Armed forces service people honored
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orld War II veteran John Santora served as this year’s grand marshal for the Inwood Memorial Parade that marched from the Long Island Rail Road station down Doughty Boulevard to the PFC. John Oliveri Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1582, where there was a memorial service.
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5/27/15
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Parade, services remember those who served
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Remembering the military servicemen and women who lost their lives in combat to protect this nation is what Memorial Day is about, and the annual Lawrence-Cedarhurst march from the firehouse at Central and Washington avenues to Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park completed that mission.
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5/27/15
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It’s rare to see a soldier close up. I saw a young man dressed in his military uniform going up the escalator in Kohl’s in Valley Stream earlier this month.
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By Phyllis Weinberger
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5/20/15
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Three parades are scheduled to take place during Memorial Day weekend in the Five Towns to honor all the men and women killed during their service time in the U.S. armed forces. Memorial Day, for many people, also marks the traditional beginning of the summer season.
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By Vanessa Parker
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5/19/15
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Exhibits and more...
Enduring ImagesAn exhibition, drawn from Hofstra University Museum’s permanent collections, that focuses on the lasting record created by an artist’s visual …
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5/14/15
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Begun in a building on Wahl Street that was built as a guys hang out, it was initially a place for women who attended trade school to drop off their children so they could work in place of men serving in the military during World War II, the Five Towns Early Learning Center in Inwood was started by a group of philanthropic Jewish women led by Gertrude Rieur.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/13/15
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Calling it one of the most important events in Jewish history, Rabbi Steven Graber, the spiritual leader of Temple Hillel in North Woodmere, listed two other reasons why the Holocaust should be remembered.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/16/15
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Remembering the veterans who served
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Lawrence-Cedarhurst American Legion Post 339 held its inaugural Veterans Day celebration at Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park on Tuesday.
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11/12/14
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Though better known as the holiday when Jewish people fast to atone for their sins, Yom Kippur does not hold a candle for melancholy to Tisha B’Av, which is considered the saddest day in the Jewish calendar.
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By Jeff Bessen and Yitzchak Carroll
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7/30/14
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It was back during a time just before Pearl Harbor and the Second World War when Carol Berman was leaving Brooklyn to attend the University of Michigan. Across the city in Manhattan, Jerry Berman was also getting ready to attend the same school.
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By Vanessa Parker
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6/11/14
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