Dr. Henry Cohen of Woodmere will become Dean of the Touro College of Pharmacy next Jan. 1, Touro President Dr. Alan Kadish announced. Cohen, who will serve Touro in a consultant capacity until … more

Gabriel Shore, a senior at the Hebrew Academy of Five Towns and Rockaway, will be presented with the Chesed Leadership Award at the American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center Heart of … more

Students at Rambam returned to school from chag ha Succos to learn that the mesivta was named a Blue Ribbon school by the U.S. Department of Education. Rambam qualified as an “Exemplary … more

It has been an exciting start to the new school year. For the first time, the high school of HAFTR (the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway) had a Big Read program, with freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors — along with many faculty members — all reading the novel “Exodus” by Leon Uris. more

A new program at the Lower School of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway is teaching fourth and fifth graders to go beyond not being a bully. The “Upstander” program asks HAFTR students to be an “Upstander — someone who, unlike a bystander, stands up to bullying,” said the school’s psychologist, Dr. Jennifer Yedlin, who developed the program. more

HANC’s senior class convened its first Senior Leadership Summit on Sept. 18. The day began with a scavenger hunt at Roosevelt Field Mall. The class was split into teams and went around the … more

Touro College’s School of Health Sciences presented 422 degrees at a commencement ceremony on Sept. 10 on Long Island, at the Tilles Performing Arts Center in Brookville.  The … more

Rabbi Nachum Nachumson, a second grade rebbi at Far Rockaway’s Yeshiva Darchei Torah, gives a hands-on lesson to his students about the Four Species a few days before the Sukkos holiday. more

CAHAL held an Evening of Inspiration in North Woodmere drew nearly 100 men and women last Sunday to the home of Rina and Jeffrey Ganeles.  CAHAL’s Executive Director Shimmie Ehrenreich … more

HAFTR Middle School students were joined by 30 students from the Lawrence Middle School on Monday to hear about the Names Not Numbers Project. The project was conceived by Tova Fish Rosenberg, … more