A key to surviving an active shooter event is “situational awareness,” a security consultant told about 150 Five Towners on Sunday morning.
The speaker, retired NYPD Detective Chris …
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By Ed Weintrob
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1/12/16
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The Five Towns will consider something of a worse-case scenario on Sunday, when a Cedarhurst shul hosts a community meeting on “surviving an active shooter event.”
The forum, open to …
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By The Jewish Star
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1/10/16
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For those of us who love football there is Draft Day, Kickoff Weekend to Super Bowl Sunday, and, unfortunately, Black Monday, the day after the regular season ends, when a dozen teams prepare for the …
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By Judy Joszef
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1/7/16
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In the children’s section of Macy’s lived a purple sweatshirt named Sweta. While her friends got picked one by one, she stayed on the shelf for a long time, folded and unable to …
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Pick Purple / Batya Girls
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1/7/16
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Long Beach Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky was seleted by Nassau County Democrats on Tuesday night as the party’s choice to succeed convicted state Senator Dean Skelos.
Gov. Cuomo is expected to …
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1/6/16
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Long Island’s first baby of 2016 is a Jewish boy who was born at the precise moment that his hospital’s network ended its identificaiton with both Jewish and Long Island.
Daniella and …
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By The Jewish Star
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1/5/16
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Last week, the Rosh Yeshiva of Netiv Aryeh in Jerusalem, Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl, shelita, published an inspiring essay titled, “The Servitude in Egypt as a Result of Lashon Hara,” Which …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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1/5/16
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With most people getting a day off work for secular New Year’s day on Friday, Far Rockaway’s White Shul is silver-plating an opportunity to put some of that time to good use.
A Yom …
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12/30/15
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There’s a gentleman’s agreement in politics that kids are off-limits. As vicious as the political discourse can sometimes get and as hard as politicians and would-be politicians go after …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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12/30/15
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After Moshe and Aharon are reunited and they convince the nation of Israel that they were sent by G-d to redeem them, they declare before Pharoah, “Send My nation to celebrate for me in the …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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12/30/15
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