A number of Jewish organizations will gather today (Monday, June 16 )  at 12:30 pm outside of the Israeli Consulate, at 42nd Street and Second Avenue for a prayer service and vigil for … more

They were a small group of pioneers with a mission. The year was 1940, and Jews by the tens of thousands were being herded into the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Europe. And while the Nazi hierarchy was meeting to determine the “final solution to the Jewish problem,” this small group was preparing the groundwork for what they believed would be the influx of refugees who would need a home and a place to call their own. more

First Grade students at HAFTR Lower School celebrated the end of their unit of study on Opinion Writing. Throughout the study, students learned how to express their opinions by supporting their feelings with details. Students had strong feelings about characters, food and school. more

The Fifth Grade State Project at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, culminated in a wonderful State Fair! Fifth Graders were very excited to display their research papers which included information about their state’s economy, natural resources, government and tourist sites, along with other materials representing their state. more

More than 45 Rambam talmidim learn Torah at least an extra two and a half hours each week after school and during lunch to be part of the Rambam Mesivta Masmidim Program … however, the reality is that while that is the minimum requirement, most of the talmidim learn even more. more

Last Sunday’s Achiezer Tribute Dinner gave over 1,000 people from all neighborhoods of the Far Rockaway/Bayswater and Five Towns community a chance to set aside shul affiliation, yarmulka type and personal interests, to join in support of one undisputed cohesive agent: chesed. more

A few weeks ago, while driving my husband Jerry to the Valley Stream Station (after he managed to saunter and putter around, thereby missing the Woodmere train), I found myself stuck at a light at the intersection of Mill Road and Sunrise Highway. more

History has a unique way of both intruding on and inspiring current events. The recent trip to Israel by Pope Francis and his visit to the gravesite of Theodore Herzl is but one recent example of this phenomenon. more

Towards the end of Shlach, the Torah gives us instructions for a case of what Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan entitles, “Communal Sin Offerings for Idolatry,” based no doubt on Rashi’s explanation of the phrase, “When [the collective] you err and don’t do all of these commandments.” more

The school of thought that describes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as “the Middle East conflict” is dangerously misguided, because it ignores other factors that are far more important, such as the historically violent schism between Sunni and Shi’a Islam, Iran’s renewed assertiveness in Syria and Lebanon, the shared strategic interests binding Israel and the conservative regimes in the Arab Gulf in confronting Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and the fragmentation of the various jihadi groups in Sinai, Syria, Iraq, and other territories. more