It just doesn’t feel like a New Year, even a Jewish New Year. Not when the beach chairs still sit on the sand and heat waves shimmer over the community.
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Randi Kreiss
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9/10/10
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In July 2009, Temple Sinai of Long Island and Temple Emanu-El of Lynbrook merged to become Temple Am Echad, The South Shore Reform Synagogue.
To symbolize the melding of these historic congregations into a vibrant new entity, Temple Am Echad is enhancing the space familiarly known as the Biblical Garden. The centerpiece will be a stained glass steel made from Temple Sinai’s cherished windows.
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Mary Malloy
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9/9/10
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Experience some fun and games – Scottish style – when Old Westbury Gardens opens its glorious grounds to the 47th Annual Scottish Games on Saturday, Aug. 26.
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Karen Bloom
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8/26/10
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It was a joyous occasion on June 5 as the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre celebrated its 60 Anniversary with a memorable Shabbat service that commemorated its rich history and its commitment to Synagogue, the environment, and the community at large.
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Clarissa Hamlin
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6/30/10
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"I met Al Franken at the Book Revue in Huntington when he was doing a book signing a few years ago," said Lynbrook resident Vicki Alspector. She and her husband, Rubin, met Colin Powell in Miami when he was the keynote speaker at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation Dinner.
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Mary Malloy
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6/24/10
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Richard Lawrence of Merrick, a former Nassau County Family Court judge, longtime legal counsel to a state senator, and well-respected, well-loved community activist, died suddenly on April 21 of complications from a bone-marrow transplant. He was 66.
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Scott Brinton
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4/28/10
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“This is what newspapers do best,” the judges of the New York Press Association’s Sharon R. Fulmer Award for Community Leadership said in conferring on the Merrick Herald the …
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3/27/10
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One striking tradition that is widely observed by Jews at their Passover Seders involves the afikomen, a piece of matzah broken off near the beginning of the evening and eaten by participants “for dessert” after the meal.
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Rabbi Andrew Warmflash
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3/24/10
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