Relatives of the Uvalde, Texas, schoolchildren were taken to a “reunification” center after the gunman did his work. That struck me — the word reunification.
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6/2/22
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As music streamed from an iPad several Lawrence Middle School students and a few from the area private schools worked on coloring a 20’ x 8’ mural on a wall in one of the two rooms that …
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/19/22
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The hallways at Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School were darkened on the morning of April 28. The only light emanated from yahrzeit candles held by students as they stood outside classrooms. At 9:20 a.m., a siren sounded — as sirens had sounded earlier that day in Israel.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/5/22
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In the waning weeks of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln realized that sooner rather than later, the tens of thousands of Union soldiers returning from the battlefield would be forced to fend for themselves.
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4/21/22
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Long awaited, spring, the season of beginnings, has begun. Though it happens with astronomical regularity . . .
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By John O'Connell
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3/31/22
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As the sun sails northward and we stand in the doorway known as spring, between a stark winter and a hopeful-looking summer, there is a passion to embrace life again . . .
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3/24/22
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If you have children or grandchildren, you likely think about them all the time. You imagine them smiling and laughing . . .
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3/24/22
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These days, we smile or roll our eyes when we hear the term “fashion police,” but leading up to the Nixon administration, wearing the wrong outfit could land an otherwise innocent young woman in hot water.
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3/3/22
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The second annual Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School Invitational girls’ varsity basketball tournament was a huge success.
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By Elisabeth Gurtman
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2/17/22
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Center for Adult Life Enrichment Executive Director Lee Gerardi personally welcomes and walks members into what was the carriage house of the Hewlett estate on the Hewlett High School campus at 37 East Rockaway Road.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/13/22
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