{"id":71393,"date":"2025-12-15T19:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71393\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:39:06","slug":"focus-on-the-great-neck-peninsula-the-irrepressible-edna-mashaal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71393\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on the Great Neck Peninsula: The irrepressible Edna Mashaal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>For this week\u2019s Focus, I recently sat with longtime Great Neck resident and business owner, Edna Mashaal. She, with the dancing hazel eyes and signature laugh. \u00a0Step inside, into the world of Edna Mashaal.<\/p>\n<p>The name Mashaal means \u201ctorch,\u201d \u201cflame,\u201d or \u201cfirebrand\u201d in Arabic. It symbolizes light, radiance, and the ability to illuminate darkness. Quite apropos, given the Hanukkah and holiday season upon us.\u00a0 Be the light!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.longislandpress.com\/2025\/12\/15\/focus-on-the-great-neck-peninsula-the-irrepressible-edna-mashaal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at LI Press &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tFocus on the Great Neck Peninsula: The irrepressible Edna Mashaal &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; For this week\u2019s Focus, I recently sat with longtime Great Neck resident and business owner, Edna Mashaal.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2692,36399,7946,12628,267,9,24,20684,63,18232,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-71393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-columns","9":"tag-edna-mashaal","10":"tag-great-neck","11":"tag-janet-nina-esagoff","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-north-hempstead","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-opinions","18":"tag-queens","19":"tag-queens-headlines","20":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}