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City asks for revitalization suggestions munities in its initial round. Both initiatives are designed to generate investment, with Glen Cove’s downtown has every dollar committed estit h r iv i n g bu s i n e s s e s, l u s h mated to spur an additional $3 greenery, and string lights that of investments. To apply for the g rant, blanket evening shoppers in a soft, warm glow. Although the municipalities throughout the state submit appliambiance, the cations, which diverse businesses include community and the Downtown feedback from the Sounds summer Regional Economic concert series Development Counalready attract visicil, in the hope of t o r s f ro m o t h e r transforming parts of the North downtown neighShore, the city is borhoods into asking community vibrant communimembers what ties where the next improvements generation of New they’d like to see in the downtown area. KATRINA MICHELLE Yorkers will want to live, work and T h e s u r v e y, Founder, raise families. which is accepting Curious Spirit John Robinson, responses until a masseur with Se pt. 14, will be part of the city’s grant applica- Glen Cove Massage, said he tion for the state’s Downtown hoped to see a designated yearRevitalization Initiative, which round, community-oriented launched in 2016. The program, space for the marketing of local led by the Department of State, produce and products, which has awarded some $700 million he feels would uphold the spirit to 69 communities. It has also of local farmers markets. Katrina Michelle, a holistic contributed to the creation of over 3,000 new housing units. psychotherapist and the foundSimilarly, NY Forward, estab- er of the Curious Spirit, said lished in the 2019 budget has she hoped to see a common awarded $100 million to 24 comCONTINUED ON PAGE 15
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Ready to take on the academic world Mikayla Arias, left, and Peyton Cardenas had everything they needed for their first day of school at Deasy Elementary School on Tuesday. Story, more photos, Page 3.
New museum director to bridge the Holocaust education gap By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
Mojgan “Moji” Pourmoradi, the new director of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, said she hopes to help bridge gaps in education about the atrocities against Jewish people during World War II. She believes that education is key to combating history’s cyclical tendency to tolerate antisemitism. “I think that one of my jobs in life is to be a connector,” Pourmoradi said. “Teaching people, being part of their educational journey, is beautiful. So many of the volunteers here are children of survivors who honor their stories. For me to be a part of that, it’s an honor.” The horrors of genocide in World War II aren’t an easy topic to discuss. Entire families and their
communities vanished, many were forced to flee their homelands, and others were detained in concentration camps. Pourmoradi knows that as time marches forward, connections to the past fade away, and history often forgets valuable lessons for humanity, unless people advocate for education. Although she has a career in education with the Great Neck school district and has experience as a community leader for the district’s Parent Teacher Organization, the Iranian-born 55-yearold said she remembers feeling like an outcast as a child, and struggled to balance culture, identify and community. Pourmoradi came to the United States when she was 5 months old, when her parents sensed a rise in antisemitism and the start of political upheaval in Iran. She spent most of her CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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