The international Shabbat Project is homeward bound. Determined to carry on despite the COVID-19 pandemic, it will substitute thousands … more

Plagued by charges some of its administrators embrace Jew- and Israel-haters, the City University of New York — the nation’s largest urban university — says it is fixing the … more

The Hebrew Academy of Long Beach celebrated its 60th Annual Dinner, on its DRS campus in Woodmere on motzei Shabbos on March 7. HALB honored Sharon and Jeffrey Frieling, presented a dedication in … more

Officials of 12 Five Towns and Far Rockaway area yeshivot met last week to share best practices and explore avenues of cooperation. The effort was organized by Rabbi Dovid Kramer of Yeshiva of the … more

Entire DRS and Rambam student bodies participate By Michael Orbach Issue of Jan. 16, 2009 / 20 Teves 5769 A crowd of over ten thousand people — including virtually the entire student … more

Consistent with the new year, HAFTR Middle School ran a pre-Rosh Hashana food drive to help out the local JCC food pantry. more

i-Shine In last week’s front page article about the Nassau Herald’s “people of the year” award, The Jewish Star neglected to properly identify Deena Intrator as one of the three founders of i-Shine along with Annette Kaufman and Stacy Zrihen. more

Rambam students raised over $600 in a student-run dodgeball tournament to benefit Camp Koby, an organization that provides meaninful summer experiences to children who lost relatives in terrorist … more

Five years out of college with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Drexel University, Rachel Levinson (pictured), was forging a career path in the world of marketing. She moved to Israel, … more

Opposition to vaccination on political and religious grounds has been swaying parents across the country to refuse immunizations for their children. Recently this has resulted in two of the largest … more