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30th Lag B’omer celebration in Cedarhurst’s Parise Park

Last Thursday evening, Cedarhurst’s Andrew J. Parise Park was filled with joyful noise as the site celebrated its 30th annual Lag B’Omer event. “Lag B’Omer is truly a day … more

By Melissa Berman, LI Herald | 5/21/25

Nassau Herald reporter Melissa Berman displays her Jewish pride as she marches in Sunday’s Celebrate Israel Parade on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

LI Herald reporter marches with pride on 5th

Marching in the Israel Day Parade with 40,000 other Jewish people from all across Long Island, the five boroughs and beyond felt like a dream. I had the incredible opportunity to march with my … more

By Melissa Berman, LI Herald | 5/21/25

HANC — Hebrew Academy of Nassau County Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, located in West Hempstead.

Hatikvah on 5th

An estimated 40,000 people, including members of Congress and the Knesset, Israeli ministers, local public officials and former hostages and their families, lined Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue on … more

By Mike Wagenheim, JNS | 5/21/25

At the first Jewish News Syndicate Symposium, held in the Jerusalem Waldorf Astoria on April 27-28, from left: International Committee for Har HaZeitim Chairman Jeff Daube (formerly of Riverdale), ZOA LI-Queens President Dr. Paul Brody, and Maidenbaum Property Tax Reduction Group CEO Shalom Maidenbaum. During a “Remembering the Fallen” ceremony held by the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel (AACI) at the KKL Rabin Memorial Forest near Sha’ar Hagai, from left: World Zionist Organization Chairman Ya’akov HaGoel, and The Jewish Star columnist and former ZOA Chairman Dr. Alan Mazurek. AACI commemorates the sacrifice of North Americans who have given their lives in Israel’s military operations or in acts of terror, especially in the current ongoing war.

New Yorker activists at events in Israel

New Yorker activists were among those attending the Jewish News Syndicate's first International Policy Summit, … more

5/8/25

Dr. Sheldon Genack, center, has played a key role in shaping the surgery department at St. John’s, helping mentor young surgery residents like Zachary Onkeo, left, and Maria Sava.

St. John’s Hospital gala supports new maternity unit

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital’s ICARE Foundation will honor community members and hospital doctors at its second annual Blue Phoenix Gala on Thursday, June 5, while raising funds for the … more

By Brian Norman, LI Herald | 5/7/25

Hannah Austin, third from right, will represent the US at the 2025 Maccabiah Games in Israel in July.

For Long Beach girl, faith and country, with sports

The Maccabiah Games — an international, multi-sport event for Jewish and Israeli athletes of all religions — is often referred to as the “Jewish Olympics.” … more

By Brendan Carpenter, LI Herald | 5/7/25

Digital rendering of the playroom being built in Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petah Tikva by the Toys for Hospitalized Children nonprofit in memory of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas.

At LI museum, butterflies link Shoah and Oct 7

While most people today know something about the Holocaust, future generations will not have the opportunity to hear firsthand accounts from survivors. Nevertheless, we’ll need to keep the … more

By Nechama Bluth, The Jewish Star | 4/30/25

Rep. Ritchie Torres is interviewed by Larry Rosenberg, Holocaust Remembrance chair, at a Holocaust Remembrance Day event in West Hempstead on Sunday night.

Torres issues call to action to stop Jew-hate

Rep. Ritchie Torres told a Yom Hashoah commemoration in west Hempstead on Sunday night that to be successful in the fight for Israel and against antisemitism, Jews must be “politically engaged, … more

By Ed Weintrob | 4/30/25

Paul Gross, a child survivor from Hungary, accompanied by his wife and family members, lit a candle at the Greater Five Towns Community Yom Hashoah Commemoration last Wednesday.

Just one candle

The Yom Hashoah commemoration in the Five Towns was different this year. And it was a preview of what’s to come. In prior years, six Holocaust survivors would each light one candle in … more

By Ed Weintrob | 4/30/25

Rep. Grace Meng with Holocaust survivor Hanna Slome and Nick Winton at Slome’s 100th birthday celebration in Flushing. Winton’s father saved Slome and 668 other children aboard the Kindertransport in 1939.

Meng salutes a survivor centenarian

Rep. Grace Meng visited 100-year-old Shoah survivor Hanna Slome at Sloane’s home in Flushing, bringing with her a proclamation declaring Slome’s birthday “Hanna Slome Day” in … more

4/23/25