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Partly Cloudy BAD NEWS: Rabbi Dr. Glatt says renewed COVID-19 crisis threatens Nassau County
Thursday, July 2
I am very sad to report we have seen an uptick in cases. Nassau County was down to 25 cases a day; that has since doubled. The Five Towns has new cases, related to travel into …
justice
It’s a Supreme win: Ruling says Jewish schools can’t be ignored
For Orthodox Jewish advocacy groups, the last day of the US Supreme Court’s 2020 session brought a big win. On Tuesday, the high court handed school voucher proponents a victory in ruling …
2020
Engel’s loss doesn’t doom pro-Israel Democrats
Longtime pro-Israel Rep. Eliot Engel’s defeat last week by Jamaal Bowman, a progressive who’s been critical of the Jewish state, doesn’t signal a Zionist wipeout. Engel’s …
leadership
Woodmere’s Fagin retires from the Orthodox Union
After two decades as a volunteer for the Orthodox Union and the past six years as the organization’s executive vice president, Woodmere resident Allen Fagin is retiring from a job for the …
coronavirus
The fiddle goes silent
The coronavirus pandemic has done something that no war, natural disaster or other calamity has been able to do for more than 50 years: It’s put a stop to stage performances of “Fiddler …
coronavirus
Corona delivers debilitating loneliness in FSU
Tamara Boronina, an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor living in Ukraine, can barely afford her small Odessa apartment on her monthly pension of $65. She is a widow whose only daughter died in 1999. …
shoah
German RR memorial
Nearly 80 years after the last train sent Jews to almost certain death from the main railway station in Wurzburg, a memorial to those who perished was dedicated in the German …
opinion
Annexation (sovereignty expansion) isn’t apartheid
In this era of radical liberal hypersensitivity, where every slightly conservative position is considered a “personal offense” and automatically labeled “racism,” it is no …
food
Staycation summer with delicious distancing
Believe it or not, summer has arrived, and with it, the staples of the season. This year will be one to remember — if not for the excitement and many activities, at least for quality time …
schools
Here are HAFTR’s val and sal
Valedictorian Jeffrey Wolberg (left) exemplifies HAFTR High School’s culture of scholarship, Torah, leadership, and community service, excelling in academics while fully engaged in …
schools
MTA honors its highest grads
Valedictorian Nesanel Dietz (left) of Highland Park, NJ, feels grateful to everyone who has supported and helped him. Nesanel loved his high school experience, during which he made close friends and …
opinion
Labour fires Jew-haters, the Times hires them
It turns out the New York Times has lower standards when it comes to those who spread anti-Semitic canards than even Britain’s Labour Party. Tweeting an anti-Semitic blood libel about …
israel
Frum woman works to mend Israeli-Diaspora ties
JERUSALEM — Omer Yankelevich is the new minister of Diaspora affairs in Israel, charged with managing the Jewish state’s relations with Jewish communities abroad. It has never been an …
summertime
Israelis break their routine, to travel in Israel
Israelis love family, they love the beach, they love parties and they love Bamba snacks. But most of all, Israelis love to travel. They can be found traveling all around the world — in Europe …
jewish america
In St. Louis, statue of anti-Semitic namesake
On top of a hill in front of an art museum in the biggest park in St. Louis stands a statue of an anti-Semite. It’s a monument to the city’s namesake, the medieval French king Louis IX, …
torah
The hidden meaning of the Bilam story
Many questions have rightly been asked about the story of Balak and Bilam and the would-be curses that turned into blessings. Was Bilam a true man of G-d, or was he a fraud, a magician, a …
schools
Shulamith Middle School drive-thru graduation
Shulamith Middle Division’s Class of 2020 cheered its graduates in an unconventional yet fun and exciting Wishes and Waves pre-graduation drive-thru celebration on June 2. A drive-in graduation …
schools
2 top graduates are selected at the HANC HS
The Hebrew Academy of Nassau County menahel, Rabbi Shlomo Adelman, announced as the high school’s valedictorian and salutatorian two students who “embody the core values of our …
leadership
OU’s Fagin weighs pandemic’s Orthodox impact
Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit the New York region in March, the Orthodox community was on edge. A surge in anti-Semitic incidents targeting visibly Orthodox Jews climaxed with an attack …
This week in Torah
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The broad wall, 17 Tammuz and a time to play
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In the same manner a man speaks to his friend
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The hidden meaning of the Bilam story
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Bilam, Dostoevsky: Brilliance brimming with hate
Frustration. Disillusionment. But also insight and a lifelong intellectual perspective. That is how I would describe the experience I am about to share with you. It started with Fyodor …
Kosher Bookworm
Reconsidering ‘Faith after The Holocaust’
This week’s column is in tribute to one of our people’s greatest thinkers, Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Berkovits (1908-1992), who is widely ranked among the important Jewish philosophers of the …
Ben Cohen
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The trap of ‘original sin’: Democratic roots in Israel and US deliver redemption
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Donald Trump and the Western alliance
President Donald Trump’s plan to significantly reduce the number of American troops stationed in Germany has been causing ripples even among Republican lawmakers, who are — and not …
Melanie Phillips
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Echoes in the culture war against the West
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Don’t identify Jews with ‘white imperialism’
The experiencexq of being an immigrant group and living as a minority in an often hostile culture is, of course, one that Diaspora Jews know only too well. There are obviously huge …