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It just doesn’t feel like a New Year, even a Jewish New Year. Not when the beach chairs still sit on the sand and heat waves shimmer over the community. more

Randi Kreiss | 9/10/10

An artist’s rendition of what the garden will look like upon completion.

One people, one place

In July 2009, Temple Sinai of Long Island and Temple Emanu-El of Lynbrook merged to become Temple Am Echad, The South Shore Reform Synagogue. To symbolize the melding of these historic congregations into a vibrant new entity, Temple Am Echad is enhancing the space familiarly known as the Biblical Garden. The centerpiece will be a stained glass steel made from Temple Sinai’s cherished windows. more

Mary Malloy | 9/9/10

Scottish style: The games open with a grand march down Old Westbury Gardens’ North Lawn.

A highland fling with the Scots at Old Westbury Gardens

Experience some fun and games – Scottish style – when Old Westbury Gardens opens its glorious grounds to the 47th Annual Scottish Games on Saturday, Aug. 26. more

Karen Bloom | 8/26/10

Longtime congregants of the Hewlett-east Rockaway Jewish Centre gathered for a photo during the temple’s 60th anniversary celebration. Pictured from left are Allen and Janice Cederbaum, Harriet Lieberman, Sylvia Kaufman, Phyllis Gilbert Nadler and Roslyn and Herbert Fisher.

Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre is 60

It was a joyous occasion on June 5 as the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre celebrated its 60 Anniversary with a memorable Shabbat service that commemorated its rich history and its commitment to Synagogue, the environment, and the community at large. more

Clarissa Hamlin | 6/30/10

Colin Powell, left, with Lynbrook residents Vicki and Rubin Alspector.

Lynbrook resident meets Colin Powell, Al Franken

"I met Al Franken at the Book Revue in Huntington when he was doing a book signing a few years ago," said Lynbrook resident Vicki Alspector. She and her husband, Rubin, met Colin Powell in Miami when he was the keynote speaker at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation Dinner. more

Mary Malloy | 6/24/10

The late Judge Richard Lawrecne in 2006 inside his chambers at the Family Court building in Westbury.

Richard Lawrence, beloved judge, dies at 66

Richard Lawrence of Merrick, a former Nassau County Family Court judge, longtime legal counsel to a state senator, and well-respected, well-loved community activist, died suddenly on April 21 of complications from a bone-marrow transplant. He was 66. more

Scott Brinton | 4/28/10

Some of the staff of the Herald Community Newspapers and the Riverdale Press attended the New York Press Association spring conference in Saratoga Springs this weekend, March 26-28, and took home awards for journalistic, graphic design, photographic and advertising excellence.

Heralds win Community Leadership, 18 other NY Press Association honors

“This is what newspapers do best,” the judges of the New York Press Association’s Sharon R. Fulmer Award for Community Leadership said in conferring on the Merrick Herald the … more

3/27/10

Rabbi Andrew Warmflash of the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre.

The Passover tradition of the afikomen

One striking tradition that is widely observed by Jews at their Passover Seders involves the afikomen, a piece of matzah broken off near the beginning of the evening and eaten by participants “for dessert” after the meal. more

Rabbi Andrew Warmflash | 3/24/10

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