At Temple B’nai Torah, congregants of all ages came together last week to take part in Mitzvah Day, a day of caring and service. The congregation serves the Bellmore, Merrick, East Meadow, Wantagh and Seaford communities.
When Cynthia Seibold founded Balloon Mission, a nonprofit organization dedicated to balloon waste and environmental education in January 2023, she never could’ve imagined how much the organization would grow in just over two-and-a-half years.
There was no better weekend for Nassau County to celebrate Fleet Week 2025 than Memorial Day weekend. In Eisenhower Park’s Field 2 on May 24, a combined team from the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard brought helicopters to the park.
Students at Martin Avenue Elementary School in the North Bellmore School District gathered inside the school’s gymnasium for the annual Memorial Day ceremony.
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July Fourth is a holiday that truly deserves to be celebrated by all Americans. The bottom line is that July 4, 1776 began the daring experiment that led to the formation of the greatest nation in the history of the world, which has produced more opportunity and more freedoms for more types of people than ever thought imaginable.
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I just returned from Pope Francis’s funeral. It was a great honor to be a member of the small official U.S. delegation. As his simple wooden coffin, marked by a plain cross, emerged into the Rome sunlight, a ripple of applause rose from the crowd — a spontaneous act of gratitude for a man who lived a life of service, humility and love.
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In New York, across the country and around the world, people are experiencing a loneliness epidemic that humankind has never seen before.
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With social media fanning the fires of coffee rituals and preferences, you can’t just grab a cup of joe anymore.