Emunah of America will celebrate its 70th anniversary with great fun when it hosts an annual gala on Nov. 11 in a unique venue — the PlayStation Theater at 1515 Broadway in Times Square. As … more

The New York State 2016 legislative session has barely begun, yet the Senate has already passed a bill of major importance for the nonpublic school community: the Education Investment Incentives Act. … more

Following its rabbinic ruling prohibiting synagogues from hiring female clergy, the Orthodox Union is pressuring synagogues that have hired the women to change their titles.In February, the OU issued … more

In the wake of the devastating floods earlier last week in Libya, the Palestinian Civil Defense Service, which operates under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority, announced that it was sending … more

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Shortly after the outbreak of the Six-Day War in 1967, Ronny Naftaniel was soliciting donations on the street and putting a lot of money into a box emblazoned with the words … more

More than 2,000 people came to Citi Field on Sunday — not to root on the Mets, but to revel in Jewish learning. Thirty-eight scholars led classes on traditional and contemporary Jewish topics … more

The weirdest part of the Orthodox anti-vaccine conference was probably when the emcee, a rabbi wearing a black hat and white beard, quoted the Gospel of Luke. “Father, forgive them, for they … more

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Horodoker, writing from Tiberias in the aftermath of an epidemic in 1786, cited Proverb 22:3: “A clever … more

In a matter of moments there were literally dozens of accidents and emergencies. Cars slid into one another, mothers and children slipped and fell, and many elderly individuals suffered terrible falls and subsequent injuries. Just as quickly, our community sprang into action. more

The Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula, at its annual breakfast on Sunday, honored Long Beach native and 30-year Far Rockaway resident Richard Altabe. Altabe, 57, is principal of … more