Kulanu Academy students joined the cause to raise awareness of those who have lost their lives due to anaphylaxis, a severe whole-body allergic reaction to a chemical that has become an allergen, by participating in the 1st Annual Worldwide “Love Remembers Day.” more

There wasn’t an empty seat in Margaret Tietz’s main dining room as providers and caregivers of individuals with dementia gathered for an eye-opening symposium by experts in the field. more

The new Mt. Sinai Five Towns Medical Group, a multispecialty practice and urgent care center in the old Verizon building at 436 Broadway in Hewlett, celebrated its opening with a ceremony that included the affixing of a mezuzah to the building’s entrance doorway by Dr. Peter Tesler. more

Israel is a country that has spent more than six decades weaving the two formerly disparate basic branches of the Jewish family, Sephardim and Ashkenazim, into one people. These days, nary an eyebrow is raised as they hang out, date, and marry in the Jewish state, and most of their cultural differences have nearly evaporated. more

Students from Jewish Academy, Suffolk’s only Jewish day school, visited Touro Law school on Tuesday to participate in a mock trial exercise with law students. more

The Young Israel of Woodmere pulsed with pre-Pesach activity on Sunday, as scribes checked the kashrut of tefillin and mezuzzot, vendors collected sheimot or sheimos (worn out Hebrew books and papers that must buried in a cemetery) and tested for sha’atnez (the forbidden mixture of wool and linen in one garment) and food drives involving both chametz and Passover items were underway. more

A personal trainer at a gym saw the posted flier offering CPR classes and called Malky Tropper, EMT and CPR instructor and asked to learn. The woman took the class and Tropper got a call from her eight months later. “I was in Williamsburg,” said the non-Jewish woman excitedly, “and I saw a Jewish boy with the long curls choking on a hard candy. He fell unconscious and I saved the boy by doing what you taught me! I beat the Jewish ambulance!” she exulted. more

The last few days we’ve all been rushing around; I’m sure I speak for everyone, those who will stay home and those who will be away. I was actually very surprised to see the amount of Pesach food and options in all the stores. It seemed odd, as I thought my family was the only one staying home. more

Jewish Star Editor Malka Eisenberg’s front page story on the Kindertransport captured the imagination of judges and won First Place for Best Feature Story in a competition among members of the New York State Press Association. Results were announced at the group’s convention in Saratoga Springs. more

Pesach always brings back images of blood — blood as a sign on the doorpost, that is. The Shakh, in his commentary on Parshat Bo, claims the blood that was placed on the doorposts was a combination of the blood of the lamb and blood gathered in a major circumcision festival that was necessary to allow people to partake of the Korban Pesach (Paschal lamb). more