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Town OKs pause in building By KEPHERD DANIEl kdaniel@liherald.com
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MoRE THAN 100 Five Towns residents attended the Sept. 20 hearing at which the Town of Hempstead approved a temporary ban on building in those communities.
The Hempstead Town Board voted unanimously last week to approve a six-month moratorium to halt building in what is known as the Business Overlay and Transit Oriented Development district in Inwood and North Lawrence. That area consists of roughly 11.7 acres near the Lawrence Long Island Rail Road station, and nearly nine acres near the Inwood station. The Sept. 20 vote was welContinued on page 14
HAFTR debate team director creates league for yeshivas By HERNESTo GAlDAMEZ Special to the Herald
Hebrew Academy of the Five Tow n s & Ro ck aw ay H i g h School’s debate team has been unable to compete in tournaments held on Fridays and Saturdays, and the team’s director and coach, Alex Libkind, decided that he needed to do something about that. For observant Jews, no work can be done from sunset on Friday until sunset Saturday because of Shabbat — Hebrew for Sabbath, from the Hebrew word for rest. That has created a problem for students from
schools such as HAFTR who want to take part in National Speech & Debate Association competition. The association was founded in 1925, and students compete in its tournaments with the goal of advancing to its national competition. “Historically, those tournaments have always been on Shabbat — Fridays and Saturdays,” Libkind said. As a result, it has been difficult for yeshivas to qualify for the association’s national championship. Lauren Burdt, the organization’s director of competition and events, spoke with Libkind in March about having HAFTR
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e are grateful for the work that Alex has done. lAuREN BuRDT
National Speech & Debate Association take part in the NSDA’s online Springboard scrimmages on T u e s d ay s a n d T h u r s d ay s. HAFTR began doing so that month. Four such Tuesday-andThursday scrimmages are offered during NSDA’s competi-
tive season, which begins in September and runs through March. “He shared that the Springboard rounds are some of the first NSDA events his students have been able to participate in,” Burdt said, “because most tournaments, including the district qualifying tournaments, are held on Fridays and Saturdays.”
Libkind was not focused on religion when he was growing up in St. Louis, but he became interested in debate as a teenager. As a sophomore at Parkway North High School in St. Louis County, he recruited a teacher he remembers as Mrs. Monanco to be the faculty adviser of a newly Continued on page 14