Adar Sheni was truly a month filled with simcha here in Shulamith Middle Division. more

Students at Mesivta Ateres Yaakov in Lawrence raised money and bought a rescue boat for the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department. more

West Hempstead resident Raquel Bodner ran in the Jerusalem Matathon as a member of Team AMIT, helping to raise more than $16,000 for the children of AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled. more

A select group of students from the North Shore Hebrew Academy HS (NSHAHS) journeyed to Israel last month to run in the Jerusalem Marathon in support of Shalva, an Israeli organization that focuses on helping individuals with special needs. more

Kulanu Academy students joined the cause to raise awareness of those who have lost their lives due to anaphylaxis, a severe whole-body allergic reaction to a chemical that has become an allergen, by participating in the 1st Annual Worldwide “Love Remembers Day.” more

There wasn’t an empty seat in Margaret Tietz’s main dining room as providers and caregivers of individuals with dementia gathered for an eye-opening symposium by experts in the field. more

The new Mt. Sinai Five Towns Medical Group, a multispecialty practice and urgent care center in the old Verizon building at 436 Broadway in Hewlett, celebrated its opening with a ceremony that included the affixing of a mezuzah to the building’s entrance doorway by Dr. Peter Tesler. more

Israel is a country that has spent more than six decades weaving the two formerly disparate basic branches of the Jewish family, Sephardim and Ashkenazim, into one people. These days, nary an eyebrow is raised as they hang out, date, and marry in the Jewish state, and most of their cultural differences have nearly evaporated. more

Students from Jewish Academy, Suffolk’s only Jewish day school, visited Touro Law school on Tuesday to participate in a mock trial exercise with law students. more

The Young Israel of Woodmere pulsed with pre-Pesach activity on Sunday, as scribes checked the kashrut of tefillin and mezuzzot, vendors collected sheimot or sheimos (worn out Hebrew books and papers that must buried in a cemetery) and tested for sha’atnez (the forbidden mixture of wool and linen in one garment) and food drives involving both chametz and Passover items were underway. more