After honing their Israel advocacy skills at last week’s AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, students from a number of New York area day schools spent Wednesday on Capitol Hill lobbying … more

The first day of school is always an adventure — a joyous one, it would appear, for freshmen at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls in Hewlett Bay Park.The ninth graders, who met at two … more

Pray for the welfare of the state,” Rabbi Hanina writes, “for if it were not for the fear thereof, people would swallow each other alive.” As cities around the nation burn with … more

Two incidents of swastikas found in the Woodmere Middle School boys’ bathroom on March 14 and 16 prompted the school to bring a visitor to speak to the sixth- and seventh-graders last week in … more

Issue of Nov. 28, 2008 / 1 Kislev 5769 Rambam Mesivta hosted the Nassau County Men's Communal Israel Night Program on Nov. 17. It was attended by close to 450 students and parents from … more

The artwork of two students in HAFTR High School’s Art Institute program will be displayed in the 24th Annual Legislative Student Art Exhibition in Albany later this month. more

Four Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway HS students were awarded medals for outstanding research at the final round of the Long Island Math Fair on May 2, 2014 at Hofstra University. more

Rabbi Eliezer Sheinwald, rosh yeshiva of Modiin’s Hesder program, visited Rambam Mesivta in Lawrence on Oct. 28. Rabbi Sheinwald is working with Magen David Adom to start a paramedic’s … more

Five Towners rooted for a hometown hero last Thursday, as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held its confirmation hearing for ambassador to Israel-designee David Friedman, a Woodsburgh resident. … more

When the first Jewish patient died on Rabbi Melvyn Lerer’s watch as chaplain at the Central Islip State Hospital in 1976, he was devastated. There was no tahara (preparation of the body for … more