Birds chirped, and the smell of dirt and garlic filled the warm spring air as about a dozen volunteers worked on a community-service garden at Temple B’nai Torah, in Wantagh, on March 15. They …
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By Maria Cestero
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3/24/22
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Beechwood Homes, a Jericho-based real estate developer, is looking to build a 104-unit, age-restricted condominium complex at the former site of Temple Emanu-El on Merrick Avenue. If the project is …
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By Brian Stieglitz
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8/16/18
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After Rabbi Daniel Bar-Nahum, of Temple Emanu-El, extinguished the East Meadow synagogue’s “eternal flame” last Sunday, there was a pause and a silence that was broken by a …
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By Brian Stieglitz and James Mattone
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6/14/18
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Congregants of Temple Emanu-El and followers of the Jewish faith are encouraged to enact “mitzvahs” or acts of charity and benevolence in order to fix an otherwise broken world.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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5/3/18
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Sitting inside the dome-like synagogue at Temple Emanu-El, you are meant to feel “in the middle” and “included at all times,” Jeff Kraut, a historian and congregant of the East Meadow temple, …
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By Brian Stieglitz and James Mattone
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5/3/18
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In honor of its last show in East Meadow, Temple Emanu-El is performing Fiddler on the Roof— the same show that re-launched its musical theater program in 2003.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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1/18/18
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“People aren’t looking any less for comfort and religious experiences,” said Rabbi Daniel Bar-Nahum, of Temple Emanu-El of East Meadow. “But the way they approach it is …
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By Rebecca Anderson and Stephany Reyes
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1/3/18
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Screen panels lined two walls of a 53-foot double expandable trailer temporarily stationed in Temple Emanu-El’s parking lot. Faces of different races and ethnicities lit up each panel: old and young, employed and unemployed, plump faces and ones with defined cheekbones.
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By Stephany Reyes
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11/15/17
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After 68 years of hosting religious services, Temple Emanu-El of East Meadow will merge its synagogue with Temple B’Nai Torah in Wantagh.
The early stages of the merger have already …
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By Rebecca Anderson and Stephany Reyes
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11/2/17
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The weather brightened last Friday long enough for Temple Emanu-El in East Meadow to hold its annual outdoor tradition: Shabbat Under the Stars, a special evening of prayer. Below, Rabbi Daniel …
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8/29/16
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