More than 1,000 people trekked to the New York Marriott Marquis last week to support the 1,300 family strong Bel El community in the Judea and Samaria region of Israel. Danny Danon, a member of the Israeli Knesset and the country’s deputy minister of defense, joined keynote speaker Lt. Col Ralph Peters in discussing the threats posed to Israel by Palestinian terrorist groups and the Iranian regime. more

Thanks to the Great Neck Park District Supervisors, Orthodox Jewish residents of Great Neck and surrounding areas are now able to participate in the Great Neck Bruins Travel Hockey Team. more

More than 45 Rambam talmidim learn Torah at least an extra two and a half hours each week after school and during lunch to be part of the Rambam Mesivta Masmidim Program … however, the reality is that while that is the minimum requirement, most of the talmidim learn even more. more

Turquoise barstools punctuate trash-strewn ruins of Grossinger’s coffee shop. A jumble of weeds clogs the outdoor pool of the Pines Hotel. Colorful furniture rots inside the Nevele’s ski chalet. In the museum debut of a major photographic talent, Yeshiva University Museum is presenting Marisa Scheinfeld’s haunting photos of abandoned sites where Borscht Belt resorts once boomed in the Catskill Mountain region of upstate New York. more

They came from Beerhseva in the south through to Haifa in the north. They came to celebrate their Bar Mitzvahs and their Bat Mitzvahs, to commit themselves to their people and to their … more

As a volunteer at the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Brooklyn, it pained Naomi Broker to see patients so afraid to fall that they refused to walk, eventually losing the ability to do so … more

Two weeks after the murder of her father and brother, Sarah Techiya Litman married Ariel Beigel in Binyanei Hauma in Jerusalem and invited the country to share in her simcha. A painting made by … more

More than 325 people participated in the 38th annual dinner of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, held Sunday night at the HAFTR Sports Complex in Lawrence. This year, the HAFTR … more

In recent years, too many in the African-American community have displayed an aversion to Holocaust topics, seeing the genocide of Jews as someone else’s nightmare. After all, African-Americans … more

For the first time, the State Department has explicitly accused the Palestinian Authority of promoting anti-Semitism, a signal Jewish groups hope will lead to a change in U.S. policy.According to a … more