As the annual legislative breakfast for the Jewish Community Council of Rockaway Peninsula (JCCRP) approaches, JCCRP would like to make the community aware of the important individuals who are …
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3/16/16
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On Friday, the streets will be filled with thousands of pounding feet competing in the Jerusalem Marathon. With six tracks available, this is a race for everyone.
At 7 am, the runners for the …
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By Rachel Gross
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3/16/16
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Yoney Skiba welcomes guests to the full-size Ethiopian hut in the yard of her home on Kibbutz Evron, near Nahariya, close to Israel’s northern border with Lebanon.
Skiba, who came to …
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By Judy Lash Balint
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3/16/16
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In parts of Europe, Jews have been warned that wearing anything that identifies them as Jewish means putting a target on their back. In Stockholm, Jews were asked to stay away from the …
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By Abraham H. Miller
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3/16/16
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During an August press conference in Dubuque, Iowa, Donald Trump told reporters: “I know the system better than anybody. The fact is that whether it’s Jeb, or Hillary, or any of ’em …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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3/16/16
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Seeing Yad Hashem in our everyday lives was the theme of a unique Yom Iyun held at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls on Tuesday, March 1. As SKA Head of School Helen Spirn noted in her …
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3/16/16
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An Israeli researcher has discovered a new method that can stop uncontrolled bleeding of victims suffering from deep wounds caused by stabbings, such as the knife attacks that have been rampant …
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3/16/16
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This week, when I was teaching a class of continuing education students, we touched on some of the people I have encountered throughout my career. My wife and I owned Kossar’s, a well-known …
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By Juda Engelmayer
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3/16/16
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A milestone at the North Shore Hebrew Academy (NSHA) Middle School, in Great Neck, will be reached when 19 students, both Ashkenazic and Sephardic, chant Megillat Esther for their schoolmates, …
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3/16/16
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When Craig Smulevitz arrived at his Oxford Road home in Cedarhurst after a double shift as a paramedic and a Mount Sinai Hospital patient-transfer center employee in the early evening on March 7, he …
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By Vanessa Parker
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3/16/16
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