Apr 7 Congregation Beth Sholom, Lawrence, NY 7 PM Yom Ha’shoah, annual memorial service for the six million martyrs AFSI at Iranian Embassy THIS SUNDAY, YOM HASHOAH - APRIL 7- 12 NOON - Join with AFSI and many concerned groups in a demonstration at the Iranian Embassy, 622 Third Avenue @ 40th Street. While we remember the victims of the HOLOCAUST, we must speak out against the threatened holocaust from Iran against Israel and the western world. Alert friends, family, neighbors. Everyone is needed to sound the alarm. Bring your signs, flags, banners. We need your support!!!!! more

Al Sharpton’s incitement of anger and violence in the Trayvon Martin / George Zimmerman case recalls what he did in Crown Heights. Twenty-two years ago, a tragic car accident in that Brooklyn neighborhood escalated into a pogrom against the Jewish people. The media gives it a politically correct description — violence between the area’s blacks and Jews. But the violence was not two-sided, it was an attack on the Jews by the neighborhood’s Caribbean community, fueled in part by Al Sharpton, now an MSNBC host and adviser to President Obama. more

In Kabul, Afghanistan, he exhibited courage under fire. When he came to Rambam Mesivta in Lawrence, he was teary eyed. Maj. David Chartier, commanding officer of the combat outpost Bala Hissar in Afghanistan was the keynote speaker at Rambam’s Annual Veteran’s Day Assembly. Since its inception in 1992, Rambam has paid tribute to American forces fighting abroad. more

HAFTR middle school sold out its Monday night performance of Aladdin, raising more than $3,000 for a lung and bone marrow transplant for HAFTR graduate Meredith Farrell (class of 1995). more

Leading up to the start of a new academic year in Israel, parents in the rocket-battered south are saying they do not feel safe sending their children back to school. more

Fifth Graders in Mrs. Spitalnik’s Social Studies class at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, brought American History to life … more

The Young Israel of Woodmere continued this week to encourage Five Towners to attend the upcoming AIPAC policy conference in Washington. “With the events of recent weeks unfolding in the … more

The beginning of Parshat Bechukotai paints an image of the kind of blessing we hope to receive from G-d. There are three conditions that Israelites must fulfill before they can enjoy G-d’s … more

Far Rockaway’s 2,100-student Yeshiva Darchei Torah will expand onto a nearby 25,000-square foot lot that is being donated by a neighbor. The owners of a nursing home next door to Darchei … more