With public safety as the number one priority of government, Commissioner Dale stood alongside County Executive Ed Mangano at a press conference on Monday January 30, as the County Executive outlined his police reorganization plan. more

Israeli news has reported a tragic fire in Rehovot claiming the lives of six members of the Shaer family, Guy Shaer (38) and his children Eliav (11), Eviatar (8), Amitai (7), Shira (3) and Itamar (one year old). The wife and mother, Avivit, was the family’s sole survivor. more

The hollow sound of the ball hitting the DecoTurf at the United States Open Tennis Championships in Queens echoes loudly in the tense silence of the packed stadium as the players serve, volley and race after the ball. At the edge of the court, a seemingly staunch island of calm, stony faced, stands the ball person, but he is coiled and ready to run and grab an errant ball, hand a towel to a sweaty player, or toss another ball to be served. more

This past Tuesday, January 1st, 2013 we celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. This coming Shabbat and for the next month ahead, we will be reading and learning from Shemot, the Book of Exodus, the story of our slavery in Egypt and the subsequent liberation and the giving of the Ten Commandments. more

On the last night of the cruise to Alaska my wife and I enjoyed last week, we stayed in and watched the movie Spiderman that was playing on my cabin TV. Watching the movie, it occurred to me that Spiderman’s boss, Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson, is a perfect example of what I always imagined a manager to be when I was growing up: a gruff, cigar chomping, get the job done without caring whose feelings were hurt, type of guy. more

After Chava Willig Levy exits the main sanctuary of Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, with congregants wishing her a “good Shabbos,” she is on her way, often accompanied home by one or two young women who push her wheelchair and stay to visit and assist. That Chava, a survivor of childhood polio who is a lecturer, writer and editor, is defined by more than her disability, is made clear in her just-published memoir, “A Life Not With Standing.” more

In his Yizkor sermon on Yom Kippur 1963 (“Body and Soul”), Rabbi Norman Lamm introduced a fascinating idea in the name of Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Amiel. Before Avraham, humans were referred to as basar (literally “humans” or “flesh”) — “Man shall leave his father and mother, and cling to his wife so they may become one basar (human/flesh).” “And all the basar (humans) died [in the flood].” more

During the war in Iraq, when I was still living in London and coordinating news coverage of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein for various international media organizations, I was in regular contact with a brave Iraqi Kurdish journalist named Ayub Nuri. more

Ranging from multiple-vehicle accidents to pedestrians being hit to a driving-while-intoxicated arrest, 15 motor vehicle incidents were reported in Cedarhurst and Lawrence between Oct. 28 and … more

Adar is a time of simcha, and in the Middle Division of Shulamith School for Girls, the students have been celebrating the month with a series of fun-filled activities. To begin, the G.O. planned … more