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June 12th, 2009 | 20 Sivan 5769

Vol. 9, Iss. 21

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GUNMAN MURDERS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM GUARD NEW YORK POLICE ON HIGH ALERT

HIKIND VS. BLOOMBERG: BROOKLYN HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL PARK CONTROVERSY CONTINUES BY ALLISON WITTY Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a child of Holocaust survivors, is leading the charge to prevent the Mayor and the Parks Department from moving forward with plans to install additional markers at Brooklyn’s Holocaust Memorial Park. These would allow other groups persecuted by the Nazis during World War II. The City is expected to implement these changes soon.

Heavily armed police surrounded the Washington Holocaust Museum; police inspected locations throughtout the city. BY MAXINE DOVERE As news of the shooting at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. spread, the defense mechanisms of the New York City Police Department and the Jewish community immediately sprang into action.

ithin minutes of notification of the Washington shooting, The Jewish Voice spoke with an officer of at the 19th, the precinct which polices the Manhattan area housing the Jewish Museum and many other historic and internationally known synagogues and jewish institutions. Among them are the Park Avenue Synagogue (and the Solomon Schechter School) the Park East

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REPUBLICANS KNOCK OUT DEMOCRATS IN ALBANY

Courtesy Office of Senator Skelos

(l/r) Senators Skelos and Espada get swore in by Senator John DeFrancisco of Syracuse.

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ocated in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, the Holocaust Memorial Park was the brainchild of the Holocaust Memorial Committee which formally dedicated the Memorial in 1997. The Park consists of 234 upright granite markers, eighty percent of which are inscribed with historic and literary text specifically relating to the uniquely Jewish experience of the Holocaust. The other twenty percent of the stones were intentionally left blank for symbolic reasons. Advocates for the new markers contend that homosexuals, “Gypsies” (Roma and Sinti), the physically and mentally disabled, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and political prisoners should also be represented in the Park with their own distinct marker. The Holocaust Memorial Committee has

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