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As expected, hundreds of students from across Nassau County took part in Wednesday’s planned National School Walkout to remember the 17 victims of the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School a month ago and to call for stricter gun controls, according to student activists and educators.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/13/18
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When acclaimed poet and memoirist Maya Angelou described the makings of a great woman in her 1995 poem “Phenomenal Woman,” she wrote of a female spirit that . . .
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3/2/18
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For at least 10 years, the clock at the intersection of Irving Place and Broadway in Woodmere that is also called NCJW Way for the National Council of Jewish Women, has not worked. It is stuck at 2 o’clock, providing the correct time only twice a day as the old joke goes.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/15/18
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An estimated 200,000 men, women and children took to the streets of Manhattan for the second Women’s March, held on the first anniversary of President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration on …
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By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen, Melissa Koenig and Nakeem Grant
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1/21/18
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Hewlett High School senior Rom Raviv, a member of National Council of Jewish Women-Peninsula Section’s Generation Next, wrote a letter to federal, state and local officials to have them proclaim Oct. 11 as Day of the Girl Child in connection with the United Nations’ international day.
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10/20/17
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The Village of Cedarhurst is hosting a special needs resource fair presented by Assemblywoman Melissa Miller (R-Atlantic Beach) in conjunction with the National Council of Jewish Women-Peninsula Section.
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10/13/17
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People like to think the best of others, including elected and appointed officials at all levels, from your local village to the high hills of Albany or D.C. Our confidence is almost always affirmed, because most local public servants are . . .
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9/22/17
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Minnie Pearl Harris left her native town of New Brocton in Alabama in 1931 at the age of 21 for a better life and with the goal of providing a real home for her parents, Mary and Earlie. Settling in Inwood she accomplished her dream.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/21/17
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On heels of missing out on postseason play for the time in a decade, Hofstra women’s soccer is kicking into high gear for the 2017 season.
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8/25/17
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Roughly 800 children will take part in the fifth annual National Council of Jewish Women’s Back 2 School store on July 30. The event where children “shop” for an array of items and parents can get information on a variety of resources is a collaboration between the Peninsula and South Shore NCJW sections.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/27/17
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