Team USA brought home the gold from the 2010 Maccabi Australia 18-and-under basketball tournament. And the squad did it while wearing yarmulkes. For the first time, the majority of the … more

Ask Yaakov Hawk, a sophomore at the Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys, about problems and he’ll give you some: local students are unable to fill their required school chesed … more

Issue of July 30, 2010/ 19 Av, 5770 By Michael Orbach Over 6-feet-tall and rail-thin, Mark Kimmel-Weingarten towered over the rest of the campers and counselors in the Kulanu summer … more

HAFTR students make a museum By Sergey Kadinsky Third graders at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) are in a museum, quite literally. As part of the Generations to … more

More than $60,000 raised to cover costs By Jewish Star Staff June 4, 2010 / 22 Sivan 5770 A young mother in North Woodmere who was diagnosed with leukemia gave birth to a baby boy on Sunday … more

by Michael Orbach Issue of May 28, 2010/ 15 Sivan 5770 By Michael Orbach An unprecedented effort is under way in the Five Towns, in Riverdale, N.Y., and in Brookline, Mass., to find bone … more

By Sergey Kadinsky Issue of May 28, 2010/ 15 Sivan 5770 In front of the flagship Apple store on 59th Street in Manhattan, the day of the Salute to Israel parade, an elderly Bronx resident … more

Issue of May 7, 2010/ 23 Iyar, 5770 Kulanu honored its founding families Sunday at a breakfast at its Central Ave. headquarters, the Kulanu Center for Special Services in Cedarhurst. Nearly 10 … more

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By Jewish Star Staff Issue of April 8, 2010/ 24 Nissan 5770 Nearly 50,000 Americans — and more than 150,000 students from around the world — have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships since … more