Just as many have asked, “Where were America’ s Jews in the 1930s and during the Shoah ?, ” our grand-children will ask, “Where were you after Oct. 7?”
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By Ed Weintrob
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5/15/24
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As is customary at Yom HaShoah commemorarions, six candles were lit in the Five Towns on Sunday night, one for each million of the six million Jews who were slain by the Nazis. Four of the candles …
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By Ed Weintrob
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5/8/24
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Riverdale remembered the Holocaust the way Jews commemorate so much: through ritual.
The device created for this by Rabbi Avi Weiss at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale was a Yom HaShoah Seder.
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By Ed Weintrob
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5/8/24
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The Great Israeli Real Estate event drew a different crowd than its normal clientele during a stop in Cedarhurst. Nassau police and protesters gathered down the road from Young Israel of …
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By Parker Schug, LI Herald
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3/13/24
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An IDF officer who served in Gaza told a Rockville Centre synagogue that “personally, if there can be a solution that will include any sort of agreement or ceasefire, I don’t believe in …
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By Daniel Offner, LI Herald
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2/14/24
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Rabbi Shalom Axelrod of the Young Israel of Woodmere (back row, center, in dark suit) visited with more than 90 YIW members for a Lunch and Learn get together at Traditions South of Boca Raton, in …
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1/17/24
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Former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin restated a Zionist axiom on Monday night, telling an enthusiastic crowd in Riverdale that “Israel is not compensation for the Holocuast — Israel is …
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By Ed Weintrob
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1/10/24
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Atlantic Beach village has agreed to pay Chabad of the Beaches $400,000 over four years to settle a 2022 federal lawsuit.
Long Beach-based Chabad of the Beaches bought the former CapitalOne …
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12/6/23
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Or Gat was celebrating the engagement of friends while his family was sleeping in the early morning of Oct. 7 in the Be’eri Kibbutz in Israel near the Gaza border.
The first reports he …
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By Gary Larkin, Editor, The Riverdale Press
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11/1/23
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Boxes of letters covered a conference room table in the White House last Wednesday as 40 children from the Young Israel of Woodmere — the largest Young Island congregation in the United States …
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10/25/23
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