Popular website now forbidden The truth behind the ban By Michael Orbach For many in the Orthodox community, it seemed only a matter of time before the quasi-risqué news aggregator … more

Team USA brought home the gold from the 2010 Maccabi Australia 18-and-under basketball tournament. And the squad did it while wearing yarmulkes. For the first time, the majority of the … more

Before the plagues begin the Torah takes a brief detour to tell us the lineage of the tribes of Reuven, Shimon and Levi, in order to get to Moshe and Aharon. Now that we understand the context of our … more

Once of the greatest culinary accidents in history occurred when the Champenoos wine makers in northern France discovered that the cold weather in their region caused a delayed fermentation in wine. … more

Exhaling deeply after each breath, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe, blasted the federal judge that sentenced Sholom Rubashkin for what he called, “corrupt thinking” and a … more

In the space of one day, over 5,000 people clicked on The Jewish Star’s website to read about how the Five Towns and Far Rockaway Jewish community helped stranded El Al passengers at JFK airport. … more

Jewish music star Chaim Dovid will be performing alongside Que Swing Urbano, a Latin Dominican Merengue band, on Jan. 5 at Lawrence High School. The concert will benefit Five Towns One Community, an … more

Last week we were informed that we can no longer visit Vosizneias.com whose tag line is “The Voice of the Orthodox Jewish Community” and is a website devoted to bringing news, albeit in a … more

What better time is there to review a newly issued Pesach Haggadah than during the tumult of a raging blizzard? And what better timing than now, as we read and learn the Torah portions that deal with … more

Dear Aviva, My husband and I are Modern Orthodox and we raised our children in the same vein. Our son came back from his year in Israel this past summer and he is a different person. Aside from … more