They might have been the original “You had me at hello” couple.
When Karen Gibbs, 18, went on a blind date in May 1965 with Columbia University Law School student Gerald “Jerry” Morganstern, 22, he was saying good night when he added, “While I’ve got you here . . .”
Gibbs, who would become his wife, replied simply, “You’ve got me.”
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/7/19
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Laugh the night away with some of the top comics on the circuit.
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10/5/18
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To encapsulate the career of Georgiana Wolfson in a few hundred words would not do justice to how much this Oceanside has accomplished in 66 years from working as a dental assistant to executive director of the Center for Adult Life Enrichment in Hewlett.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/5/18
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A little more than six months after pleading guilty to the 2007 killing of Rowan Clarke during an attempted home invasion robbery, Kensil Dexter Fender was sentenced to 25 years in prison in Brooklyn federal court on June 25.
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/26/18
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A man who was seen jumping off the roof of a house on Howard Avenue in Woodmere and then running through adjacent yards was arrested at 10:02 p.m. on April 3, police said.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/6/18
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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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Jeffrey Resnick, a certified public accountant from Woodmere, is now with the Friedman accounting firm in Manhattan as a tax partner, he was formerly a partner with WeiserMazars LLP.
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1/8/18
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Audrey and Max Wagner, of Woodmere, will be two of six people who will be honored for their volunteer efforts by AMIT at the organization’s annual dinner at Pier Sixty in New York City on Sunday, Nov. 19. The Wagners are the guests of honor.
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11/7/17
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Helene Kaufman née Popover, of Keene, New Hampshire, was a former hospital administrator who volunteered at her synagogue for 30 years and lived in Brooklyn and Woodmere. She died on Sept. 11, at Maplewood Nursing Home in Westmoreland. She was 93.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/21/17
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Standing in front of seven women at the Chabad of Hewlett, Rebbitzen Rivkie Tenenboim struck a long wooden match and ignited a flame to illustrate that God, according to the Jewish Bible, created light first — a spark that culminates with a bat or bar mitzvah for girls or boys, respectively, as they take on the responsibilities of Judaism.
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By Jeff Bessen
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7/20/17
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