Flashback for Jan. 2

2002 — “Something’s rotten in Concordia [University in Montreal]” where the student union has banned Hillel.

2003 — “Israel politics take center stage” as Moshe Feiglin speaks at a Congregation Beth Sholom dinner.

2005 — The Jewish Star’s lead story is headlined, “Mossad: Iran Only Two Years Away From Nuclear Bomb; Alarming Reports Also From Egypt.”

2006 — A Jewish a cappel group from Binghamton University performs in Rockville Centre. HAFTR is building an online community. And from Israel: “Likud Gains; Kadima Still Far Ahead; Outcome of National Elections Still Open.”

2007 — The Young Israel of Oceanside turns 50 and celebrates with dancing and singling — and the completion of a new Sefer Torah.

2008 — Rabbi Shalom Rosner of Congregation Bais Ephraim Yitzchok (the Island Avenue Shul) told his congregants he is making aliyah.

2009 — A freak accident disrupted the Chabad of the Five Towns’ Chanukah Wonderland celebration in Woodmere. Fourteen people were injured “when a powerful SUV slammed into a room filled with more than 150 parents and children.” “I saw the blood and the tears, the twisted metal, the immobile, the wounded and the heros,” reported columnist David Seidemann .

2010 — Yeshiva University hosts a panel on “Being gay in the Orthodox world.”

2011 — “Shining a light on Iowa”: Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe, speaks at a White Shul rally for Shlolom Rubashkin.

2012 — A teacher from SAR High School presented “a whirlwind, eye-opening lecture on the Jewish originators and founders of Christianity.”

2013 — Politics columnist Jeff Dunetz on the Iowa caucus: “Why is this political night different from all other nights?”

2014 — News report: “Sensitivity training panel teaches tolerance at HALB.” From the Heart of Jerusalem columnist Rabbi Binny Freedman discusses, “The Jewish home: Key to our survival, and the world’s.”