Over 125 guests converged on the West Hempstead home of Alan and Sharon Shulman on the evening of June 27 for a BBQ and Israeli wine tasting in support of the One Israel Fund. The event was graced … more

Five Towners flocked twice to MCU Park in Coney Island, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones, to support local causes. On Sunday, 50 members of Kulanu witnessed the return to the mound of Mets’ … more

Rabbi Avi Shafran, public information director of Agudath Israel of America, writes a weekly column for Hamodia, which declined to publish this submission. He posted it at RabbiAviShafran.com and it … more

The 3 to 4 year olds of the Yellow Room at Gan Chamesh joined a rainbow of other Chabad of the Five Towns pre-schoolers, celebrating their graduation with a parade on Maple Avenue in Cedarhurst. more

The Jewish Star apolgizes for two errors in captions last week in stories about the Orthodox Union. The OU official on page 1 was Vice President Allen Fagin (pictured at right in this photo from … more

North Woodmere resident Bernard Igielski fulfilled a lifelong dream by meeting a relative of Dr. Berthold Epstein, the man who saved his life four times in Auschwitz. More than 70 people gathered … more

The Touro College Graduate School of Social Work honored the Class of 2018 last week with an awards celebration at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y. “Welcome to the profession!” said … more

Five hundred people and 25 speakers considered chinuch from a variety of Orthodox perspectives, at the annual Five Towns Community Collaborative Conference, last Sunday at the Young Israel of … more

In a rare move, three major voices of Orthodox Judaism in America have expressed common cause with more liberal Jewish organizations on a hot-button issue in the United States: the separation of … more

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — In 2015, a jihadist gunned down a Jewish guard outside the city’s main synagogue, where Hannah Bentow was having her bat mitzvah party. Bentow and dozens of … more