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ulian Sandler, board chairman
of Hillel: The Foundation for
Jewish Campus Life, has died.
Mr. Sandler, who served Hillel for
15 years, died March 20, 2009, after a
brief illness. He was 64.
He served as treasurer and vice
chair of the Hillel board of directors
and as chair of its strategic planning
committee.
Sandler recently established the
Julian Sandler Endowment for
Executive Leadership Development
to support Hillel's training, executive
leadership development, mentoring,
coaching and evaluation program for
new Hillel directors.
He was the founder, president and
CEO of Long Island-based national

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SmartSource Computer and Audio
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Sandler was a past president and an
active member of the Dix Hills Jewish
Center on Long Island. He also was
a board member of the Fay J. Linder
assisted living complex at the Gurwin
Jewish Geriatric Center and a mem-
ber of the rabbinical school board of
overseers at the Jewish Theological
Seminary.
"Julian had a gift for blending his
keen analytical abilities with his
genuine warmth and humor," said
Hillel President Wayne Firestone. "He
believed in the critical importance
of transmitting Yiddishkeit from
generation to generation and
modeled what it means to be a proud,
knowledgeable, committed Jew with
mentshlichkeit."

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arry Borden, a U.K.-based
photographer whose works
are included on the collec-
tions of the National Portrait Galleries of
Britain and Australia, is coming to Israel
this week as part of a personal project to
document Holocaust survivors.
Borden, 44, is best known for his por-
traits of celebrities and other influential
public figures, including former British
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
But Borden is currently engaged in
a more profound body of work — the
documentation of Holocaust survivors,
a project that seeks to contribute to the
battle against Holocaust denial.
He explained: "When, as a child, my
father bluntly explained that I would
have been killed by Hitler, it naturally

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had a marked effect on me — and I
never forgot how unjust it seemed.
"It makes me angry that, with time,
foolish and sinister people feel are able
to deny the Holocaust ever happened.
And with this in mind, I decided to
make my modest contribution — a
series of portraits."
Borden plans to turn the portraits
into a book interspersed with a recol-
lection from each person in their own
handwriting. So far he has photo-
graphed 75 individuals in Britain and
Australia, and hopes to eventually shoot
at least 150.
On Friday, March 27, he will be arriv-
ing in Israel for two weeks with the
hope of finding survivors who would
be willing to be photographed for the
project and add their handwritten rec-
ollection. _

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