Shortly after emigrating to Israel in 1901, this Telz-educated orphaned son of a rosh yeshiva earned an unlikely nickname: “the crazy fly-catcher.” Israel Aharoni’s odyssey into … more

UJA-Federation of New York is campaigning to insert into New York State’s estimated $103.4 billion budget an allocation of $2.5 million in aid for poverty-stricken Holocaust survivors.   … more

Just as Times Square is America’s hot spot on secular New Year’s eve, kosher supermarkets like Gourmet Glatt are where the action is in the run-up to Pesach. Since they started … more

Sweet gefilte fish with a dollop of eye-watering horseradish. Fluffy matzah balls floating in golden chicken soup, raisin-dotted matzah kugel, tangy stuffed cabbage, crunchy charoset, mile-high … more

It was a familiar story but with an unfamiliar conclusion. A Jewish student objected to the anti-Semitic slanders promoted by a student organization dedicated to Israel’s destruction. For … more

The last thing Gov. Andrew Cuomo needed last week was another crisis where he’s assigned the role of villain.But that’s what he got Tuesday night, when two newspapers reported his plan to … more

As vehicles pulled into the Marion & Aaron Gural JCC campus in Lawrence on Sunday, staff and volunteers helped 150 seniors, including 60 Holocaust survivors, to receive a first dose of the … more

Few hospitals were dealt as early or as severe a wallop from COVID-19 as St. John’s Episcopal, the only hospital on the Rockaway peninsula and the facility closest to the Five Towns. But … more

The 109-year-old National Council of Young Israel, which operated in recent years more as a cheerleader for right-wing politicians than as a faith-centered partner of more than 100 Young Israel … more

A comedian telling a bad joke that hurts someone’s feelings isn’t news. Or at least it didn’t use to be. But when the bad joke validates a lie that is fueling the latest … more