temple Hillel, North Woodmere ... Docent for the Nassau County Holocaust Educational and Tolerance Center, Glen Cove … AARP defensive driving instructor ... Executive Committee, Association of Magnisias Prefecture Argonauts … President of L.I. Lodge #1353, B'nai B'rith since 1983 ... Role of Fiddler On the Roof's Teveye, John Adams High School Faculty Talent Show, 1973, and the role of "rabbi" in Lawrence High School's production, 2010 ... Participant in Forty Five Seconds from Broadway musical review, produced by the Couples' Club of Congregation Sons of Israel, Woodmere, Spring, 2004; The Bayswater Players, role of Maurice in Social Security, Fall, 2005 … Authored chapter, The Caveman Triumphs, in And Life Changed Forever, Holocaust Childhoods Remembered, published by Wayne University Press in 2006 ... Organizer of the annual Greek Night Concert at the gazebo at Cedarhurst Park … Lecturer at Michigan University's Center of Modern Greek Studies in conjunction with the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit …
Married to Anna since 1970, following a thirteen-day courtship ... Father of three daughters: Miriam (married to Bradley Herman, public high school teacher and assistant principal, parents of Ava-Gwen Hanna-Getel, and Jacob Stanley), Joy (admissions director and Hebrew teacher at the Park East Jewish Day School), married to Peri Avitan (parents of Raquel, and Daniel-Asher), and Sara (former executive at American Arbitration Association, Columbia University M.P.A. graduate at the School of International Affairs and Public Administration), married to Lev Thayer, parents of Jacqueline Hannah …
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