Flashback for Dec 5, 2014

2002 —  A front page column is titled, “Lessons learned from a jelly donut; Sweet on the other side of bitter.”

2003 —  Police probe bias crimes in the Five Towns and Oceanside.

2006 — Touro College discussed plans to open a women’s college on part of the White Shul’s property in Far Rockaway.

2007 — I&D Glatt, a new butcher in West Hempstead, hailed by a local Realtor as “the greatest thing that’s happened to this neighborhood,” is said to “need increased community support.”

2008 — Page one reports on the terrorist attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai, India, that claimed more than 170 lives. A community-wide memorial was scheduled in the Five Towns, and a Woodmere student recounts the three Shabbatot she stayed with Chabad in Mumbai.

2009 — It’s the “season to be wary,” headlines The Star. “Home invasions, burglaries frighten in Five Towns.” Also on page 1: “Asking the right question about secular college.”

2010 — Chabad of The Five Towns opens the Levi Yitzchak Library on Central Avenue in Cedarhurst. The children’s venue was named in memory of Levi Yitzchak Wolowik, son of Rabbi Zalman and Chanie Wolowik.

2011 — A cover feature suggests that America should copy Israel’s “start up nation” approach to entrepreneurship.

2012 — Shalhevet alumni stage their first reunion in Israel.

2013 — Chabad of Hewlett’s celebration of Chanukah in Grant Park was capped by the lighting of a menorah. An ice menorah.