May saw a series of tweets by MSNBC hosts displaying a lack of sensitivity about the Holocaust which some would call anti-Semitic. more

Although Philip Bach, a”h, struggled with Familial Dysautonomia (FD) from birth and only lived to the age of 27, he managed to touch the hearts and lives of many in the Five Towns and Far Rockaway community. more

SATURDAY JUNE 14 FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE SHABBAT PARTY featuring a Shabbat Oneg for children with special needs and their siblings. Program includes stories, snacks and fun. 4 to 5 pm. Chabad, 74 Maple Ave., Cedar-hurst. 516-295-2478. more

Two well-known contemporary rabbis. Two prolific authors. Two personal journeys. One Rebbe. Rabbis Joseph Telushkin and Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz have come out with new volumes on “the Rebbe,” Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, 20 years after the death of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement’s seventh and final leader. more

Many questions surrounded the future of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidism after the death of its seventh and final leader—“the Rebbe,” Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson—on June 12, 1994 (3 Tammuz, 5754). Schneerson had no children, and no successor was named. But 20 years later, Chabad is not only alive and well, but increasingly receiving the so-called highest form of flattery: imitation. more

Electoral upsets happen every so often in Nassau County. There was Republican Dan Frisa beating his party’s incumbent, David Levy, in 1994. Like Levy, Frisa became a one-term congressman after a challenger, Democrat Carolyn McCarthy, unseated him in 1996. more

A sixth grade social studies fair tied great-grandsons to great-grandparents and united four families related to the same ancestor, at Far Rockaway’s Yeshiva Darchei Torah. more

Just before the 70th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces landed in Europe to defeat the Nazis, a class of high school students traveled from Brooklyn to Cedarhurst Town Hall to meet the village’s 90-year-old World War II veteran mayor, Andrew Parise. more

Edwin Black, a Jewish Star columnist and New York Times best-selling author, told the students and parents of Rambam Mesivta High School how the activities of some NGO’s (Non-Governmental Organizations) are undermining support for Israel. more

The fractious public reaction to the rejection of J Street’s membership by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations has been based on widespread dissemination of false information about the process, according to exclusive interviews with sources close to the Presidents Conference process. more