RAMAT HASHARON — An Israeli soldier clapped football great and Vietnam War veteran Roger Staubach on the shoulder at a soccer field here, telling the 1963 Heisman Trophy winner and U.S. Naval …
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By Hillel Kuttler, JTA
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6/21/17
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During the 20th Maccabiah Games next month, about 7,000 Jewish athletes from 80 countries will descend upon the Holy Land to join 2,500 Israeli athletes in the Olympic-style competition.
Held …
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By Adam Abrams, JNS.org
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6/21/17
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Children from HALB’s kindergarten last week visited HALB’s Woodmere campus — Big HALB, they called it. The annual end-of-year visit enables our kindergartners to experience …
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6/21/17
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The Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls hosted its annual Sports Dinner as a way of acknowledging and thanking their energetic and enthusiastic student athletes on all eight of SKA’s sports …
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By Miriam Koslow, SKA ‘17
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6/21/17
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The excitement was palpable in the Technology Lab as Mrs. Rubel introduced Cubelets Robotics to the 4th grade boys.
Cubelets are small blocks that are snapped together to make an endless variety …
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6/21/17
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While most elementary students would build a paper mache volcano for their science fairs, fifth graders at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway were creating start-ups for an …
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By Tyler Marko, Herald Community News
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6/21/17
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The wife of a Brooklyn man on life support has asked the borough’s Supreme Court to rescind a death certificate that she said was issued in error.
NY-Presbyterian Hospital issued a death …
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By JTA
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6/21/17
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On Jan. 16, 1949, Toby Fassman married Max Cohen (Steven M. Cohen’s parents, now both of blessed memory). At 24, Toby was among the last of her circle of friends in Brooklyn to marry, and …
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By Steven Cohen, Sylvia Barack Fishman, JTA
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6/21/17
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By Alex Traiman, JNS.org
Following commemorations for the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War, when Israel’s territorial victories included taking control of Judea and Samaria, the Israeli …
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By Alex Traiman, JNS.org
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6/21/17
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The recent discovery of a previously invisible inscription on the back of an ancient pottery shard, that was on display at Jerusalem’s Israel Museum for over 50 years, has prompted Tel Aviv …
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By Adam Abrams, JNS.org
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6/21/17
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