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No cause for alarm: ‘National Hate Day’ flops indicated there have been a few sightings of flyers stapled to telephone poles, but that the White nationalist groups d e p a r t m e n t ’s i n t e l l i g e n c e declared last Saturday National sources have garnered no inforHate Day, which prompted mation to warrant cause for authorities and synagogues to alarm.” alert the public. Nonethless, the police preThe Hewlett/East Rockaway cinct put added measures into Jewish Center sent p l a c e, i n cl u d i n g out an email to roving patrol cars alert congregants near all synagogues about the supposed in the surrounding day of hate. Neoareas throughout Nazi and white the day, more plainnationalist groups clothes of ficers threatened provocadeployed throughtive behavior that out the community, could lead to vioassistance from the lence. N e w Yo rk S t a t e The HERJC was H i g h w ay Pat ro l , in contact with and the activation local law enforceof the department’s ment and the JewSWAT team to be at ish Defense League the ready should an to deter mine the incident occur. ap p ro p r i at e w ay “For HERJC, the forward. question is whether “In my conversa- sTePHeN Shabbat services on tions with Nassau MoelIs Saturday morning County’s 4th Pre- president, HERJC should be switched cinct Police Departto (online videoconment this week,” ferencing) ZoomStephen Moelis, president of only or whether our Sanctuary HERJC, wrote in an email sent should be open to those who out to congregants. wish to attend services in per“The officer in charge of the son,” Moelis wrote in the email. department’s response unit Continued on page 18
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Courtesy Tom Lynch
ToM lyNCH TeACHes how to view the night sky through the Orion StarBlast telescope.
A Lynbrook man’s stellar idea Telescope program lifts off at county libraries By BeN FIeBeRT bfiebert@liherald.com
Tom Lynch is reaching for the stars, and wants to bring libraries from across Nassau County with him. Lynch introduced a telescope program to the Lynbrook Public Library in 2015. After seeing its success, he worked to get the program into other libraries in Nassau County. With 15 libraries currently making use of the program, Lynch does not plan to stop the push for expansion any time soon. “There are over 900 libraries that have this program now,” he said. “They are mostly in the United States, (but) there’s over 100
in Canada, there’s some in the Netherlands, and in the U.K.” The program was created by the New Hampshire Astronomical Society in 2008. When Lynch heard about it in 2015, he immediately wanted to bring it to his hometown library. “Pretty much almost every library in New Hampshire has a telescope,” Lynch said. “At least one, but many of them have three, four or five.” Lynch was amazed at how big the program became in New Hampshire and wanted to bring it to Long Island. “I’ve been doing this kind of on my own,” Lynch said. “I’m a member of the Amateur Continued on page 20
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encouragement of hate must be met with an equal level of determination not to cower in fear.