George Santos faces growing scrutiny over where he has worked, where he went to school, and where his seemingly sudden wealth has come from. But now the U.S. Representative-elect is being questioned about something much different: Is he a descendant of Holocaust survivors?
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By Michael Hinman
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12/22/22
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Elliot Spanierman, a resident of Back Lawrence for nearly 40 years, who retired to Bal Harbour, Florida, died on Aug. 15. He was 87.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/3/21
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Carol Dysinger, a New York University filmmaker who won an Oscar for Best Short Documentary at this year’s Academy Awards for co-directing with Elena Andreicheva “Learning to Skateboard in a War Zone, (If You’re a Girl)” is the guest speaker at...
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/12/20
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Meryl Fay Natow, a native of Hewlett Neck, and Samuel Ross Breidbart were married on June 9 at the Brooklyn Museum in a ceremony officiated by Rabbi James Ponet.
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6/28/18
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Introduced through mutual friends in 2014, Dr. Danielle Rachel Heller and Judd Abram Lindenfeld were married at Pier 60 in Manhattan on Sept. 10. Rabbi Max Lindenfeld, a brother of the groom, officiated the wedding.
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10/6/17
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Lawrence High School senior Erika Kirchner was one of this year’s recipients of the 31st Annual Rock and Wrap It Up! Sid Tanenbaum Awards.
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6/16/17
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The son of parents who founded a yeshiva, Daniel J. Schrag was, along with others, a founder of the Hillel School in Lawrence, and was one of six family members who graduated from New York University.
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By Jeff Bessen
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1/6/17
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Louis Frontario will succeed the retiring Dr. Peter Weber as assistant superintendent for business in the Hewlett-Woodmere School District as of July 1, the beginning of the new school year.
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/1/16
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Sid Tanenbaum, who lived in Woodmere and owned a metal-stamping shop in Far Rockaway, where he was known more for his charitable ways than his two-handed set shot, has been honored for the past 30 years with a basketball tournament that raises scholarship money for students in the Five Towns.
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/1/16
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A rise in anti-Semitism on college campuses, fueled by a hatred of Israel and its policies toward Palestinians, has propelled groups such as the National Council of Jewish Women to offer college-bound students the facts they need to respond to what is perceived as misinformation about the Jewish state.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/6/16
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