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How should schools teach the Holocaust? Voices for Truth and Humanity aims to make it required for H.S. graduation
about increasing incidents of hate speech and other crimes against Jews. In 2019, Britvan, a real estate broker, founded New York is one of 23 states in which schools Voices for Truth and Humanity, a nonprofit that promotes education in public are required to teach students schools about World War II, the about the Holocaust. Jack BritHolocaust and other genocides. van, president of Voices for Last year, Gov. Kathy Hochul Truth and Humanity, says the signed a law requiring survey subject should be a requirement instruction on the Holocaust in for graduating from high school. the state’s public school disBritvan, who grew up Mill tricts. Superintendents were Basin, Brooklyn, spent his sumrequired to attest that their dismers working behind the countricts were including the subject ter at his famiy-owned Woodro JACK BRiTVAN in their classroom instruction. Kosher Delicatessen and Restau- Voices for Truth and Humanity rant on Broadway in Hewlett. He According to the state Education knows the Five Towns pretty well, he said, and Department website, 99 percent of school dishe knows the concerns many residents have ConTinued on Page 12
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Juggler Michael Karas wowed the crowd at the Five Towns of Chabad’s Simchas Bais Hashoeva in Cedarhurst Park on Monday. Story, more photos, Page 10.
he vast majority of the schools are not teaching appropriately about the Holocaust.
How Cedarhurst combated a rat problem
Village officials attribute sightings to unsealed restaurant trash By PARKER SCHUG & HERNESTO GALDAMEZ of the Nassau Herald
What was described as a rat infestation in Cedarhurst last year has become a less visible problem in recent months, thanks to the cooperation of business owners, specifically restaurant owners. “Last year there was a whole infestation,” Miriam Sacks, the manager at Lolli Bop Café, on Central Avenue, said. “This summer was good. This year there’s a big difference. Compared to last year, there’s a huge difference.”
The difference can be credited to an approach Mayor Benjamin Weinstock and village trustees adopted based on discussions with restaurant owners on how best to put their trash out for pickup, after rats were seen near some of the restaurants where trash had not been adequately sealed before it was collected, Weinstock said. “Not all of them, but some have not been very good at putting their garbage in sealed containers with closed lids,” the mayor said. “They tend to have all the garbage corralled and throw the garbage in plastic bags and leave them on the
ground. That attracts all kinds of bugs, spiders, rats, mice.” According to a law that dates back to the 1980s, Weinstock explained, businesses that do not seal trash properly are given a warning, and after that, violators can be ticketed up to $250. “We’ve been enforcing it for a couple of years heavily,” he said. “We want to cut down on the infestation of any rodents, and try to keep that in check as best we can.” Along with disgust factor of rat sightings, the rodents pose a genuine hazard to humans. They can spread disease, creat-
i n g a p u bl i c h e a l t h r i s k . Rodent-borne diseases can be passed directly to people by bite wounds, or through the consumption of food or water or by breathing dust that has been contaminated by rat droppings. Rats are also infamous for chewing through wiring, furniture and walls. More often than not, the damage is done before
the culprits are found. There is no specific area where sightings have been concentrated, Weinstock said, but rats have been spotted where there are a “cluster” of restaurants in the village. “Some of them have been really careful in what they do,” he said of the ConTinued on Page 18