Israeli Immigrant Absorption Minister Zeev Elkin, who accompanied Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a trip to Berlin on Monday, was scheduled to meet with German interior minister Thomas … more

My passion for speaking Spanish, watching Flamenco, drinking Rioja, admiring artwork, walking a labyrinth of narrow streets, and inhaling the scent of orange blossoms intensifies on every visit to … more

Voters in the Five Towns, Long Beach and surrounding South Shore communities will elect a new state senator on April 19 and in doing so may determine if Republicans continue their tenuous grip on the … more

Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky promised this week that on his first day in office he would put forward legislation to ban outside income for Albany representatives. Standing in front of the former … more

Eighth grade girls from various incoming schools took part in the annual “Day in the Life at HANC High School” last Thursday, providing our applicants with the unique opportunity to see … more

Students of Shulamith School for Girls had the time of their lives last week, as they engaged in some serious hands-on learning!  Under the guidance of Steven Frankel, of Hamidrasha … more

There were pink banners, pink posters, pink streamers and a sea of pink-wearing students on Pink Day, last Wednesday at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls. To show their support for … more

How do we prepare kids for jobs that don’t exist yet?  This is the question the Education Technology team at Hebrew Academy of Five Towns and Rockaway has been puzzling through for … more

President Obama last Thursday signed into law the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (H.R. 644). As is often the case, the White House issued a signing statement along with the … more

It would be churlish to deny the remarkable achievement of Senator Bernie Sanders in decisively winning the New Hampshire primary.  For months, Sanders was depicted as an eccentric whose … more