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Can a new bill make it safer to worship? their path or approaching within 8 feet with the intent to harass. Suozzi said the measure Calls to protect religious institutions from harassment “ensures that people can access and intimidation took center their place of worship safely stage last Friday morning at and without obstruction, while the Holocaust Memorial and still preserving First AmendTolerance Center of Nassau ment protections for peaceful County. expression.” He added that it There, U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi draws “a clear line: intimidaunveiled the bipartion and threats tisan Safeguarding have no place in Access to Congregaour communities.” tions and Religious “The safety of Establishments cong re g ants and f ro m D i s r u p t i o n the freedom to worAct, known as the ship is integral to a SACRED Act, legishealthy democralation Suozzi said cy,” Rabbi Irwin would address Huberman, of Congrowing concer ns ToM SUozzI gregation Tifereth among his constitu- U.S. Representative Israel, wrote in a ents about safety at New York’s 3rd statement to the houses of worship. Congressional District Herald. “This bill “There’s too is an important much hate in our step towards assurcountry right now,” ing religious freeSuozzi said. “A lot of people are dom in our country.” being intimidated as they enter “We at the Holocaust Memointo their religious institution rial and Tolerance Center to practice their faith.” understand religious persecuThe bill, co-led by Rep. Max tion,” Alan Mindel, the center’s Miller, a Republican from Ohio, chairman, said, “and so we are would make it a federal crime so proud to stand with Conto intentionally intimidate, gressman Suozzi in protecting obstruct or harass individuals the rights of all Americans, within 100 feet of a place of regardless of where they pray worship, including blocking
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Students learn about local bird species Glenwood Landing School students got the chance to learn more about their avian neighbors during a program with the Centre Island Bird Sanctuary. Story, more photos, Page 10.
New film festival coming to Sea Cliff
Arts council adding new movie-related programming By JUlIA CAPITEllI jcapitelli@liherald.com
The Sea Cliff Arts Council is holding its first ever film festival over the course of a weekend in June. Including both narrative and documentary style films, the event will take place in multiple locations in the village. Filmmakers can submit work for consideration through May 15. Mark Sobel and Katie Taber, the event’s codirectors, emphasized that this year’s festival on June 13 and 14 will be small to ensure smooth operations and gauge community interest. The festival comes as the arts council begins to add film-related activities to its programming.
Taber, a local filmmaker, and her husband, Mike, a television and film sound director, set up the arts council space at 86 Roslyn Ave. with a 4K projector to make it suitable for film showings. “Stranger Sister,” Taber’s own project was shown at the arts council building in September. The event was accompanied by a Q & A session with Taber. “It just worked out amazing,” Sobel, the arts council’s producer-at-large, said. “We said, ‘No, we got to go from here. We got to do (the festival) now.’ We might have rushed it, but we didn’t want to wait.” The team organizing the event took a trip to Continued on page 9
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