After COVID-19 vaccines started becoming available in New York and it quickly became apparent that securing a vaccine appointment presented a huge challenge, thew Young Israel of Oceanside and the … more

Forty-five people joined a Young Israel of Woodmere trip to the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia last Sunday. During the two hour bus ride to the museum, Rabbi Evan Hoffman … more

The Jewish nation will move from sorry to joy as the sun sets on Monday, May 1, and the day’s commemoration of Yom Ha’Zikaron (Israel’s memorial day) morphs into a celebration of … more

There’s yiddishkeit in Brooklyn beyond Boro Park-Flatbush, Crown Heights and Williamsburg. There’s Brooklyn Heights, heart of the borough’s Manhattan-centric Brownstone belt. The … more

Let’s all take a deep breath. Those of us who are not addicted to … more

Boxes of letters covered a conference room table in the White House last Wednesday as 40 children from the Young Israel of Woodmere — the largest Young Island congregation in the United States … more

A lengthy, threatening note … more

The keynote speaker at Sunday night’s Five Towns Community-Wide Holocaust Commemoration said that tolerance, obviously missing from Europe in the years surrounding World War II, is the … more