Letters to the editor

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A call to support the JCC’s purchase of the #6 school

To the Editor:

The JCC of the Greater Five Towns has bid for the #6 School property that has been offered for sale by the Board of Education for School District #15. This acquisition will give the Five Towns what it is lacking: a community center where the entire community can come together under one roof.

Currently, the JCC is located primarily in “the little house on Grove Street.”  From there and a multitude of satellite sites, the JCC provides essential services to the community, including a Nursery School, Senior support programs, Traumatic Brain Injury programs, Food Pantry, After School Programs, Holocaust Survivor programs and the list goes on and on.  All segments of our community population can benefit or have benefited from the programs and services offered by the JCC.

In order to expand and reach everyone who needs or wants to be part of the JCC, we need to move to  a full service facility that will provide the classroom space, meeting room space, facilities for social and recreational activities for all ages and populations and the ability to be the community center our community deserves.

We urge the residents of School District #15 to support the efforts of the JCC to be an integral part of their lives and the lives of the community.  The JCC is already “home” to so many of our neighbors and friends; let us be “home” to everyone.

Diane & Michael Rattner

Woodmere

Another voice in favor of the JCC’s purchase of #6

To the Editor:

The Five Towns community has an opportunity to fill a void. A huge void that can only be filled by the expansion of the JCC of the Greater Five Towns into a full-service community center that would serve as a one-point entry for the entire community to receive social services, recreational activities, a pool, a gymnasium, support groups and so much more.

The JCC put a bid on School #6 that was put on sale by the Board of Education at School District #15. As per the JCC’s advertisement, this is a great opportunity for “one great organization which deserves one great location,” that the Five Towns community should support.

A full service Jewish Community Center would serve as a place where the entire community can come together in a home for our community under one roof. Each and every Jewish community, from the most affluent communities to the most humble has a Jewish Community Center. Why does the Five Towns, which is an active, vibrant Jewish community, not have one?

Rina Gross

Woodmere