HAFTR held its Eighth Annual Spring Classic Golf Outing on Tuesday, honoring the memory of former HAFTR student Jacob Greenberg. The event took place at the new Trump Golf Links Ferry Point on Long … more

California headlines this month scream “water shortage”—but the shortage is not limited to the western United States. According to a recent report by the U.S. Environmental … more

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For two weeks in June, Washington host a group of pro-Palestinian activists who have assembled an exhibit about the dispersion of the Palestinians during Israel’s War of Independence. The … more

Less can be more. Sometimes it isn’t. Keep this in mind as you select an image for an online professional or social site. Interesting persons with interesting faces should have more … more

The Jewish Women Entrepreneur, a national nonprofit organization that empowers Jewish women to launch and grow successful businesses, is officially opening a Five Towns Far Rockaway City Chapter on … more

A lavaya for Amtrak train derailment victim Justin Zemser, 20, took place last Friday in Hewlett at Riverside-Boulevard Chapel on Broadway. Zemser, of Rockaway Beach, was the youngest of eight … more

It’s interesting to study the haftorahs, the Prophetic scriptures added to weekly Torah readings. If you first scan the portion of the week and then read the haftorah, inevitably there is a … more

Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, Rabbi of Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst wrote, “The entirety of Torah, with its hundreds of thousands of letters, is represented by the sum total of all the souls … more

HAFTR students put their Jewish activism in gear on a trip to Washington during Norpac last week, meeting with Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee. From … more