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

More than 100 shofar-carrying protestors are expected to assemble on April 29 in front of the 59th Street headquarters of the UJA-Federation of NY. On cue, they will raise their curved rams’ horns and wail to the heavens in visceral unison. They are protesting their communal leadership. more

As Pesach preparations came to completion, Five Towns homeowners had one less worry: what to do with the last remnants of chametz garbage generated in the last push of cleaning up before chametz prohibitions set in. Sanitary District 1, covering all of the Five Towns, was out in force providing special pickups throughout the area. more

Some are asking whether the open tent, so precious to all, can survive if burning flames are brought inside. more

First grade students in Mrs. Nancy Greenberg’s class at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School in West Hempstead have been learning about sequencing and the language of sequencing, including words like first, then, next and finally. more

The adorable Lev Chana preschoolers sitting on the floor in the auditorium of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls had a wonderful time with the SKA Sophomores on Monday, April 7. more

Adar Sheni was truly a month filled with simcha here in Shulamith Middle Division. more

Students at Mesivta Ateres Yaakov in Lawrence raised money and bought a rescue boat for the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department. more

West Hempstead resident Raquel Bodner ran in the Jerusalem Matathon as a member of Team AMIT, helping to raise more than $16,000 for the children of AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled. more

A select group of students from the North Shore Hebrew Academy HS (NSHAHS) journeyed to Israel last month to run in the Jerusalem Marathon in support of Shalva, an Israeli organization that focuses on helping individuals with special needs. more