The Shabbos table is beautifully set. The candles radiate a holy glow. The young, adorable children are sitting around the table. The mother is standing silently and Kiddush is about to be made. The cup is taken in hand and sounded are the majestic words heralding Hashem’s treasure to the Jewish People by her ten year old desperately trying to recreate the family he, his siblings, and his mother had only months earlier. more

Yashar, the attorney’s and judges’ chapter of Hadassah has selected Deborah E. Kaminetzky, Esq. as its “Woman of The Year,” an award which will be presented at the Nassau Region of Hadassah Convention. more

Cedarhurst resident Leibel Zisman, 82, came to the U.S. from Poland in 1946, at age 15, having made a promise to a stranger during the Holocaust to tell the world what happened to the 6 million Jews who were slaughtered. more

Office Shevach (Shevy) Berkovits, originally of Brooklyn, was awarded a top cop honor at the Nassau County PBA gala on Tuesday. He was one of three officers who was confronted with an armed and extremely dangerous individual. This subject had committed an armed home invasion and was attempting to stab the officers with a knife. The officers reacted valiantly in stopping this life threatening attack. more

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