Accompanied by mechanech Rabbi Nafi Orlofsky, eight boys from the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County High School participated in the mitzvah of chesed shel emet, assisting in the funeral of a Jew who … more

The Jewish Academy, Suffolk County’s only Jewish day school, will hold its Chanukah Curriculum Celebration on the theme of “Light Over Darkness” this Friday, Dec. 23. As part of … more

Resilience, a Holocaust journal published by ninth graders at Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls, won the Colombia Scholastic Press Association’s Gold Medalist Award. Judges noted that … more

Nachum Silver — with his father, grandfathers, great grandfather and brothers — put on tefilin for the first time on 12 Kislev at Yeshiva of South Shore. … more

Sometimes we get caught up in the negative and forget how much good there is in our community. We are seven boys from HALB Middle School who just finished … more

Sometimes we get caught up in the negative and forget how much good there is in our community. We are seven boys from HALB Middle School who just finished a special program, in which we learned … more

As we all know, the second most referenced book in our sacred liturgy is the Book of Psalms, the Sefer Tehillim. And one of the finest commentaries of recent vintage is that of Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh … more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is nominating a top Jewish surrogate, David Friedman of Woodmere, to be ambassador to Israel. In a statement, Trump said that Friedman will serve from … more

SECAUCUS, NJ — At Kosherfest, the world’s largest kosher trade show, Yiddish and Hebrew is heard alongside English. Some 6,000 kosher-food insiders packed the massive hall, chatting, … more