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Volunteers at the Barry and Florence Freidberg Jewish Community Center in Oceanside prepared and delivered 200 traditional Passover meals on March 25. Recipients in the surrounding communities received two “Seder in a Box” dinners and a socially-distant visit.
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By Tom Carrozza
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4/1/21
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In normal years, Purim is celebrated with large family gatherings at which relatives exchange Purim baskets, wear costumes and share a meal. Purim, or the Festival of Lots, commemorates the survival of the Jews who, in the fifth century, were marked for death by their Persian rulers.
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By Tom Carrozza
tcarrozza@liherald.com
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3/4/21
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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
The Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center, in Ocean-side, put actions to the words of the man they were celebrating last week when they conducted their MLK Day of Service to bring people in the community together at a time when it’s difficult to impossible to gather as one.
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By Tom Carrozza
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1/28/21
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A new camp introduced by the Friedberg Jewish Community Center in Oceanside recently completed its third summer program and has grown into a year-round platform for LGBTQ children ages 6 through …
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By Alyssa Seidman and Tony Bellissimo
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1/12/21
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Over the weekend exercising civil duty was not the easiest task for many voters who waited on long lines in the cold fall air. On Sunday, the line for voting at Gayle Community Center stretched down Lincoln Street, wrapping around Locust Avenue.
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By Jennifer Corr and Alyssa Seidman
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10/29/20
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When members and guests eventually return to the Friedberg JCC in Oceanside, the facility will look different than before it closed several months ago.
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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6/29/20
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While its doors are physically shut for now, the JCC staff is still working to provide the community with virtual programs to keep active and connected.
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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5/26/20
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Even into his late 70s, Elbert Wilder, a longtime custodian at the Friedberg Jewish Community Center school in Lynbrook, would stand near its entrance, flail his arms and legs and dance to entertain children as they arrived.
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By Mike Smollins
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5/13/20
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Things are getting quiet in Rockville Centre, at least in public. Schools are closed, meetings are postponed and most activities have come to a halt for at least the next couple of weeks. Though no cases of coronavirus have been reported in Rockville Centre, the village officials decided, “out of an abundance of caution” to close Village Hall, the Sandel Senior Center, John A. Anderson Recreation Center and Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center for two weeks, starting Monday, March 16 and reopening on March 30.
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By Jill Nossa
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3/13/20
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More than a hundred people turned out for the second meeting of the Baldwin Downtown Revitalization Initiative at Baldwin High School on Nov. 20, when state representatives and consultants heard …
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By Bridget Downes
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11/29/19
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