As vehicles pulled into the Marion & Aaron Gural JCC campus in Lawrence on Sunday, staff and volunteers helped 150 seniors, including 60 Holocaust survivors, to receive a first dose of the … more

Past the edge of Orthodoxy? Hurwitz will retain 'rabba' title for now; others to be called 'mahara"t' By Michael Orbach Issue of March 5, 2010/ 20 Adar 5770 Update: The following is an … more

The Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula honored four individuals and a business on Sunday during its annual Legislative Breakfast at the White Shul. The JCCRP … more

Which Orthodox rabbi gave Jared and Ivanka permission to fly on Shabbat? We don’t know who it was, but we know who it wasn’t. It wasn’t Haskel Lookstein, who oversaw the first … more

For many Jewish communities in the United States, this was the week when synagogues were abandoned. In an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus, many houses of worship were empty and … more

Issue of Oct. 31, 2008 / 2 Cheshvan 5769 Kristallnacht Commemorations - Sunday, Nov. 2 Cedarhurst - The Beis Midrash of Cedarhurst (the shtibel) and Rabbi Dovid Spiegel will host a … more

The Orthodox Union has issued an unprecedented statement announcing the establishment of a far-reaching policy regarding women and leadership positions in synagogue life.  Citing extensive … more

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin, the chief executive of what was then the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the country, who was convicted of bank fraud and money … more

On the occasion of the Jewish state’s 70th anniversary, the Israeli embassy in Washington, in partnership with the Jewish News Syndicate, celebrates 70 of the greatest American contributors to … more

Robert Lappin was in Palm Beach when he found out that his charity was broke and his money was gone. It was the same small, moneyed Florida town where he would see Bernie … more