By Elizabeth Berney Issue of July 10, 2009 / 18 Tammuz 5769 My Op-Ed last week, “Purging Jewish History,” (In my view; July 3, 2009; see below) discussed how PLO, Fatah and Hamas … more

Two local inventors bring products to market in a recession By Michael Orbach Issue of October 16 2009/ 29 Tishrei 5770 The economy may be slow but things are picking up for two South Shore … more

Parshat Va'era by Rabbi Avi Billet Issue of January 15, 2010/ 29 Tevet 5770 How old was Moshe when he fled from Egypt in Chapter 2? Depending which Midrash you follow, he was either a … more

Issue of April 30, 2010/ 16 Iyar, 5770 By Sara Trappler Spielman Occupying a corner café on a narrow, quiet street, the newest addition to the culinary scene in the Crown Heights section of … more

Issue of August 20, 2010/ 10 Elul 5770 By The Jewish Star Staff The Max and Ruth Schwartz Torah Academy, the Jewish day school of the Chabad of Port Washington, which billed itself as a low … more

Calendar for the week of June 3, 2011 more

Editor’s note: With a double parsha this week and the calendar edging closer towards Rosh Hashana, we present a second Torah column. Rabbi Etengoff is dedicating the following dvar Torah in memory of his sister-in-law, Ruchama Rivka Sondra, and the refuah shlaimah of Yosef Shmuel ben Miriam. more

Initially overwhelmed, then inspired by a visit to the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem a few years ago, Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway eighth-grader Emily Goldstein began to think how she could incorporate the Holocaust into her bat mitzvah project. The exhibits at Yad Vashem, the world center for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust, moved Goldstein, who loves to cook, to compile a cookbook that is comprised of stories and recipes from Holocaust survivors. more

Due to their not (yet) having been translated by the Jewish publishing houses, much of the midrashic library is a treasure-trove of untouched gemstone mines. more

He couldn’t breathe; he was exhausted. He would get out of breath walking from one room to the other and would have to stop three times on the way to the mailbox at the curb and then back to the house. “Life was getting worse,” said John Defazio, aged 78. more