She was greeted as a hometown star, but journalist Alana Newhouse did not return to the Five Towns on Monday night bearing good news. But she said that although “everything is … more

When 23-year-old Jonathan Benhamou, a commander in the IDF’s D-9 unit, arrived via Hatzalah at the Five Towns Premier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Woodmere on June 10, community members … more

More than a century before John Goodman’s character Walter Sobchak announced in the 1998 film “The Big Lebowski” that “I don’t roll on Shabbos,” Dutch painter … more

A week before the Oct. 7 Hamas assault on Israel, veteran foreign policy expert Daniel Pipes, a former board member of the United States Institute of Peace and the president of the Middle East Forum, … more

With the school year ended and the camp season beginning, parents throughout the United States will start logging onto social media or email accounts to see photos of their children splashing in a … more

Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled by 9-0 on Tuesday that the government must draft ultra-Orthodox men into the military.  “The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that at this … more

It’s been a scorcher of a summer, so when a friend suggested a trip to the Berkshire Mountains, this Northeasterner was ready for some cooler weather. While quite a “staycation” … more

The twelve men sent by Moses to explore the land of Israel came back with a wholly misleading report. They said: We cannot go up against those people, for they are stronger than us. … The … more

When I first joined my shul — the Sydenham Highlands North Congregation in Johannesburg — back in 1986, there was a creatively designed menorah all over the shul campus —a giant … more

Imagine standing at a crossroads. We have all been there. We have all experienced moments in our life’s journey when we had to make a crucial choice and decide whether to proceed along one … more