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Gathering to pay tribute on Yom HaShoah 3,700 in 2022. It also noted significant increases in incidents in larg e American cities, Dozens of people gathered at including New York City and the Holocaust Tolerance and Los Angeles. “To be Jewish is to rememMemorial Center in Glen Cove last Sunday to commemorate ber — to claim our right to Yom HaShoah — Holocaust memory, as well as our duty to Remembrance Day, which pays keep it alive,” Rabbi Michael Churgel, of North tribute to the 6 milC o u n t r y Re fo r m lion Jews that were Temple, said. killed in World War “There is evil in II. Glen Cove City the world, we canCouncilwoman Marsha Silverman, not let ourselves Congregation Tifeforget, yet to reth Israel and remember the North Country goodness of our Re fo r m Te m p l e loved ones is to find welcomed Jews and GAIL KASTENHOLZ a way to trust the non-Jews to honor Daughter of wo rl d a g a i n , t o the millions of vicplace the moments Holocaust survivors tims of the Holoin our sacred calencaust. dar. These are the This year’s remembrance purposes of Yom HaShoah.” had a heightened sense of The observance also comurgency, seven months after memorates the beginning of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of the deadliest single day in the 1943, when a band of Jewish country’s history. Antisemitism resistance fighters in the larghas surged worldwide, accord- est Nazi ghetto in World War II ing to the Anti-Defamation managed to defy their wellLeague, which has reported a armed German occupiers. steep jump in incidents in the T h e e ve n i n g ’s k e y n o t e months since. The ADL record- speaker, Gail Kastenholz, is the ed more than 7,500 antisemitic daughter of two Holocaust surepisodes in the United States in vivors, and has dedicated her2023, compared with fewer than CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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Delivering joy to seniors with love Volunteers and staff from the Life Enrichment Center of Oyster Bay surprised several seniors who can’t leave their homes by delivering beautifully prepared care packages. Millie Tedaldi, right, who curled the ribbons, helped Beth Spickler-Lerman, far left above, Carmela Lancaster, Diane Aerne, Doris Gribbin and Mary Frignani create roughly 30 gift baskets for the Homebound Spring Basket annual giving event. More photos, Page 10.
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