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Cove Animal Rescue needs financial help once veterinary practices are acquired by corporations, they can no longer control their Cove Animal Rescue, in Glen pricing, resulting in skyrocketCove, is sounding the alarm ing bills for nonprofit shelters over its financial future as it like Cove. “Even our last holdcontends with soaring veteri- out, who were the best to us, is nary costs, an increase in sur- Station Plaza Vets in Glen Head,” she said. renders and a “They were always decade-old city stiso kind to us, but as pend that hasn’t time has gone by, budged despite more and more are mounting expenses. going under these The no-kill shelauspices of these ter, which currently corporations.” houses more than The result? “Our 60 cats and seven moneys outlaid for dogs, is widely recmedicine are giganognized for its comtic,” Connolly said. passionate care and JANINE FAKIRIS “And because of the strong community kind of shelter we ties. But according Board president, are, we have elderly t o i t s m a n a g e r , Cove Animal Rescue animals, and so it’s Diane Connolly, costing us a lot of Cove is being squeezed from all money, which is really hitting sides. “So one of our biggest chal- us badly.” Making matters worse, lenges has come to fruition, slowly but surely, and now real- Cove’s funding from the City of ly has hit home,” Connolly G l e n C o v e h a s r e m a i n e d said. “Most of the vets in the unchanged for nearly a decade area have been kind to us. Now — even though state-mandated just about all of them are join- building upgrades and animal ing the conglomerates like the care costs have risen steadily. VCAs” — Veterinary Centers The shelter receives a monthly of America. “They’re having a stipend of $7,741 from the city, which is now less than half of corporate takeover.” Connolly explained that CONTINUED ON PAGE 17
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Sunshine, patriotism and a bike parade A sea of red, white and blue swept through downtown Glen Cove during the city’s annual July Fourth festivities. Story, Page 3.
A professor turned president: Blitz takes helm at Tiferith Israel By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
When Michael Blitz was 12, he pulled out the Yellow Pages, searched for “Jewish-sounding names” and began cold-calling strangers. He was determined to find someone who would teach him Hebrew. “I actually chose to get bar mitzvahed on my own,” Blitz, who’s now 67, recalled. “Some of my friends had been bar mitzvahed. I was impressed by the service part of it, the religious part of it.” He found Frieda Katz, a tutor in Brooklyn, and showed up in her kitchen with $35 in savings from his job picking berries at a farm stand.
“I said, ‘How many lessons will this buy me?’” he recounted. “She looked at the money and she looked at me, and she said, ‘All of them.’” Though he didn’t grow up in a religious household, Blitz’s Jewish identity has been a continuous thread in his life, strengthened by personal study and reflection. His mother had little knowledge of Judaism, and his father was an avowed atheist. Still, Blitz took it upon himself to explore Jewish texts, language and history, first as a boy, then later as an adult. That self-directed learning, he explained, became a form of healing. “For some reason, getting prepared for bar mitzvah felt like it was CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
ven the vet care to fix one spay now is up to almost $80.