From last week’s essay about Lashon Harah, evil speech, this week we will deal with Lashon Hakodesh, sacred speech, only this time the speech we are dealing with concerns the history of a whole … more

A key to surviving an active shooter event is “situational awareness,” a security consultant told about 150 Five Towners on Sunday morning. The speaker, retired NYPD Detective Chris … more

The Five Towns will consider something of a worse-case scenario on Sunday, when a Cedarhurst shul hosts a community meeting on “surviving an active shooter event.” The forum, open to … more

For those of us who love football there is Draft Day, Kickoff Weekend to Super Bowl Sunday, and, unfortunately, Black Monday, the day after the regular season ends, when a dozen teams prepare for the … more

In the children’s section of Macy’s lived a purple sweatshirt named Sweta. While her friends got picked one by one, she stayed on the shelf for a long time, folded and unable to … more

Long Beach Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky was seleted by Nassau County Democrats on Tuesday night as the party’s choice to succeed convicted state Senator Dean Skelos. Gov. Cuomo is expected to … more

Long Island’s first baby of 2016 is a Jewish boy who was born at the precise moment that his hospital’s network ended its identificaiton with both Jewish and Long Island. Daniella and … more

Last week, the Rosh Yeshiva of Netiv Aryeh in Jerusalem, Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl, shelita, published an inspiring essay titled, “The Servitude in Egypt as a Result of Lashon Hara,” Which … more

With most people getting a day off work for secular New Year’s day on Friday, Far Rockaway’s White Shul is silver-plating an opportunity to put some of that time to good use. A Yom … more

There’s a gentleman’s agreement in politics that kids are off-limits. As vicious as the political discourse can sometimes get and as hard as politicians and would-be politicians go after … more