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Remembering the victims of Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas. Mindel criticized narratives equating Israel’s military Two years after Hamas-led response with genocide, arguing militants launched a deadly that the civilian-to-combatant assault on Israel, killing 1,200 casualty ratio in Gaza was “one people and abducting about 250 to one,” and not a higher ratio more, hundreds gathered Sun- typical in urban warfare. He day at the Holocaust Memorial also pointed to humanitarian and Tolerance Center of Nas- aid efforts in Gaza, and rejected sau County, in Glen claims of wideCove, to remember spread starvation. the victims, support “We will never the hostages’ famibe the people we are lies and confront always accused to the resurgence of be,” he said. “We antisemitism worldwill honor those we wide. have lost, and we BALI LERNER The ceremony, Executive director, will never let it haphosted with the Sid pen again.” Holocaust Memorial Jacobson JCC, of For 94-year-old and Tolerance Center East Hills , drew Holocaust survivor about 200 people to Rosalie Simon, the the museum’s auditorium, and anniversary highlighted the featured remarks from survi- ongoing relevance of Israel as a vors of the Oct. 7 attacks, eye- refuge for Jews. She told the witnesses, public officials and crowd that antisemitism “still community leaders. exists, not only in the pages of HMTC board Chair Alan history, but currently in all Mindel opened the event by parts of the world,” and said invoking a painful reality: the that if Israel had existed durpromise of “never again” — a ing the 1930s and ’40s, countless phrase born from the Holo- lives would have been saved. caust — was broken on Oct. 7. The personal impact of the “More Jews were murdered in attacks was brought into sharp a single day than at any time focus by 18-year-old Aviv Lapid, since the Shoah,” Mindel said, who lived in Sderot, a city less describing the killings, kidnap- than a mile from Gaza. Lapid pings and atrocities carried out CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
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Fall fun at St. Patrick Church Dino Graziosi and Stevens J. Martinez served up some cold ones at the St. Patrick Church Oktoberfest last Saturday. Story, more photos, Page 10.
Critics question narrative of city finances over ‘surplus’ claim By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
Glen Cove’s independent auditor delivered a “clean” opinion on the city’s 2024 financial statements this week, as officials touted a hard-won turnaround in the general fund, while critics cautioned that long-term obligations and borrowing still cast a long shadow. The 117-page report, by PKF O’Connor Davies — presented in a 10-minute briefing at Tuesday’s pre-council meeting — shows that the city ended 2024 with a modest unassigned surplus in its main operating fund even as its governmentwide net position remained deeply negative,
largely due to retiree benefit liabilities. “We are satisfied the results of the scope of our audit were sufficient to enable us to express our opinion on these financial statements, Lawrence Feldman, O’Connor Davies’ audit director, said. “And we’ve issued what we call a clean opinion. This is the best opinion that we can issue.” Feldman walked officials through general fund results, noting that the total fund balance rose from $3.9 million to $4.7 million, and that the city’s unassigned balance swung from a $362,000 deficit in 2023 to an $87,556 surplus in 2024. “There was an increase in the unassigned balance of $449,000, and that is a very positive CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
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