On Sunday, 18 students at the North Shore Hebrew Academy Middle School, in Great Neck, will chant Megillat Esther for their schoolmates, faculty and families, in a special Purim Day assembly. Over … more

Perhaps it can truthfully be said that there is no other portion of the Bible, outside of the Chumash itself, which has greater use and influence among our people than the Book of Psalms, the … more

For one Cincinnati native who has relocated to Long Island, the upcoming Purim holiday and the fall High Holiday season trump Chanukah as perfect opportunities for gift-giving. David Frankel, now … more

Raizi Chechik will be leaving her post as principal of HALB’s Stella K. Abraham High School in Hewlett Bay Park to become Head of School at the Manhattan Day School, the Upper West Side … more

President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint meeting of Congress is getting rave reviews for the subdued, "presidential" style of his delivery, and positive feedback … more

Growing up in a small town in Georgia, Harriet Shirley may have had more exposure to Jews and anti-Semitism than the rest of her fellow Christians. She had Jewish acquaintances, read Holocaust … more

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s familiarity with the roads around Southeast Queens and the Five Towns might have helped him understand why State Senator Todd Kaminsky kept bringing up repairing the Nassau … more

The weeks-long wave of bomb threats targeting Jewish Community Centers in several states reached Long Island on Monday, with a threat being phoned in to the Mid-Island Y JCC in Plainview. As was the … more

In his magnum opus “A Lethal Obsession,” the late Robert Wistrich, one of Israel’s finest scholars of the murderous pathways of Jew-hatred, elegantly summarized the character of … more

Republican Jews have President Donald Trump to thank for their party’s renewed dominance of Washington politics. So what do they think of him? Marlyn Appelbaum paused to … more