In the Middle Ages, Jews were accused of poisoning wells and starting plagues, including the Black Death. In New York’s present-day Rockland County, and across state lines in New Jersey, the … more

British author Adam Jacot de Boinod spent five years researching over 700 dictionaries of different languages, culminating in a book titled, “The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary … more

Political heavyweights and prominent journalists discussed key issues affecting Israel and the Jewish people at the opening plenary of the American Jewish Committee’s second … more

The United Nations was supposed to convene a meeting with Jewish leaders and global antisemitism envoys next week in Cordoba, Spain to unveil its plan to combat antisemitism. It has … more

From school to school, joy seemed to push away last week’s smoky air as commencements were celebrated. For graduates of Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls in Hewlett … more

Congregation Anshei Chesed of Hewlett celebrated its 50th anniversary on Sunday, honoring the same couple it feted … more

Former President Donald Trump’s granddaughter celebrated her bat mitzvah over the weekend, her mother announced on Tuesday. Arabella Rose Kushner, the eldest child of Ivanka Trump and … more

Just a few hours before former President Donald Trump was arraigned in Miami on Tuesday, former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, a resident of Long Island’s Five Towns area, took to … more

One of the most powerful addresses I ever heard was given by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, on this week’s parsha, Sh’lach: the story of the spies. For me, it … more

Rasha Abdel Latif, a director at Partners Global who joined the Amnesty USA board last year, has written or shared posts on Twitter dignifying the murder of Jewish-Israeli civilians, praising … more