Kathleen Rice, Nassau County’s top prosecutor, bested Kevan Abrahams, the highest-ranking Democrat in the County Legislature, in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for the 4th Congressional District seat being vacated by retiring Rep. Carolyn McCarthy. In the Republican primary, Bruce Blakeman, a former presiding officer of the County Legislature and a Port Authority of NY and NJ commissioner, defeated Frank Scaturro, a New Hyde Park attorney and former Republican staffer for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. more

The Young Israel of Woodmere is hosting a wide-ranging educational conference this Sunday, June 29, bringing together 36 rabbis, teachers, and psychologists from across the Orthodox spectrum from the U.S. and Israel. more

Dassi Billet Jacobson begins: It is hard to believe what we've lived through this past week since the kidnapping of Gilad Shaar, Naftali Fraenkel, and Eyal Yifrach a few minutes from our home in pastoral Gush Etzion last Thursday night. more

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem on Tuesday with Middle East Quartet representative Tony Blair. At the start of the meeting, Netanyahu said, “The brutal abduction of three Israeli teenagers shows the true face of Hamas.” more

THURSDAY JUNE 19 LUNCH & LEARN with Rabbi Shalom Ax- elrod of YI Woodmere. Traditions Restaurant, 302 Central Ave., Lawrence. 12:30-1:30 pm. $12 lunch. Alan Stern 516-398-3094. more

I don’t often ask my husband Jerry to shop for me. When I go shopping, I buy items that we actually need. Jerry, on the other hand, buys whatever is on sale, whether we need it or not. more

By Dmitriy Shapiro, JNS.org Washington Jewish Week She may not be flashy, a firebrand speechmaker, or even very well known outside of her Queens congressional district, but despite her brief … more

Valedictorian Miriam Shana Friedman of Cedarhurst plans to study Chemical Engineering at Princeton University. more