The Festival of Chanukah is a very joyous one. It is also called the Festival of the Lights because it is our tradition to kindle lights during the eight days of Chanukah.
On the first night we …
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Rabbi Meir Dvir
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11/24/10
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Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Malverne hosted the 35th Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Worship Service on Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. with religious leaders from all the houses of worship in …
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11/24/10
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Once again the “Yad Squad” helped students of Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre’s religious school to make their yads, or Torah pointers, during the annual Yad program on Nov. 7.
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11/18/10
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The Jewish Community Center of West Hempstead held a book fair where hundreds upon hundreds of books of every genre and style were up for sale. People also rummaged through Vintage records, tapes, …
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11/17/10
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Around town Supermarket Bingo NiteThe Ladies Auxiliary of the West Hempstead Fire Department is hosting a Supermarket Bingo Nite on Friday, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m. at the West …
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11/3/10
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The Zuckerman family, founders of the celebrated Marvin & Sons jewelry shop in Cedarhurst and Zuckerman’s Jewelry in Merrick, recently celebrated the wedding of Marvin Zuckerman’s first granddaughter, Michele, to Scott Matalon.
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10/14/10
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The Holy High Days of Judaism may be coming to a close, but there is still one more celebration to be had this year. Many houses around Bellmore and Merrick could be seen with small huts, called sukkahs, in their backyards to mark the Jewish holiday of Sukkot this past week.
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David Weingrad
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9/29/10
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It is described as a once-in-a-lifetime experience — the chance to write a Torah, Judaism’s founding ethical and legal text, found in the five Books of Moses. That was what the Congregation Ohr Zarua of the Bellmore Jewish Center did to mark its 50th anniversary.
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Deirdre Krasula
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9/28/10
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“So long as this memorial stands, so long as the village of East Rockaway endures, we will always remember the loss and feel the pain of the loved ones that you lost, and that we lost, on that horrific day.”
Those were the words of the Rev. Mark Lukens of the Bethany Congregational Church in East Rockaway as he opened the 9/11 memorial services last Saturday in Memorial Park.
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Mary Malloy and Clarissa Hamlin
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9/15/10
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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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