Shul president Judith K. Weiner is one of 20 artists named in an international competition sponsored by Long Island’s Heckscher Museum of Art for its innovative Instagram Takeover Series. Each artist selected is invited to take over the museum’s Instagram account for an entire day, raising the artist’s visibility, sharing her work with thousands of the museum’s followers, and generating traffic to the artist’s Instagram account and website, @judithkaufmanweiner/. A selection of the artist’s current paintings and prior work will be visible on Instagram @heckschermuseum on Wednesday, August 24.

Coinciding with the Heckscher Museum invitation, Judith Weiner is showing several paintings in a group show, “Summer Abstractions,” at the Ilon Art Gallery in Harlem, where one of her paintings will be offered also as an NFT (nonfungible token). An NFT is a digital collectible listed on the blockchain, which provides authentication and provenance to each purchaser, while protecting the artist.

Ilon Art Gallery, located in an historic brownstone in Harlem, specializes in painting, sculpture, photography and street art. The gallery’s new NFT Shop promotes and sells NFT’s online.

Peter Stein, son of shul members Ken and Nancy Stein was featured in the July-August issue of Avenue Magazine. Peter, who started his own oyster farm, Peeko Oysters, in New Suffolk, six years ago, supplies many of the best restaurants in New York City.

Peter told Avenue that when he was a teenager, his father would take him to the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station as a special treat. Little did he know back then that oysters would become his life’s work and passion. He harvests daily out of Little Peconic Bay, and a day’s haul could yield 3,000 oysters, Avenue reported.

Stein calls what he does “mariculture,” more commonly known as aquaculture, and he cannot overemphasize its importance. “This is a cultural renaissance, working waterfront farms. This is regenerative ocean farming.” Unlike land farms, mariculture does not introduce anything into the process. “We just tend to the oysters in a self-contained ecosystem. We are nurturers,” he said.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City has announced that Elyse Buxbaum will become chief operating officer. Previously, Ms. Buxbaum served as executive vice president for strategy and development.

In her new position, she will participate in organizational planning and design, oversee major capital projects, lead fundraising efforts, and shepherd short- and long-term strategic financial planning.

Since joining the museum, Ms. Buxbaum has developed and executed programs to enhance the status of the institution as New York’s Holocaust museum, the third largest in the world.

Elie Horn, the founding partner and chairman of Cyrela Brazil Realty, recognized as one of the largest building and real estate companies in Brazil, has donated $120 million to the University of Haifa. The award will establish the Ahavat Olam Scholarship Program, which aims “to strengthen Israeli society and ensure that young adults are given equal opportunities to succeed.” The Elie Horn pledge is the largest donation ever made in Israel for student scholarships, the university said.

Previously, Elie Horn and his wife Susy established HaGaon M’Vilna Campus Synagogue, which supports Jewish educational programs and scholarships to strengthen Jewish life on campus.

In recognition of his “philanthropy, support of the State of Israel and its people, and his ongoing commitment to campus life,” the University of Haifa awarded Elie Horn a 2022 honorary degree.

U.S. Representative Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for governor of New York, was assaulted at a campaign event on June 28. David G. Jakubonis, 43, has been charged with assaulting Zeldin with a sharp object and could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

Authorities said that Jakubonis climbed onto the stage outside a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Baldwin, NY, near Rochester, and approached Zeldin with a pointed object. Videos of the incident show the attacker attempting to lunge toward Zeldin, but people in the crowd and behind the stage jumped in to respond. Zeldin sustained a minor scrape in the incident. Jakubonis is being held, pending a hearing.

Dozens of stolen ancient artifacts that belonged to U.S. billionaire Michael Steinhardt were recently returned to Italy, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said. Steinhardt, a former hedge fund manager, was once among the world’s most prominent collectors of ancient art. Steinhardt had bought the looted items, including statues and ceremonial vessels, without seeing evidence of their provenance, investigators said.

The announcement follows a years-long investigation into Steinhardt, who avoided charges after he surrendered 180 artifacts, worth an estimated $70 million, and agreed to a lifetime ban on acquiring antiquities.

Sheryl Sandberg has announced that she will leave Meta, the parent company of Facebook, after 14 years as its chief operating officer under Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership. When Zuckerberg hired the Google executive, she called the move “to help another young company grow into a global leader the opportunity of a lifetime.” She said she plans to focus on her personal philanthropy and her foundation, Lean In, and will also remain on Meta’s board of directors. Zuckerberg praised Ms. Sandberg, thanking her for teaching him how to run a company, he said. He has named Javier Olivan, a longtime product executive who has overseen much of Facebook’s growth over the past decade, as Meta’s next COO, The New York Times said.

A Harvard graduate, Ms. Sandberg served as the chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers during the Clinton administration, and made her name in Silicon Valley by helping to build Google’s nascent targeted ads business into a multibillion-dollar juggernaut.

After joining Facebook, she developed its advertising business , helping to create some of Facebook’s advertising formats for desktop computers, before successfully building its mobile advertising strategy. By 2016, Facebook’s revenue was $27.6 billion, compared with the $153 million it generated in 2007 before Ms. Sandberg joined. The ads business remains Meta’s main financial engine.

Ms. Sandberg’s reputation grew with the 2013 publication of her business book, Lean In, a manifesto for working women based on her experience in government and business. It became a bestseller and launched her personal brand.