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2020
Jews fill top spots in the Biden team
Joe Biden filled the months before Inauguration Day lining up a slate of Cabinet secretaries, assistants and advisers, many of them Jewish. Biden’s choices reflect a diverse cross-section of …
2020
Washington’s key words of Torah
If we are looking for a passage that best speaks to the current American moment — a shaken American polity and still threatening pandemic — look no further than George Washington’s …
2020
Newspaper’s celebratory insurgency cover raises the heat in Five Towns; a senior MO rabbi is threatened
A lengthy, threatening note slipped into a package of Five Towns Jewish Times newspapers was left on the doorstep of Rabbi Kenneth Hain’s Lawrence home last Friday. It called Rabbi Hain a kapo …
five towns
A message from the editor–publisher of The Jewish Star
Let’s all take a deep breath. Those of us who are not addicted to …
2020
Blinken vows: Israel in loop on Iran deal
Several nominees for President Joe Biden’s national security team said on Tuesday that the United States isn’t yet ready to rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint …
2020
Israel thanks Friedman, Trump’s man in Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bid farewell to outgoing US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman during the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday. A replacement for Friedman, a Five Towns …
loss
Pro-Israel groups mourn Sheldon Adelson’s loss
Jewish and pro-Israel groups expressed condolences over the loss of Sheldon Adelson, perhaps the most prolific individual donor to a wide range of Jewish and Israeli causes, who died on Jan. 11 at …
loss
Adelson rests on Mount of Olives
Dr. Miriam Adelson arrives at her husband’s funeral in the Mount of Olives overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem on Jan. 15. “Here I am, Sheldon, adrift in endless pain, sustained with …
viewpoint
‘Your suffering is our pleasure’: The primeval anti-Zionist glee over Sheldon Adelson’s death
When the former Conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died in 2013, there were some on the left who regarded her passing as a moment for celebration. Social-media channels filled …
health
Mt. Sinai South Nassau docs offer vaccine updates
Though it could take many months for the Covid-19 vaccine to reach the majority of people, a number of physicians remain …
loss
West Hempstead loses Rabbi Kelemer, who built its frum community
Rabbi Yehuda Kelemer, who for 38 years has been the spiritual leader of the Young Israel of West Hempstead, was niftar on erev Shabbat, Jan. 8, at age 74. “He made us all feel better …
loss
Lovers of Zion mourn a true champion, Sheldon Adelson
It is with unbearable pain that I announce the death of my husband, Sheldon, of complications from a long illness. Sheldon was the love of my life. He was my partner in romance, philanthropy, …
loss
Bibi recalls Sheldon as a ‘huge Jewish patriot’
I feel deep sorrow at the passing of a wonderful friend, and wonderful person, the late Sheldon Adelson. With a broken heart, in the name of my wife, Sara, on my own behalf and in the name of many …
special report
Eyeing the sources of anti-Jewish hate in US
As the repercussions of the deadly Jan. 6 mob invasion of the US Capitol continue to reverberate across the country and beyond, like most Americans, many in the Jewish community looked on with shock …
retrospective
Opinion: American Orthodoxy’s political suicide
The great writer Aaron Sorkin wrote: “Decisions are made by those who show up.” Sadly, if there’s anything the American Orthodox community has done over this past year, it has …
Israel
Pollards stroll in Jerusalem
Our photographer spotted Jonathan and Esther Pollard as they strolled holding hands on Agripas St. in Jerusalem, near the Machane Yehuda shuk. …
This week in Torah
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Moving forward through a door of forgiveness
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Linking Ya’akov Avinu and the exile in Egypt
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Achieving Am Israel’s oneness as a people
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The horse thief wasn’t the worse man in town
They called him a horse thief. That was the worst possible epithet that one could hurl at a young man in the early 19th century shtetl of Czernovitz. Back then, a horse was a very necessary item, …
Kosher Bookworm
‘End of Genesis’: A contrast in commentary styles
With the conclusion of the Torah reading cycle of Bereishis, this week’s essay will be devoted to a presentation of several contrasting styles of commentary. The first commentary is …
Caroline Glick
Too early to count Israel’s left among the dead
Over the past several weeks, Israel’s political commentators have repeatedly declared the demise of the political left. On the face of things, they are correct. The polls all show that the …
Jonathan Tobin
Can Palestinians adjust to changing times?
They’ll always have the United Nations. Even as the rest of the world abandons their cause, the Palestinians can still count on the world body to be their faithful ally in their century-old …
Ben Cohen
A tale of 2 trials: Justice served and denied
As 2020 reached its end, so did two of the most important courtroom trials involving violent anti-Semitism to have occurred since the Second World War. In France, 14 suspects in the January …
Politics to Go by Jeff Dunetz
Star columnist writes: If you support Israel and oppose anti-Semitism, you must vote for Trump
Anyone who follows the news or investigates the candidates should know there is only one choice for pro-Jewish or pro-Israel voters: a vote to re-elect President Donald Trump. Joe Biden and …