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Friday, May 10, 2019
Vol. 94, No. 19
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Yom HaShoah weighs more heavily on G.N.
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Rising anti-Semitism, shootings add more relevance to Holocaust Remembrance Day BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Great Neck residents honored Holocaust survivors and commemorated victims in various ceremonies for Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, last week, from survivors speaking to temples to the Nassau County Legislature’s solemn observance. This year’s remembrances may have carried extra weight however, some residents said, as they come in an era where anti-Semitism appears to be on the rise and almost normalized. Steve Markowitz, a Great Neck resident and chairman of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, said Yom HaShoah is normally a “very somber time.” But it’s particularly somber this year, he said, because people were honoring both the six million victims of the Holocaust and people who were killed in recent months “because they were
Jewish.” “I think I could say without any reservation, and not happily, that right now we are in the most dangerous time for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” Markowitz said on Tuesday. In 2017 at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, marchers chanted racist and antiSemitic slogans. Within a year, the Jewish community has also faced two shootings in houses of worship in the United States. One woman was killed and three other people injured in a shooting at a Chabad synagogue in Poway, California, in April six months after the Tree of Life Synagogue mass shooting in Pittsburgh, where 11 people were killed in the deadliest attack on American Jews in U.S. history. “No Jew, no person of any faith, should have to live in fear of being in their house of worship,” Continued on Page 71
PHOTO BY JANELLE CLAUSEN
Andrea Dennett, a co-chair of Kensington’s Architectural Review Board, holds up a photo of the home on 41 Beverly Rd. to developers seeking to build two houses on the property. She said last week one of the homes should be closer in style to the current one.
VGN, school district aim for sale of Village Hall BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Great Neck Village Hall could be sold to the Great Neck school district within two years, the school board presi-
dent and village mayor said Tuesday, putting a timeline on an idea that has been floated for years. Mayor Pedram Bral announced the agreement at a Tuesday night Board of Trust-
ees meeting, saying the village plans to work with the district to sell Village Hall within two years to alleviate stress on E.M. Baker Elementary School, which is right behind Continued on Page 71
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