The things we carry to this Memorial Day, 2022, are freighted with more recent events than past battles. On the last Monday in May, we look back . . .
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5/19/22
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Despite the obstacles that came with the coronavirus pandemic, the Marion & Aaron Gural JCC has continued to serve Five Towns and Far Rockaway residents thanks to its dedicated volunteers.
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By Lisa Margaria
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5/5/22
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As the sun sails northward and we stand in the doorway known as spring, between a stark winter and a hopeful-looking summer, there is a passion to embrace life again . . .
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3/24/22
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Two years after being named the Inwood Civic Association’s 2020 Citizen of the Year, Frank Parise will finally be honored in person by the association at the Inwood Country Club on Saturday.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/17/22
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After more than two years of obsessively parsing the news about the global pandemic ravaging the world, we now have an escalating war in Eastern Europe to distract us.
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3/10/22
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After nearly two full years of the coronavirus pandemic, the mental health crisis among school-age children is at its peak.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/10/22
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From his school years to fatherhood, Hewlett resident Gabriel Boxer has always been doing good, from chessed (the Hebrew word for kindness) projects as a youth in his native Hillcrest, Queens, to feeding essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic, to large giveaways to aid people in need.
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By Jeff Bessen
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12/30/21
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This Thanksgiving is shaping up to be one of the most difficult in a long time for many Long Island families who were adversely affected by the economic calamity brought on by the pandemic.
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By Randi Shubin Dresner
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11/18/21
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Have you noticed that the seams don’t meet the right way and the doorjamb is wobbly? Our house is unstable. The beams of this great edifice called America are slightly off plumb in a number of disturbing ways.
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10/7/21
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I recently took part in a WABC-TV special, “Back to School: Learning During a Pandemic,” hosted by Lauren Glassberg. The participants included . . .
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By Alan Singer
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9/23/21
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