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Vol. 25 No. 23
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JUNE 5 - 11, 2025
Mentorship matters in Nassau County This year’s mentorship program culminated in a luncheon on May 23 at the bar associaThe Nassau County Bar tion’s headquarters on 15th Association is committed to Street in Mineola. Participating keeping the future of students schools included W.T. Clarke on Long Island bright, promis- and Woodland middle schools ing and rewarding. in East Meadow; Jericho MidThrough its Student Mentor dle School; and schools in the Program, students from several We s t b u r y, U n i o n d a l e a n d county school disHempstead dist r i c t s h av e t h e tricts. opportunity to Social workers meet bi-weekly on a from each of the one-to-one basis participating with attor neys, schools choose stuwho of fer everydents in the six thing from guidthrough the eighth ance to casual disgrades, who they cussion. The attorfeel would be a good neys cater to the fit for the program. needs of students Following parental in various g rade approval, they are levels and stages in MAxiNE paired with a menboth their school BRoDERiCk tor — an attorney career and adoles- District court judge, in the bar associacence. tion — who visits Nassau County Alan Hodish, of the school bi-weekEast Meadow, an ly to meet with the attorney specializing in person- students. al injury, criminal law and eduMaxine Broderick, a Nassau cation law, created the program County district court judge and 28 years ago. Before he went a mentor for the last eight into law, he taught for 20 years years, addressed attendees at at Jackson Main and Ludlum the luncheon. Broderick, the elementary schools in the vice president of the bar associHempstead School District. ation, who grew up in HempLudlum is now Barack Obama stead, spoke about the imporElementary School. tance of mentorship. After becoming an attorney, “Mentorship is very near he reached out to the bar asso- and dear to my heart,” she said. ciation to see if it would be “It’s the best part of my day. I interested in starting a mentor thank the teachers who faciliprogram, and what began in tate this. I thank all of our Hempstead schools almost attorneys and judges who are three decades ago has expanded mentors, and I thank the pargreatly. Continued on page 11
By JoRDAN VAlloNE
jvallone@liherald.com
Holden Leeds/Herald
Cleaning up the East Meadow bird sanctuary The East Meadow community gathered for a clean up of the bird sanctuary, located behind Speno Park. The sanctuary is maintained by the Council of East Meadow Community Organizations. Marietta Parisi, above, took part in the efforts. Story, more photos, Page 3.
Teaching children to help out Temple B’nai Torah congregants give back on Mitzvah Day By CHARlES SHAW cshaw@liherald.com
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. Mitzvah means a good deed performed as part of one’s religious duty, and throughout the day, temple members engaged in activities aimed at helping those in need. Several stations were set up at the temple to address various issues facing struggling community members, from homelessness to hunger.
According to Rabbi Daniel Bar-Nahum, Mitzvah Day, which took place on May 18, was scheduled at the end of the school year to remind children in the temple to make the world better. The idea, he explained, was to kick off a summer in which children remember values that are most important to them, which include helping those in need. “It’s everything that we want our community to be,” Bar-Nahum said. “It’s coming together, it’s helping to repair the world and it’s meeting people through all generations.” At one station, congregants crafted no-sew fleece blankets for residents of Bethany House, a Continued on page 4
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entorship is very near and dear to my heart. It’s the best part of my day.