Students from the Shulamith School for Girls and the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway were among those from several Long Island schools who attended last week’s AIPAC Policy … more

Yeshiva of South Shore Mechina students were selected to represent the school at the annual Inter-Yeshiva Science Congress. Top photo (from left): Eitan Kaplowitz, Yitzchak Losev, Coby Pollack, … more

This week marks the shloshim commemorating the passing of one of our community’s leading scholars of the Jewish literary tradition, and one of the leading Jewish book dealers in New York, … more

In 1983, when Danny Abebe was 9 years old, his Jewish family decided one Rosh Hashanah night to leave their remote village in Ethiopia — with some 700 others — due to … more

It’s not an unfamiliar frame for describing the rise of the new nationalism: There’s a bad wind blowing through the West, and nothing less than democracy is at … more

Judith and Zoltan Lefkovits survived the Holocaust and came to the United States in the late 1950s — “separately,” the couple said in unison. Their families’ harrowing … more

With the start of summer, The Jewish Star is again pleased to publish a message by Rabbi Hershel Billet of the Young Israel of Woodmere. Rabbi Billet urges congregants to exercise both physical and … more

At least three words in our parsha, Nitzavim, could be defined as a “milah manchah” — a repeated word which Nechama Leibowitz Z”L would utilize to draw out a theme in a … more

With everyone sheltering in place and spending their days at home, now is the perfect time to tackle a DIY kitchen project that you never seemed to have time for before. The end result — tangy, … more

Each year in the 1940s and ’50s, more than 15,000 Americans were paralyzed by polio and thousands died. The disease reached its peak in the United States in 1952, leaving 3,145 Americans dead … more