Flashback for Nov 20 2014

2002 — Vendors at an Israeli fair tell why they’ve come.

2003 — Rambam students, on the march again, mark the anniversary of Kristallnacht with a rally in front of the Queens home of a former SS guard.

2006 — The president of the Lawrence district school board, Dr. Asher Mansdorf, reports receiving anonymous death threats mailed to his home and office.

Chanting “No SS in the U.S.,” 500 students from Machon Hatorah’s HAFTR division picketed Germany’s mission to the United Nations, then 200 students from the Rambam’s division of Machon HaTorah rallied outside the home of a Nazi war criminal in Jackson Heights.

2007 — A couple of headlines from page 1: “Orthodox Jewish community sweings an election — No, not here” and “Catching autism early is catching on.”

2009 — Orthodox Union President Stephen Savitsky was among with 15 Jewish leaders to meet President Obama at the White House. He recounted this encounter, at a talk in Kehilas Bais Yehuda Tzvi in Cedarhurst.

The lead story tells how worn books, including seforim, can be restored instead of discarded.  

2010 — A red swastika is superimposed on a graphic image of shattered glass along with the headline, “Kristallnacht still cuts deep.” 

2011 — A program at the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County teaches Torah to developmentally disabled children.

A Catholic priest who is a shoah expert speaks at the Young Israel of Woodmere and signs his book, “Holocaust by Bullets.”

2012 — Columnist Jeff Dunetz tells “How the GOP should regroup from its election defeat.”

2013 — Two Five Towners who were there, recall Kindertransport.