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Vol. 97 No. 27
JUlY 2 - 8, 2020
Town, villages delay move on coastal district civic association has opposed development of the club. “During this Covid period I After a nearly two-hour in- would see people walking person-and-virtual public hear- around the golf course, as they ing on June 23, the Town of needed a break when they got Hempstead and the villages of out of their homes,” Joseph, a Lawrence and Woodsburgh Woodsburgh resident, said. (Pubvoted to table the lic comments were decision on creating made online.) “They what is called a couldn’t go to the Coastal Conservaoffice or socialize, tion District at the but what they could Wo o d m e r e C l u b do is go for walks in until Wednesday, this beautiful open after the Herald area. This open area went to press. is a rarity in the The district F ive Tow n s — would be created by there’s nothing like an intermunicipal it, and it should be agreement between preserved.” the town and the vilIf approved, the lages of Lawrence new zoning district and Woodsburgh, MARIo JoSEpH would divide the 118with the aim of acre Woodmere Club Woodsburgh enhancing and property into three m a i n t a i n i n g t h e resident “subdistricts.” An nearby coastal 83.3-acre parcel, or area’s natural resources. Wood- 70 percent of the site, would be mere, where a majority of the designated an open space/recredevelopment could occur, is a ation subdistrict. There would hamlet within the town’s juris- also be a single-family residendiction. tial sub district of 29.4 acres, or Mario Joseph, former presi- 24 percent of the property, and a dent of the Five Towns Civic 5.7-acre clubhouse/hospitality Association, said that it was subdistrict accounting for 5 peressential for open space on the property to be preserved. The Continued on page 5
By MATTHEW FERREMI mferremi@liherald.com
Courtesy Orthodox Union
THE oRTHodox UNIoN created Torah New York nearly four years ago for a day of Jewish learning. At last year’s event at Citi Fleid were, from left, OU Chief Financial Officer Shlomo Schwartz, Director of Synagogue Services Rabbi Adir Posy, Executive Vice President Allen Fagin, President Moishe Bane, Rabbis Moshe Hauer and Efrem Goldberg and OU Chief Institutional Advancement Officer Arnold Gerson.
Woodmere resident retires as Orthodox Union’s EVP
Allen Fagin to be succeeded by Baltimore rabbi By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
After two decades as a volunteer for the Orthodox Union and the past six years as the organization’s executive vice president, Woodmere resident Allen Fagin is retiring from a job for the second time. Fagin, 70, is a lawyer who ended his first career as chairman of Proskauer Rose
LLP in 2013, after 38 years in the legal field. Since being named EVP of the Orthodox Union in 2014, Fagin, working hand in hand with Lawrence resident Moishe Bane, the union’s president, has created and enhanced several programs for the Manhattanbased organization, which was founded in 1898 and serves as an umbrella group for more than 400 synagogues in its nationwide network.
Rabbi Moshe Hauer, senior rabbi of Bnai Jacob Shaarei Zion Congregation in Baltimore — who, according to OU officials, has built his synagogue into one of the most vibrant places for learning and prayer during a 25-year career — will succeed Fagin on July 1. “I spent my entire professional life practicing law except my first year with the Continued on page 4
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his open area is a rarity in the Five Towns — there’s nothing like it, and it should be preserved.