100-year-old Abraham Antman danced with his daughter and Yoel Sharabi, master performer of modern Israeli and Chassidic melodies, at an concert for residents of Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Jamaica Hills. See the video at:: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMpiqHcThgI Or on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=161437620727127&set=vb.31468467744&type=2&theater more

As the Jewish world focuses on teshuva and spiritually preparing for the New Year, it is also gearing up for three sets of three-day yomim tovim (holidays), with Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot falling on Thursdays and Fridays followed by Shabbat. Careful planning for this confluence of feast days by Gourmet Glatt, a kosher supermarket in Cedarhurst, may make holiday food shopping and preparation a bit easier. more

A model of the Bait Hamikdash — the Temple that was on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem — is coming to Long Island in the New Year, part of a campaign to make Judaism’s ancient spiritual citadel something tangible, right here, right now. “People sometimes think that the Bait Hamikdash (Temple) has nothing to do with us,” said Rabbi Mordechai Persoff, educational director of Machon Hamikdash (Temple Institute). “It was 2,000 years ago, or it’s for the times of Mashiach another 2,000 years from now.” more

Aaron Tepfer attended the school where his mother is a fifth grade teacher. The 10-year-old was heading into the sixth grade at Yeshiva Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway. Monday would have been his first day of school. more

Yeshiva and Bar-Ilan Universities formed “a good shidduch” (match) for the third time this summer, with 28 YU students working with some of Israel’s top scientists at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. more

Marshmallow, Morah Karen Yager’s beloved classroom guinea pig pet, almost didn’t make it to the start of the school year. Happily, she’ll be back with the four-year-olds when nursery classes resume at the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach’s Lev Chana Early Childhood Center, thanks to the efforts of a kind veterinarian. more

A report by an international legal firm said this week that Yeshiva University ignored allegations of sexual and physical abuse in some of its schools prior to 2001 but has since improved its policies and monitoring. more

The outreach organizaiton CHAZAQ celebrated its inaugural dinner in Great Neck on August 26 with the completion of a Torah scroll. more

What in the world did we do before cell phones? Wait, I think I actually recall. We would make plans and have to stick to them! If we made up to meet our friends, we had to be there on time. Of course there were instances when we would be standing there for over half an hour without a friend in sight. Did I have the wrong location? Should I walk a block or two to a pay phone and call her house to see if she left? What if I walked to the pay phone and then I missed her? more

Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky told the Ohel Sarah Amen Group in Lawrence that Elul is a time for teshuvah (self-improvement), yet how to do teshuvah is frequently elusive and people feel year after year that they are trying to improve the same midot (charactersics). more