Just before the 70th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces landed in Europe to defeat the Nazis, a class of high school students traveled from Brooklyn to Cedarhurst Town Hall to meet the village’s 90-year-old World War II veteran mayor, Andrew Parise. more

Edwin Black, a Jewish Star columnist and New York Times best-selling author, told the students and parents of Rambam Mesivta High School how the activities of some NGO’s (Non-Governmental Organizations) are undermining support for Israel. more

The fractious public reaction to the rejection of J Street’s membership by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations has been based on widespread dissemination of false information about the process, according to exclusive interviews with sources close to the Presidents Conference process. more

For the 21st year, a mid-afternoon concert and political rally in Central Park overlapped with the day-long Celebrate Israel Parade on Sunday. Musicians and dignitaries rubbed shoulders at Summerstage as crowds poured past security to enter the Rumsey Playfield near the park’s 72nd Street entrance. more

Everyone stood to honor Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski as he walked to the front of the Young Israel of Woodmere’s main sanctuary to talk about the “Pursuit of Happiness and the Retreat from Happiness,” in memory of Rebekah Ann Frucht who died on the second day of Shavuot two years ago. more

It is a conversation I will remember forever. We were in the midst of basic tank training, enjoying a brief respite from the grueling pace of maneuvers and marches. more

A large map of the New York–Long Island area linking photos of Israeli soldiers and their home communities hung on a wall of the Sephardic Temple in Woodmere. In Israel, these are the Lone Soldiers; in the Five Towns they are a source of pride. More than 500 supporters of the Israel Defense Forces came to the Long Island Chapter of Friends of the IDF at its third annual event on May 28, raising $350,000 for FIDF. more

Supporters of Israel turned out in force on Sunday, with hundreds of thousands of spectators lining Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue as an estimated 35,000 marchers, in colorful T-shirts, carrying large banners and fluttering blue and white Israeli flags, participated in the 50th Celebrate Israel Parade. more

When a newspaper long perceived to align with a particular political slant is actually transparent about that slant, does it say anything new about the paper? more