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Atlantic Beach BZA approves Chabad zoning which sign-off occurred on July 30, the Board of Zoning Appeals is required to grant Chabad cerAlmost a year after the Atlan- tain variances.” The measures include a spetic Beach Board of Zoning Appeals denied its earlier cial permit for religious use, a requests, the Chabad of the special exception for a sign on Beaches had new zoning varianc- Park Street, and variances for es for its property on Park Street accessory parking — with 11 spaces required and u n a n i m o u s l y seven provided — as approved by the board well as for parking in at its Aug. 20 meeting. the front yard setThe variances are back; for an oversized part of a settlement drive-through canopy agreement between and a front-yard the village and the encroachment canopy Chabad, under which on Albany Boulevard; the village will for an open porch approve the variances encroaching into a for the Chabad’s reliside yard; and for an gious community cenoversized accessory ter and drive-through structure. café and make a The Chabad was $950,000 payment to also granted a special the organization. use permit for an “Chabad, the board RABBI ELI accessory driveof trustees and the GOOdMAN through café, with zoning board entered Chabad of the restrictions on hours into a settlement Beaches of operation. It may agreement,” Brian operate no earlier Stolar, the attorney for the BZA, said. “As part of the than 5 a.m. and no later than 11 resolution, the Board of Zoning p.m. On days when Lawrence disAppeals consented to the settle- trict schools are in session, it ment agreement on the condition may not operate from 3 to 6 p.m. “This marks the beginning of that there be no admission of liability. As a required next step, a happy new chapter in the within 30 days of the court sign- Chabad-Atlantic Beach relationing off on the consent decree, COnTInuED On PAGE 13
By BRIAN NORMAN
bnorman@liherald.com
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Courtesy Sheera Greenberg
Ilana Goldberg, of Valley Stream, center, broke the Guinness World Record for Most Decimal Places of Pi Recited in One Minute on Aug. 3, firing off 426 digits. With her were, from left, the independent witnesses, Ari-Ben Kirschbaum and Eliza Miranda, both of Hewlett; HAFTR math teacher and chair Tamara Farber; and Winslow Mentor, also of Hewlett.
How many digits of pi do you know? She rattled off 426 — in 60 seconds.
By MELISSA BERMAN
mberman@liherald.com
Ilana Greenberg, 17, broke the Guinness World Record for Most Decimal Places of Pi Recited in One Minute on Aug. 3, rapidly repeating from memory 426 digits, in the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library’s courtyard. Greenberg, of Valley Stream, recently graduated from North Shore Hebrew Academy High School, in Great Neck. She was the class of 2025’s valedictorian, and is now beginning her freshman year at Yale. “I’ve always loved math and the STEM subjects” — science, technology and engineering as well as math — and particularly during the pandemic, I got a renewed inter-
est in it,” Greenberg said. “I had a lot of extra time on my hands, so I decided, as a personal challenge, to start memorizing the digits of pi” — the mathematical ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Under strict guidelines from Guinness, Greenberg’s feat was required to be monitored by four independent witnesses whom she had never met. They included Tamara Farber, of West Hempstead, and Hewlett residents Ari-Ben Kirschbaum, Winslow Mentor and Eliza Miranda. “I was very, very thankful and appreciative that we found four total strangers who were willing to come out and help us do this,” Greenberg said. “It was very nice to meet them, too, and have this event.” COnTInuED On PAGE 15
his marks the beginning of a happy new chapter in the ChabadAtlantic Beach relationship.