The cemetery in Jerusalem’s Givat Shaul neighborhood was bathed in the fading sunlight of a late May afternoon. Silently and steadily, the column of mourners wound their way towards an open …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/28/15
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Reports coming out of Ramadi, Iraq and Palmyra, Syria convey hundreds of dead and burned bodies littering streets and thousands of people displaced and on the run. Loss after loss, setback after …
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By Susan Stamper Brown
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5/28/15
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President Obama visited the friendly confines of Adas Israel Synagogue in Washington on Friday and delivered a speech meant to reach out to the Jewish community and other supporters of Israel. …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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5/28/15
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It’s been a few weeks since I’ve written my column (apologies for the reprints), but I was busy planning an aufruf, catering the Friday night dinner, working on the seating for the …
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By Judy Joszef
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5/28/15
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After we’ve celebrated Shavuot and commemorated our receiving of Torah, it’s worth remembering that it almost didn’t transpire. In tractate Shabbat 88b, many of the famous …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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5/28/15
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The Jewish Star is a unique product in the crowded field of Orthodox Jewish journalism: a professional newspaper within the Orthodox communities of Long Island.
To better serve our communities, we …
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5/28/15
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After meeting Jack Silberstein last week in his Brooklyn office and cooking his wonderful Beef Merguez Sausages, I’d like the share my findings.
First I sautéed the sausages in a …
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The Jewish Star Staff
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5/28/15
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2011 Yarden Katzrin has been released by Golan Heights Winery, the leading premium winery in Israel. The flagship wine is only produced from grapes harvested during the most outstanding …
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Golan Heights Winery
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5/28/15
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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 …
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Touro College
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5/28/15
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Congratulations and Mazal Tov to the HANC High School Boys’ Torah Bowl Team on becoming this year’s High School Yeshiva League Champions!
Over the course of the season, the HANC …
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By Ari Levine, Team Captain
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5/28/15
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