The hallways at Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School were darkened on the morning of April 28. The only light emanated from yahrzeit candles held by students as they stood outside classrooms. At 9:20 a.m., a siren sounded — as sirens had sounded earlier that day in Israel.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/5/22
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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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More than 50 volunteers filled over 375 alphabetized food orders and placed them in a makeshift staging area in the parking of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls campus in Hewlett Bay Park last Sunday.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/14/22
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Inwood resident Pat Jones was 13 the first time she walked into what was called “the mansion” behind the soccer field on the Five Towns Community Center campus in Lawrence.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/10/22
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rom a Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School senior who wants to major in engineering in college to a HAFTR Middle School seventh-grader who built his own computer, the robotics program at both levels attracts students who are curious and motivated.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/10/22
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A Cedarhurst family has joined forces with their community to form Team Jacob, in support of Jacob Hersko, a sixth-grader at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway Middle School who has short bowel syndrome, a severe digestive disorder. Team members plan to raise money by running in the Miami Marathon on Feb. 6.
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By Lisa Margaria
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1/27/22
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Community Chest South Shore, formerly known as Five Towns Community Chest, is a 90-year-old local organization that gives high school-age teens opportunities to volunteer, become involved in the local community and expand their social network through its Youth Board.
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By Lisa Margaria
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1/20/22
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Even before the sale of the Woodmere Club was consummated in early 2017, the battle over what it would become began in late 2016, with the formation of a grass-roots organization, the Five Towns Civic Association.
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By Jeff Bessen
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1/14/22
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All seven villages in the Five Towns area are among the roughly 400 New York municipalities that opted out of allowing licenses for either marijuana consumption lounges or retail dispensaries within their jurisdictions by the mandated state deadline of Dec. 31.
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By Jeff Bessen and Lisa Margaria
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1/6/22
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Volunteers in the Five Towns have teamed up with organizations such as Gammy’s Pantry, a food pantry in the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence, Rock and Wrap It Up! Of Cedarhurst, Island Harvest and the Manna Project of Long Island to help those in need this Thanksgiving, after the coronavirus pandemic heightened food insecurity in the area in 2020.
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By Lisa Margaria
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11/24/21
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