The sound of the train pulling in to the Kfar Saba station filled the air on another beautiful afternoon. Hundreds of people getting on and off a second train across the platform, beneath the beautiful new glass and stone ceiling of the modern new station opened only two weeks before. more

When you look at the image of Frazier Glenn Cross, aka Glenn Miller, the shooter who cold-bloodedly murdered three Christians in a bloody eve-of-Passover spree at two Jewish community buildings in Overland Park, Kansas, what do you see? more

This Passover was marred by the anti-Semitic shooting in Overland Park, Kansas, and the distribution of leaflets in Donetsk, Ukraine, calling for Jews over age 16 to register as Jews. There is no surprise these incidents happened now, because Passover is a season for Jew hatred: Passover is blood libel season. more

By the time you’re reading this, you’re likely setting back into the chametz routine. Back in your pantries are the cereals you love, the snacks your kids missed and your regular baking ingredients. And, if you’re like me, those new products will be nestled amongst the left over unopened boxes of matzo farfel, cake meal, matzo meal, potato starch, Passover noodles, puddings, soup bases, potato chips and marshmallows — lots of bags of marshmallows. more

Chatter about President Obama’s Affordable Care Act is everywhere, as each angle of the great reform is analyzed and debated; the U.S. Supreme Court got into the act when Justice Samuel Alito asked if through laws like Obamacare the federal government might proscribe kosher or halal butchering. But few remember that in the 1930s, a small business defendant fought back against a similarly ambitious federal institution and actually managed to topple it. more

More than 100 shofar-carrying protestors are expected to assemble on April 29 in front of the 59th Street headquarters of the UJA-Federation of NY. On cue, they will raise their curved rams’ horns and wail to the heavens in visceral unison. They are protesting their communal leadership. more

As Pesach preparations came to completion, Five Towns homeowners had one less worry: what to do with the last remnants of chametz garbage generated in the last push of cleaning up before chametz prohibitions set in. Sanitary District 1, covering all of the Five Towns, was out in force providing special pickups throughout the area. more

Some are asking whether the open tent, so precious to all, can survive if burning flames are brought inside. more

First grade students in Mrs. Nancy Greenberg’s class at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School in West Hempstead have been learning about sequencing and the language of sequencing, including words like first, then, next and finally. more

The adorable Lev Chana preschoolers sitting on the floor in the auditorium of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls had a wonderful time with the SKA Sophomores on Monday, April 7. more