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Friday, September 8, 2017
Vol. 5, No. 36
MINEOLA STREET FAIR
FLOWER HILL PREPS CURRAN, MARAGOS VIE FOR HOLIDAYS FOR DEM NOMINATION
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Rosenthal named new JCC president
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LAST DROPS OF SUN
Co-chair of cultural arts committee takes the reins at East Hills center BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I The new president of Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center is no stranger to the position. When President Jodi Rosenthal met her husband, Robert, he was leaving the position after cutting the ribbon on the center’s Forest Drive location in East Hills in 1988. “When we started dating, I was getting familiar with his philanthropic endeavors, JCC being one of them,” Rosenthal said. “When we got married and I moved from the city back here to Old Brookville, he went on to other philanthropic endeavors and I was so moved by all the different programs and services the JCC was offering to the community that I decided to get involved at that time.” Rosenthal said she grew up in Roslyn before attending the University of Pennsylvania School of
Business, but not long after getting her degree, she fell into the world of philanthropic work and joined the community center’s board of directors more than 20 years ago. During her decades of work at Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center, Rosenthal is most proud of her ability to create and grow the cultural arts program as co-chair from a small committee hosting a handful of events to booking bestselling authors for sold-out events. “I have sat on lots of committees from governance to operational to task forces that examine the role of the JCC to everything, but the cultural arts program is my personal baby,” Rosenthal said. “It’s been nurtured for close to 20 years, and it started with a few little programs here and there and has grown into a full committee of dedicated volunteers and professionals who try to bring the best in cultural arts to our JCC. I think we’ve been doing it right beContinued on Page 81
PHOTO BY AMELIA CAMURATI
Children celebrated the last unofficial day of summer Monday at the Park at East Hills during the village’s first poolside music festival.
N. Hempstead to host 9/11 memorial in Manhasset the annual memorial service in Manhasset on Monday. The ceremony will take The 56 residents of the place at 8 a.m. at Mary Jane Town of North Hempstead who Davies Green on Plandome lost their lives in the 9/11 ter- Road. Carole Trottere, a town ror attacks will be honored at
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spokeswoman, said the town has hosted a memorial service since 2002, the first anniversary of the attacks, and the ceremony was moved to Mary Jane Davies Green in 2014 to Continued on Page 81
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