“There’s an expression, L’dor va’dor, and it means ‘From generation to generation,’” said Joan Goldfaden, who has worked at the Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center for nearly 25 years and represents the JCC on the Jewish Community Council of Oceanside.
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By Ben Strack
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4/20/17
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The Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center honored this year’s “Queen Esthers” at a Purim Gala held at Temple Avodah on March 12.
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By Ben Strack
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3/21/17
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After a bomb threat called in to the Mid-Island Jewish Community Center in Plainview on Feb. 27 — the second to centers of its kind in Nassau County this year — police announced heightened patrols around the county’s religious institutions and have launched a full investigation.
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By Ben Strack and Mike Smollins
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3/8/17
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After a bomb threat was called in to the Mid-Island Jewish Community Center in Plainview on Feb. 27 — the second to centers of its kind in Nassau County this year — police announced heightened patrols around the county’s religious institutions and have launched a full investigation.
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By Ben Strack
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3/7/17
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“I can’t do it,” said one of the dance students as she struggled to learn a new routine.
“What is that? ‘I can’t’,” her instructor Tjuana Evans shot back. “There’s no such …
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By Peter Belfiore
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2/23/17
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The Dance Empress Studios dancers returned to the court to perform a halftime show for the Molloy men’s basketball team on Saturday.
Based out of the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in …
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By Peter Belfiore
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2/8/17
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“Okay, one, two, three, dream!” said the photographer as he snapped a shot of the children lined up at the head of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center on Jan. 16.
This was the …
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By Peter Belfiore
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1/18/17
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Nonprofit social-service agencies like the Five Towns Community Center were facing steep funding cuts by Nassau County as late as Monday night.
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By Erik Hawkins and Mary Malloy
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12/7/16
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Ever since St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church moved from Freeport to Hewlett Avenue in Merrick in 1982, parishioners there have dreamed of constructing a community center where they could hold Greek language, culture and religious classes, said the Rev. Nikiforos Fakinos, St. Demetrios’s pastor.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/3/16
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Inside the maintenance garage at the village pool facility, there’s a row of banana trees next to shelves of equipment, hibernating for the winter. There were originally four, but thanks to the expertise and efforts of village employee Eugene Boening, 16 trees will grace the pool’s perimeter this summer.
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By Micah Danney
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3/16/16
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