While drug abuse may not be out of control in the frum community, “it is out there and rising,” an organizer of next Monday night’s Five Towns awareness-raising event told The … more

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg received the inaugural Genesis Lifetime Achievement Award in Israel on July 4. Here’s a transcript of her remarks: Isaac Bashevis Singer … more

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 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

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

An overflow crowd came out to support Yachad last week as NY Yachad held its first gala, at Congregation Beth Sholom in Lawrence. Three Yachad stalwarts were honored: •Adira Katlowitz, … more