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Teens find new summer activities
Planning to reopen schools State deadline for plans is July 31 month. “Life has changed radically for New York’s students, parents and educators during jbessen@liherald.com, mferremi@liherald.com the unprecedented Covid-19 In what has become a familiar emergency, and we have to prosetting amid the coronavirus vide flexibility to districts in our pandemic, the New York State new normal,” Rosa said during Board of Regents met virtually Monday’s meeting. on Monday to dis“Today the Board of cuss the findings of Regents has adopted a task force made up emergency regulaof parents, school tions that af ford officials, students essential flexibility and teachers that for educators, stuwas convened in dents and profesJune to collect opinsionals to address i o n s o n h ow t o issues due to the reopen schools. Covid-19 pandemic.” T h e B o a rd o f To adhere to the Re g e n t s re c o m state’s social distancmended that school ing guidelines, districts create plans school districts will for in-person have to hold some instruction, remote classes in larger i n s t r u c t i o n a n d RICHARD spaces, such as cafewhat is being called terias and g yms. hybrid instruction, a HAGlER SED Interim Commix of in-person Executive director, missioner Shannon and distance learn- HALB Tahoe said that each ing. The guidance district would have given on Monday to make its own was expected to be distributed to adjustments. school districts by Wednesday. “As school districts think District reopening plans must be through how they will support submitted to the State Education social distancing throughout Department by July 31. their buildings, they’ll have to Regents Chancellor Betty A. consider whether the physical Rosa noted that the recommen- structure of the space as curdations came after four virtual rently set up will put students Board of Regents meetings last Continued on page 5
By JEFFREY BESSEN and MATTHEW FERREMI
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Courtesy Sephardic Temple
RABBI ARNolD B. Marans helped establish the Sephardic Temple in Cedarhurst and was a mentor and friend to his congregants.
Rabbi Arnold B. Marans, 92 Sephardic Temple’s first spiritual leader By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
An accomplished spiritual leader with a largge family and many friends, Rabbi Arnold B. Marans was the founding rabbi of the Sephardic Temple of Cedarhurst, and served as a chaplain and was active in Jewish organizations. Marans died on July 12, his 92nd birthday. Born in Brooklyn in 1928
to Harry and Rose Marans, Arnold studied philosophy at City College of New York and earned a degree in social sciences in 1949. Four years later he was ordained as a rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and also earned a master’s degree in Hebrew literature. In 1980 he was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree by the seminary. He began his rabbinical career at the United Sep-
hardim of Brooklyn in 1954. At the time it was a community of young Sephardic Jews from a number of congregations founded by people from Greece and Turkey. The Sephardim originally came from communities in the Iberian Peninsula. Marans became the founding rabbi of the newly established Sephardic Temple in Cedarhurst in 1961, three years before the temple buildContinued on page 7
e’re going to do our very best to comply and follow the mandates set forth by the state.