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Marking 60 years since MLK’s visit perfect time to commemorate and to remember from which we’ve come, so that we always The Lakeview community is know where we are going,” the gearing up to commemorate the Rev. Tristan Salley, chairman 60th Anniversary of Martin of the NAACP’s special comLuther King Jr.’s historic visit mittee, said. “It’s also a wonderful time to reflect our proud to the community. history because On May 12 of Malver ne, which 1965, King led a was once very march from Rockracially segregated, ville Centre to what has become a model was then the Woodschool for diversity field Road School, and inclusion.” which is now the The commemoraL a kev i ew P u bl i c tion will begin at 2 Library, to support p.m., rain or shine, the desegregation outside the library, of the Malver ne where a brief cereschool district. The mony will be held, Lakeview branch of including the laying t h e N A AC P h a s of a memorial placorganized a march REV. TRISTAN ard to commemoon May 18 to honor SAllEY rate the events of the anniversary of the march 60 years this monumental Chairman, NAACP’s special ago. event. The Pride of “The 60th anni- committee Malverne Marching versary is signifiBand will then lead cant as we continue to remember the legacy of Dr. participants in a march across King, but more importantly, Pinebrook Avenue and down now in this era, this moment as Ocean Avenue, before ending in we’re dealing with the federal the Malverne High School parkgover nment wanting to dis- ing lot. “I’ve asked the men if they mantle the Department of Education and roll back other his- wanted to join us in white toric movements, now is the Continued on page 5
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u.S. Rep. Ritchie torres, who represents the South Bronx, joined the Jewish community of Long island at Congregation Shaaray Shalom, in West Hempstead, for a Holocaust remembrance program on Sunday.
Ritchie Torres part of event remembering the Holocaust By MADISoN GUSlER mgusler@liherald.com
Over 300 members of Long Island’s Jewish community attended a Yam HaShoah program at Congregation Shaaray Shalom, in West Hempstead, on Sunday to honor and remember the lives lost during the Holocaust. The ceremony included a memorial candle lighting, a short film documenting the testimony of survivor Hannah Steiner, and a conversation with U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres. “We all come together for this annual gathering — we do so in solemn memory of the six million Jews who perished in the
Holocaust, and in honor of the survivors, the witnesses and the generations who carry their legacies forward,” Mindy Perlmutter, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council - Long Island, said. “Our responsibility is not to only remember, but to act to ensure that such darkness never takes hold again.” Family members of victims and survivors of the Holocaust lit six memorial candles, and a seventh to remember the five million non-Jewish people who died. Nine members of the Israel Defense Forces who attended the program lit an eighth candle, to honor the lives lost in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Continued on page 4
he 60th anniversary is significant as we continue to remember the legacy of Dr. King.