Fourth Graders at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, had a special treat when Hoyt Farm came to HANC! Students learned about the Native Americans who lived on Long Island and how they created and used tools found in nature in order to live. more

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the expulsion of thousands of Jews from Turkish-ruled Palestine to Egypt, in a dramatic reversal of the historic exodus from the Land of the Pharaohs to the Land of Israel. But from that tragic episode in 1914 would emerge a Jewish fighting force that would help liberate the Holy Land from the Turks. more

Last week I was blessed with my seventh step grandchild. My husband Jerry’s son Yoni and Yoni’s beautiful wife Esther welcomed their third child, a baby boy. They made aliyah to Efrat … more

Simcha photographers: Imagine the stories they could tell. The anxiety, sentimentality, tears, glamor, beauty, playfulness, excitement, poignancy — all should be found in a wedding album. … more

Goldie Steinberg, a longtime Long Beach resident who gained fame as the sixth-oldest person in the world — and the oldest living Jewish person in the world — died … more

Here are the stories featured on The Jewish Stars school pages this week more

As part of the Adopt-A-Survivor project, eighth graders at Yeshiva Darchei Torah met, interviewed and absorbed the life stories of a group of Holocaust survivors, including the great-grandparents of … more

The smoke billowing from a burning bus. The sirens of the first responders. The smell of explosives. All of those came back to haunt Jerusalem on Monday when a bomb detonated on Egged Bus 12 as it … more

This week we’ve begun The Three Weeks — or ben ha-metzarim (literally, “between the narrow places).” On most Shabbatot, the Torah narrative that is read in synagogue is … more

A Jewish ambassador to Israel who is more sympathetic to Israel than to the Palestinians, and who will respect the wishes of the Israeli public and government? Shocking! I’m not being … more