The Kulanu Fair, last Sunday in Cedarhurst’s Andrew J. Parise Park, was a delight to children of all ages, and raised funds for Kulanu, a cherished Five Towns educational institution. Pictured … more

Dr. Michael Bunzel, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak and medical director of the hospital’s newly-opened Mental Health Center, spoke … more

Two leading Modern Orthodox rabbis in the Five Towns, Hershel Billet and Kenneth Hain, have published articles expressing their support for Hillary Clinton over Donald … more

FOOD PANTRY On Rosh Chodesh Adar, the chesed committee of Shulamith Middle Division volunteered at the Rina Shkolnik Food Pantry at the JCC in Cedarhurst, delivering toiletries collected during … more

We live in a time when, as the U.S. State Department has noted, a “rising tide of anti-Semitism” is sweeping the world. In the West, it is creeping into the mainstream from the margins of … more

“Today no one talks about Israel in synagogue, because the Jewish leadership doesn’t want to approach a point of conflict,” Shoham Nicolet, CEO of the Israeli-American Council … more

It’s time to end the propaganda myth that Jerusalem is holy to Muslims. Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish nation under King David and other Jewish kings for hundreds of years. The U.S. … more

Rabbi Dr. Gilbert Klaperman zt”l, an early builder of the Five Towns Jewish community, was niftar on Tuesday. Services were set for 10 am on Wednesday morning at his shul, Congregation Beth … more

Rabbi Yaakov Bender, rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway, addressed this letter to parents in his school’s community: It has been a difficult few days. The horrific, … more

As tens of thousands of New Yorkers joined representatives of governments and organizations from around the world in Sunday’s Celebrate Israel Parade up Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, many … more