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Friday, December 16, 2022
Vol. 10, No. 50
HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
MAN CHARGED WITH GRAND LARCENY
SANTOS RECEIVED MONEY FROM OLIGARCH’S COUSIN
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Klein, Giordano win races
WINTER BLUES
Both candidates ran unopposed BY ST E V E N K E E H N E R Sanford Klein and Janell Giordano won their commissioner races for the Roslyn and Albertson Water Districts on Tuesday. Both ran unopposed. The districts have a three-member board of commissioners, each of whom serves a three-year term. Their terms are staggered so that a seat becomes available for election each year. Klein has served as a Roslyn commissioner since 2011, after spending over 40 years as a dentist. He said his work involves setting policy, monitoring operations, reviewing budgets and making sure the district complies with regulations. “I’m running to continue the vital work of overseeing the operation of the water district,” he told the Roslyn Times in November. “I’ve lived in this community for many years and love it.” Among the listed improvements sought by the district is a new well to meet increased demand, the purchase of land and construction of facilities for the new well and the reconstruction of existing wells. Giordano is new to the position and she will replace Kenneth Vey. She works as a real estate salesperson for Douglas Elliman Real Estate. The Albertson Water District serves a diverse community and provides water to both residential and commercial sites, with a daily capacity of 7.7 million gallons. About4.5% of their 4,069 connections are commercial in nature. Both winners will serve their threeyear term beginning on Jan. 1, 2023.
PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTH SHORE SCHOOLS
Sea Cliff students took the stage for the annual Winter Concert for their peers.
Homecoming for Hadassah’s leader G.N.’s Smolow became prez of largest American Jewish women’s group in 2020 BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z As a young teacher in Great Neck more than 40 years ago, Rhoda Smolow said she never thought of being a leader in the Jewish community while her grandmother envisioned it differently. Smolow, who moved to the peninsula in 1978, was a reading teacher in Glen Head involved in the Great
Neck community. She recalls her grandmother being a member of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, which brings women together to promote change in a variety of prominent issues facing the global Jewish community. Following a chapter event in New York City, which her grandmother’s group attended, Smolow, a fifth-generation Hadassah member,
fell victim to something millions can relate to — being embarrassed by a grandparent. “My grandmother turned to all of her friends and said, ‘My granddaughter will be the national president of Hadassah’,” Smolow told Blank Slate Media. “To this day, I think she had a foreshadowing or something that saw what I didn’t see. And I hope she’s still watching.”
More than 40 years after her grandmother’s prediction, Smolow became the 27th president of what is now the nation’s largest Jewish women’s organization in America in early 2020. While being president was not an aspiration when she was first starting out in one of Hadassah’s Great Neck groups, Smolow said her continuous involvement and passion Continued on Page 51
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