Right Angle By Rabbi Avi Shafran Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769 One day during my teenage years I began to think about what my father, may he be well, had been doing at my age. … more

I’m Thinking By Micah Halpern Issue of July 17, 2009 / 25 Tammuz 5769 When the Sunday Times of London reported that Israel has secured permission from Saudi Arabia to fly over Saudi … more

I'm thinking By Micah D. Halpern Issue of October 30 2009/ 12 Cheshvan 5770 Like family lore, the history of a nation is handed down from generation to generation. In families, … more

Issue of January 29, 2010/ 14 Shvat 5770 Raising cain over raise To the Editor: Outraged! That’s the only reasonable response. The FIRST vote cast by Howard Kopel, our new County … more

Issue of May 14, 2010/ 1 Sivan 5770 By Sergey Kadinsky Lilianna Zulunova, the 26-year-old Forest Hills resident who sought to be the first Bukharian Jew elected to statewide office has dropped out … more

By Elana Dure Issue of September 3, 2010/ 24 Elul 5770 At Times Square, known as the crossroads of the world, seven words flash across a 30-by-40 square foot, hi-definition digital billboard: Let … more

In a corner of its sizable Lawrence schoolyard, new play equipment beckon the students of Brandeis School, offering a connection to Israel and longtime supporters of the institution. “This shows the friendship between the families of Brandeis and the families in Israel,” said Brandeis School Rabbi Tomer Grossman. more

As our community prepares for the imminent arrival of the Yomim Tovim, The Eliezer Project (TEP) is working hard to help our clients. The Eliezer Project is a local organization that was created three years ago to help those residents of the Five Towns, Far Rockaway, and West Hempstead communities who are impacted by the economic crisis and are experiencing extreme financial crisis and job loss. more

When I was a child I dreamt that I’d marry into an immigrant family very similar to my own. My children would grow up speaking Spanglish and we’d continue the traditions I grew up with. But other than my extended family I really didn’t know many other Jewish Cubans living in Brooklyn. Little did I imagine I would later go to Israel, meet and then marry a totally different type of Jewish immigrant, one from Africa, who speaks Afrikaans and a bit of Zulu, but no Spanish at all. I continue to cook for my family some of the traditional Cuban dishes of my childhood. Our children’s Spanish, however, comes straight out of the textbooks from three years of forced high school Regents preparatory classes. Their attempts at hablando espanol can make me laugh; compared to them I sound like a real Cuban native! more

It was the height of the Intifada, and we were in the midst of a months’ worth of reserve duty....It is so easy to demonize the ‘enemy,’ but life isn’t always quite so simple. Deep in the heart of Hebron was an Israeli lookout position, meant to spot trouble on the road below and protect Israeli civilians driving through. more