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I want to tell you something about my grandmother, Miriam Harris Goldberg, editor and publisher of the Denver-based Intermountain Jewish News weekly. She turned 100 years old on Wednesday! One … more

By Tehilla R. Goldberg | 5/25/16

100 years ago, Sykes-Picot messed up; We’re paying for secret MidEast map drawn in WWI

One-hundred years ago this month, British colonel Sir Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes and French diplomat François Marie Denis Georges-Picot divided the Middle East loosely and arbitrarily between … more

By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman | 5/25/16

From left: NBN chairman and co-founder Tony Gelbart, Scott R. Tobin; Dr. Rachel Levmore, IDF Staff Sgt. (res.) Sahar Elbaz, Barbara Levin, Sylvan Adams, Moshe Arens, Estelle Friedman, Professor Howard (Chaim) Cedar, and NBN Co-founder and Executive Director Rabbi Yehoshua Fass.

Nefesh B’Nefesh honors 6 outstanding olim

Nefesh B’Nefesh this week honored six recipients of the 2016 Sylvan Adams Nefesh B’Nefesh Bonei Zion Prize, during a Knesset ceremony in Jerusalem. NBN Co-Founder and Executive … more

5/25/16

Two-year old Abigail Lazarus delights in her rainbow snowcone at Sunday’s Kulanu Fair at Andrew J. Parise Park in Cedarhurst.

For kids, all kinds of fun at Kulanu Fair in Cedarhurst

The Kulanu Fair, last Sunday in Cedarhurst’s Andrew J. Parise Park, was a delight to children of all ages, and raised funds for Kulanu, a cherished Five Towns educational institution. Pictured … more

The Jewish Star photos by Susan Grieco | 5/25/16

Israel's biggest challenge isn’t BDS, it’s making Jews of its Russian citizens, confab told

The biggest challenge to Israel’s survival as the Jewish state isn’t the Boycott Disinvestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), and it’s not the poison that’s being spread … more

By Tiferet Schafler | 5/25/16

Outside Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, from left: Gural JCC Executive Director Joel Block, Mineola Rabbi Anchelle Perl, Jeff Ballabon of the American Center for Law and Justice, Hempstead Councilman Bruce Blakeman and Supervisor Anthony Santino.

Nassau says no to BDS; County and Hempstead bar boycott backers

Nassau County and the Town of Hempstead legislatures each moved this week to assert support for Israel by opposing the anti-Jewish state Boycott Disinvestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The … more

By The Jewish Star | 5/25/16

After gap year in Israel, keeping the spark alive

In the name of full disclosure let it be noted at the outset that the author of the book under review this week, Yankie Schwartz, was a former student of mine at the Chofetz Chaim High School in … more

By Alan Jay Gerber | 5/25/16

Message to Donald Trump’s Jewish supporters

“He’s not Hitler. He wants to help America.” Melania Trump’s comment about her husband, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, will go down as one of the more memorable quotes in an election cycle … more

By Ben Cohen | 5/22/16

Pictured in front at a ribbon-cutting ceremony are Turkish Presdient Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (left) and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu. On May 22, Davutoğlu will resign from his post.

Turkey’s political shift: What it mean to Israel

An Israeli diplomat indicated this week that the Jewish state and Turkey are continuing to make a concerted effort to rebuild the strained relationship that has existed between the former allies … more

By Alina Dain Sharon | 5/18/16

YIW BLUE: Tekhelet show-and-tell this Sunday in Woodmere

On Sunday, the Young Israel of Woodmere will showcase a color that was largely forgotten but now represents a living mitzvah. Sunday’s yom iyun (day of study) marks a quarter century since … more

The Jewish Star | 5/18/16