While public schools in the Five Towns, and local yeshivas, are taking measures to combat antisemitism in their academic environments, Richard Altabe, the lower school principal at the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, says that more should have been done sooner.
Rallies, news conferences and prayer ceremonies in support of Israel have taken place across Nassau County, and more are expected amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. At yeshivas in the Five Towns, the reaction has been somewhat different, but no less heartfelt.