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Jolly Fisherman founder dies at the age of 95 Restaurant owner was also a pilot, civil rights activist, enemy of President Nixon BY ST E V E N K E E H N E R Fred Scheiner, a Roslyn restaurant owner, pilot, political activist who earned a spot on President Nixon’s enemies list and father, died on the morning of June 5 at 95. Scheiner was born on May 8, 1927. He joined his parents, Max and Frances, in the restaurant business in 1951, following a brief spell as a carpenter, where theylaunched The Jolly Fisherman & Steak House in Roslyn in 1957. The Jolly Fisherman has been in the Scheiner family for three generations. Today, it is owned and operated by his son, Steven Scheiner, and it remains a significant piece of Roslyn’s history. Steven reflected on his father’s life in a Facebook post. He said that The Jolly Fisherman is still going strong because of the great foundation he established. “He had a full life. He was a businessman, a family man, a pilot, a political gadfly,” he wrote. “When much younger, he worked towards various (far) left goals.” Steven admitted that, while he was mentally alert, his father’s body had gotten physically drained towards the end of his life. According to his obituary, he was deeply committed to social, economic and racial justice and equality. In 1978,
the New York Times profiled him partially about this and his hobby as a pilot. “Right now there are more people coming into flying than in a long time,” Scheiner told the Times. “I think it’s replacing golf. It’s a middle class thing and the airports out here are full of guys who want to learn.” Scheiner was one of several North Shore Jews who were early and constant supporters of Dr. Marin Luthere King’s civil rights initiatives and were among his primary financial backers. “More than particularized catPHOTO COURTESY OF WENDY WISNER egories of melting pot and salad bowl, more than a spectrum from ethnicity to A tribute to the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas during a March acculturation to assimilation to culturfor Our Lives rally Saturday in Great Neck. See story on page 3. al pluralism, North Shore Jews, identified above, shared with Dr. King the deeper American Experiment commitment to a principled society in which all had a chance to proceed based on the content of their character,” then columnist Michael D’Innocenzo wrote in 2018. This all came together on March 25, 1968, when he flew Martin Luther King Jr. to a conference in upstate New York in his four-passenger jet. King had traveled to Long Island after hearMayor Michael Koblenz sugThe first matter discussed was in BY S A R A H N G ing from his Jewish acquaintances that relation to a special request for the gested the village reimburse the grill there was a pressing need to combat The East Hills’ board of trust- operator of the grill. Since the pool operator for the over $2,000 loss by escalating antisemitism, particularly in ees meeting on Tuesday had a short could not open as scheduled due to amending the contract, which was New York City and other major cities. agenda centered around the commu- needed repairs, the grill had to throw approved by the board, with TrustContinued on Page 46 nity’s pool and related topics for this out the food they had prepared for ee Clara Pomerantz calling it a “no Continued on Page 46 Memorial Day. summer.
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