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By Combined Sources Nassau County Police on Tuesday arrested a 20-year-old Nassau Community College student who they allege drew antiSemitic graffiti at the Garden City school. The arrest came as several incidents of red spray-painted swastikas and other hate incidents were reported elsewhere on Long Island, including a sidewalk outside a private home that was vandalized with multiple red swastikas and “Make America White Again� graffiti and swastikas and other antiSemitic graffiti painted on a wall outside a 7-Eleven. Swastikas were drawn in the snow in Merrick and Mineola on Sunday, according to reports.

At Nassau Community College, the student was charged with scrawling graffiti in the G building on Friday and is also implicated in other acts of vandalism, some featuring the words “Germany� and “Heil Hitler.� A police spokesman said there had been as many as 110 incidents at the college since October and that nearly all of them were directed at Jews. Police quoted the suspect, of Plainview, as saying that he was “not happy with the Jewish population in his community and how he was treated by them.� “We have seen quite a concerning uptick in swastika vandalism across New York State,� Evan Bernstein, ADL’s New York re-

gional director, said in a statement on Monday. “Unfortunately, Nassau County is the latest in a string of incidents. “While these attacks are most likely not connected, we see that Long Island towns are not immune to such disturbing acts of hate. It is incumbent upon community and religious leaders and Nassau County leadership to forcefully denounce these manifestations of hate whenever and wherever they surface.� New York City police have reported a 400 percent increase in such incidents since the Nov. 8 presidential election. Police are investigating the incidents, including those in Merrick and Mineola, as hate crimes, the Daily News reported.

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Continued from page 10 a diagnosis of ovarian cancer without sinking into despair. But I’m not a particularly courageous person. As Oliver Sacks, the author and neurologist who died last year, wrote, “I can’t pretend I’m without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.� I’m lucky to be under the care of a top oncologist who remains optimistic about my plight. I’m lucky to be the beneficiary of a support system that includes a fan club of friends, my ready-to-drop-anything parents and a superhero husband — in the guise of a balding, bearded Jewish dad who is capable of rescuing, in a single bound, a teenager confused by biology homework, a child needing to be picked up from basketball, and an ailing wife. Meanwhile, of course, he’s preparing dinner, cleaning dishes and, not incidentally, working as a lawyer. Yet I’m also lucky in another way: Like others “living with cancer� or some other chronic illness, I have a deeper appreciation of the present moment and a stronger grasp how one’s world can flip upside down without warning. So while I plod through the darkness of sickness, I am also illuminated by the expected and unexpected marvels of everyday. The Chanukah story invokes the joy and hope that light can offer us in difficult times. The “miracle of light� — that a single vessel should contain enough oil to burn for eight nights — signifies the Jews’ ability to endure amid adversity. To reflect upon the “miracles of light� in our own lives helps us cope when hardships strike. The practice helps us remain strong in situations where we lack much control, whether we’re confronting a personal tragedy or an unprecedented challenge in the larger world. I used to be a fervent reader of parenting blogs. I was especially drawn to tales that seemed most tragic — a bereaved mom bringing up a baby without her spouse; parents raising a child with multiple cognitive disorders; a mom dealing with a grave diagnosis of cancer. I remember sobbing while I read the story about this last mom, of how her life transformed in one day. She had been stressed about mortgage bills and college tuitions, about getting everyone out the door on time, about ambitions for both career and family, when suddenly — bang. Cancer knocked at her door, and she never looked back at the frustrations of the old life. She entered a foreign land — that of the sick. In reality, the lands of the sick and the healthy aren’t as far apart as I once imagined. Paul Cowen, author of “An Orphan in History,� about finding Judaism, was diagnosed with leukemia just before his 47th birthday. “Until that day, I had assumed that health and sickness were separate, distinct terrains,� he wrote in the Village Voice. “I’ve since learned that those boundaries don’t really exist. Instead the world is composed of the sick and the not-yet sick.� While that is a sobering concept, I’m more surprised by how my new world continues to resemble my old one. I’m still impatient when a child chatters on incessantly about the magic of chromosomes because, well, it’s 8:30 pm and it’s me-time. I am still infuriated when one child, teasing, pretends to snap an unflattering iPhone picture of her brother. I am still bogged down by irritations and insecurities. But I also celebrate. The many small graces of life loom larger and brighter. I sing the body electrified by winter sunshine. I honor last week’s memory of running in Riverside Park. I rejoice over the thought of wrapping myself in the warmth of family and friends when we kindle the lights of Chanukah.

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