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Kathleen Rice
In the 4th Congressional District, send Rice back to Washington
To slash through the sea of partisanship that now engulfs Congress, strong proponents of bipartisanship and people of action are needed. more
Several synagogues, three churches, the Sikh Forum and the Masjid Hanza mosque of Valley Stream will join together for a prayer vigil in memory of the Pittsburgh shooting victims on Oct. 31.
Temple Hillel in North Woodmere to host prayer vigil on Oct. 31
Temple Hillel, at 1000 Rosedale Road in North Woodmere is holding a prayer vigil on Wednesday, Oct. 31 at 7:30 p.m., in memory of the victims of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27. more
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The National Council of Jewish Women-Peninsula Section sponsored a gun violence prevention program at the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre on Oct. 14. From left program Chairwoman Carole Tolkin and speakers Nicole Hockley and Jeff Kasky.
Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre hosts gun violence prevention forum
Two different viewpoints were offered by Nicole Hockley and Jeff Kasky, but the diverse paths hopefully lead to the same destination. Reducing gun violence.Hockley, who with a few other parents … more
Taylor Yon, 16, top, survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. She and fellow survivor Zoe Gordon, 15, came to Stony Brook University recently for the Robert W. Greene Summer Institute for High School Journalists.
Inside the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
Part seven in an ongoing series. Sixteen-year-old Taylor Yon found comfort in Pine Trails Park, virtually in the center of Parkland, Fla. There, she and her friends wandered its sidewalks, past its familiar playgrounds, ball fields and band shell, and lit candles for the dead. Afterward, they sat on towels on the ground and talked for hours, struggling to put into words, to understand, the massacre perpetrated by a one-time student of their school, whom the Herald is not identifying. more
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Lawrence School District emergency procedures and vital contact information.
Ratcheting up school security in the Five Towns
The second of two stories examining school safety. more
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In the video “How To Make a Bully (From Scratch),” the bully has an aggressive personality, while the victim is passive by nature.
Feeling a loss of school safety
In the aftermath of the latest mass school shooting, school districts in the Five Towns are addressing the issues of security and safety in order to better protect their students and staffs, while trying to maintain a welcoming atmosphere. more
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Roughly 70 Hofstra University students took part in a march across campus on March 14 to call for stricter gun control.
Hofstra students march to end mass shootings
Editor's note: Melanie Haid is a freshman journalism major at Hofstra University. This piece originally appeared in the Hofstra Chronicle, the student-run newspaper. Exactly a month after the mass … more
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Keeping the children safe
There have been 18 incidences where shots have been fired on school grounds to this date in 2018, according to Everytown, an organization that works to stop gun violence in the United States. The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 14 became the ninth deadliest massing shooting in modern American history. more
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Country music star Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night became the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. In the crowd was 24-year-old Rockville Centre native Peter Meehan. Above, the concert venue last Friday.
Rockville Centre native ‘grateful’ to survive America’s deadliest shooting
The death toll was climbing steadily on Monday, less than 24 hours after a lone gunman opened fire with an assault weapon from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas during country music star Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. In the crowd at the Aldean concert was Peter Meehan, 24, of Rockville Centre, who flew to Las Vegas last Thursday to attend the three-day music festival with his girlfriend. more
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This isn’t a diatribe about guns
Dec. 14, 2013. It was nail-biting cold. The sort of cold that foreshadowed snowflakes in the coming days but still coddled them in gray-blanketed skies. more
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