Three alumni from the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach were awarded top honors at Sunday’s Yeshiva University graduation. Elana Schreier-Glatt of Woodmere (SKA 2011) amd Yechiel Auman (DRS … more

Nearly 700 ninth and 10th grade students from 25 area schools who are enrolled in the CIJE-Tech High School Engineering program participated in their Young Engineers conference at the Hebrew Academy … more

HAFTR Director of Educational Technology Benjamin Gross was been named a 2015 Young Pioneer by the Jewish Education Project. Gross and his department utilize technology to help assist and support … more

Rabbi Oppen is Principal of Judaic Studies at HAFTR HS and Rabbinic Associate at Congregation Beth Sholom Just as we prepare our cheesecake, blintzes and meals for Shavuot, we must be mindful to … more

In Parshat Emor, the Torah tells us, “You shall then count for yourselves seven complete weeks after the day following the [Passover] holiday when you brought the omer as a wave … more

It was the first time, as an officer, that I came under fire. Well, sort of. We were stationed on the edge of the Bekaa valley, in Lebanon, and intelligence had information that terrorists might try … more

Last week the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Corker-Menendez Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act. The bill may turn out to be nothing more than window dressing, with Congress not … more

Judy’s off one more week (mazel tov on her son’s wedding!), so we’re running a version of a favorite pre-Shavuot column. Seems like yesterday that I wrote about the chocolate … more

Another Palestinian teenager was shot to death last weekend. You didn’t hear about the latest killing? Maybe that’s because she was shot by Palestinians, not by Israelis. That kind of … more

HAFTR High School hosted a 3-on-3 basketball tournament to raise money for the Koby Mandell Foundation and Camp Koby on Yom Yerushalayim. Max Rosner, a HAFTR junior, a counselor at Camp Koby last … more