Students from Rambam Mesivta rallied outside the Ukrainian Mission to the United Nations on Sunday, the eve of Yom Hashoah, to protest overt anti-Semitic attacks directed against that country’s Jewish community. more

The Five Towns turned out in a massive showing of support and remembrance at the annual community-wide Yom Hashoah memorial service for the six million martyrs, on Sunday night at Congregation Beth Sholom in Lawrence. more

The Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns will host its third annual interactive concert for individuals with autism and their families this Sunday, April 27. more

A Merrick program that helps women coping with cancer and other illnesses is mobilizing teenagers to learn traditional cooking and then bring the tasty results to families in need. more

Parshat Kedoshim begins with the charge to the children of Israel to be kedoshim, G-d is, He explains, Himself kadosh. The words kedoshim and kadosh have several possible meanings. more

The sound of the train pulling in to the Kfar Saba station filled the air on another beautiful afternoon. Hundreds of people getting on and off a second train across the platform, beneath the beautiful new glass and stone ceiling of the modern new station opened only two weeks before. more

When you look at the image of Frazier Glenn Cross, aka Glenn Miller, the shooter who cold-bloodedly murdered three Christians in a bloody eve-of-Passover spree at two Jewish community buildings in Overland Park, Kansas, what do you see? more

This Passover was marred by the anti-Semitic shooting in Overland Park, Kansas, and the distribution of leaflets in Donetsk, Ukraine, calling for Jews over age 16 to register as Jews. There is no surprise these incidents happened now, because Passover is a season for Jew hatred: Passover is blood libel season. more

By the time you’re reading this, you’re likely setting back into the chametz routine. Back in your pantries are the cereals you love, the snacks your kids missed and your regular baking ingredients. And, if you’re like me, those new products will be nestled amongst the left over unopened boxes of matzo farfel, cake meal, matzo meal, potato starch, Passover noodles, puddings, soup bases, potato chips and marshmallows — lots of bags of marshmallows. more

Chatter about President Obama’s Affordable Care Act is everywhere, as each angle of the great reform is analyzed and debated; the U.S. Supreme Court got into the act when Justice Samuel Alito asked if through laws like Obamacare the federal government might proscribe kosher or halal butchering. But few remember that in the 1930s, a small business defendant fought back against a similarly ambitious federal institution and actually managed to topple it. more