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April 4, 2024
Vol. 31 No. 15
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Forecast calls for sun with a passing moon Dame Forbes, science department chairperson for the district, said. “And we wanted to East Rockaway students are do this so the students can get a gearing up for an astronomical hands-on experience in engagevent that won’t happen in the ing with a natural phenomenon that is not going to local area again for happen in our area over 50 years. for quite some The total solar time.” eclipse will cross North America Forbes explained April 8, entering that the next total southwestern solar eclipse to hapTexas at 12:23 CDT pen in New York and exiting Maine will happen again at 4:40 EDT. Parts in 2079. This is why of norther n New she wanted to give York will be in the the students an p at h o f t o t a l i t y opportunity to not where the moon only experience the will completely event, but also betcover the sun and ter understand cause day to their coursework become night for by s e e i n g w h a t about four minutes they’re learning in at 3 : 2 0 p. m . O n their textbooks Long Island, only come to life. about 90% of the “We’re basically sun will be covered DAmE FoRBEs going to have the by the moon, which Science department kids go outside and is enough for ninth chair, East Rockaway safely observe the graders to receive schools solar eclipse using an hour-long, intercertified glasses for active lesson on the solar eclipse vieweclipse. ing,” Brian Crowley, East Rock“All of our ninth graders are away High School earth science taking earth science and we felt teacher, said. “While they’re that this would be a really doing that, they’re going to be strong tie to the curriculum,”
By BEN FIEBERT
bfiebert@liherald.com
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Courtesy Amit Ades
The Ades family at a gas station after they survived 36 hours of Hamas attacks on their kibbutz. From left were Ori, 7, Shir, 5, Amit, Tomer and Ellie, 1.
Survivors of Kfar Aza, an Israeli kibbutz, speak in Lynbrook By BEN FIEBERT bfiebert@liherald.com
Amit and Tomer Ades decorated their home in the beginning of October to celebrate their son’s fifth birthday. What they didn’t prepare for was celebrating his birthday in a safe room while hearing gunfire outside draw closer and closer. Oct. 7 was a dreadful day for the Ades family and their kibbutz, Kfar Aza, in Israel. Amit and Tomer, along with their three children, Ori, 7, Shir, 5, and Ellie, 1, narrowly escaped Hamas’ attack on their community, which is about a mile from the Gaza border. On March 17, neighbors gathered at Temple Am Echad, in Lynbrook, to listen to Amit and Tomer recount their harrowing experi-
ence. They came to Lynbrook via a campaign with Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy, a private, modern Orthodox Jewish day school in New York City. The campaign, dubbed the “Kfar Aza Awareness Campaign,” sponsored Amit and Tomer to travel to the states and talk about their experience. When Tova Markowitz, a close friend of a family member of Amit and Tomer, heard that they were coming to speak in the United States at universities, law firms and community centers, she suggested that they should speak in her community, at the Lynbrook temple. The last-minute trip to Lynbrook last month drew a large crowd, as locals learned about the horrors that Amit and Tomer had COnTinuEd On pAgE 10
e wanted to do this so the students can get a handson experience in engaging with a natural phenomenon that is not going to happen in our area for quite some time.
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