A “Beware of Jews” sign was found affixed to a light post in a London neighborhood.
The triangular-shaped sign with a red border that mimics an official road sign indicating a hazard, …
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By JTA
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3/15/17
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It is three weeks till Pesach, the feast of our liberation, and it all started with Yosef. And it is the biblical story of Yosef that is at the center of a unique musical production of that title in …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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3/15/17
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On Sunday, 18 students at the North Shore Hebrew Academy Middle School, in Great Neck, will chant Megillat Esther for their schoolmates, faculty and families, in a special Purim Day assembly.
Over …
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3/10/17
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Perhaps it can truthfully be said that there is no other portion of the Bible, outside of the Chumash itself, which has greater use and influence among our people than the Book of Psalms, the …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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3/10/17
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For one Cincinnati native who has relocated to Long Island, the upcoming Purim holiday and the fall High Holiday season trump Chanukah as perfect opportunities for gift-giving.
David Frankel, now …
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3/8/17
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Raizi Chechik will be leaving her post as principal of HALB’s Stella K. Abraham High School in Hewlett Bay Park to become Head of School at the Manhattan Day School, the Upper West Side …
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3/8/17
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President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint meeting of Congress is getting rave reviews for the subdued, "presidential" style of his delivery, and positive feedback …
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Analysis by Ron Kampeas, JTA
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3/1/17
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Growing up in a small town in Georgia, Harriet Shirley may have had more exposure to Jews and anti-Semitism than the rest of her fellow Christians. She had Jewish acquaintances, read Holocaust …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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3/1/17
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s familiarity with the roads around Southeast Queens and the Five Towns might have helped him understand why State Senator Todd Kaminsky kept bringing up repairing the Nassau …
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By Jeffrey Bessen
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3/1/17
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The weeks-long wave of bomb threats targeting Jewish Community Centers in several states reached Long Island on Monday, with a threat being phoned in to the Mid-Island Y JCC in Plainview. As was the …
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Combined Sources
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3/1/17
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