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Several local synagogues are participating in a forum Wednesday on combating anti-Semitism. Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney K. Harrison are scheduled to speak at the forum at Suffolk Y JCC in Commack. Among the participating synagogues are Dix Hills Read More …
The Huntington Town Board on Friday condemned an anti-Semitic flyer that was delivered to a Huntington woman earllier this week. The flyer, from a group called the Goyim Defense League, mixed political slogans with anti-Semitic tropes, labeling photos of members of President Biden’s Cabiniet with Read More …
A Huntington man was arrested Tuesday and charged with a hate crime after a sign for Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin was vandalized and marked with a swastika. Hate Crimes Unit detectives arrested Vincent J. Mckie, 41, outside his home on Oakwood Road and charged Read More …
Residents gathered in a Northport park Saturday to support efforts against hate and bigotry. The family gathering, which included music, activities for kids and giveaways for children and adults, was sponsored by the Northport chapter of Not in Our Town, a national organization dedicated to Read More …
Northport Village authorities Monday condemned a recent series of bias incidents that have occurred around the village. On Sunday, a performer in “Smokey Joe’s” at Engeman Theater reported that they were the target of a racial slur, shouted by a white man in a car, Read More …
A rabbi whose Hebrew school students were accosted by a man during a Rosh Hashanah ceremony in Northport has asked for police presence next year. Rabbi Ian J. Silverman of the East Northport Jewish Center said pupils were participating in a ceremony Sept.14 involving the Read More …
BY WILLIAM V. FERRO As I woke a few days ago, prepared to celebrate the first day of Hanukkah, I thought about the current state of our country from a different perspective. As a graduate of John Glenn High School in Suffolk County, I was Read More …
Huntington residents of different faiths packed Kehillath Shalom Synagogue in Cold Spring Harbor Sunday night to mourn the 11 Jewish congregants slain Saturday in Pittsburgh. The gathering included prayers, songs, recitations of the names of the dead and a call to remember that love trumps Read More …