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Some of the Chesed Leadership Program alums (from left): Yitty Fisch of Kapayim, Chaya Travis of Sephardic Bikur Cholim, Allison Josephs of Jew in the City, and Leba Schwebel of the Amatz Initiative.

There were no caps and gowns and “pomp and circumstance” could not be heard in the background. What was palpable at this commencement of the Chesed Leadership Program was a heavy dose of … more

6/28/17

Brandeis talk at Touro Law

Long Island’s Touro Law Center and its Jewish Law Institute are planning a two-day national conference that will cover the path-breaking career of Justice Louis Brandeis, on the 100th … more

1/13/16

Did Maimonides introduce the world to pizza?

In 1983, Italian-Israeli professor Sandra Debenedetti Stow stunned the scholarly world with an explosive article that proposed that Jews introduced pizza to the European diet. She cited Yehuda … more

By Henry Abramson | 6/12/19

LI’s Touro Law picks first advisory board

Touro Law Center in Central Islip has formed an inaugural advisory board for its Jewish Law Institute. The board is comprised of leading judges and lawyers from New York area and across the … more

6/22/16

Shua Auerbach (pictured) organized Sunday’s Five Towns march with Lina Mavruk.

Consequences of police brutality in our history

Pray for the welfare of the state,” Rabbi Hanina writes, “for if it were not for the fear thereof, people would swallow each other alive.” As cities around the nation burn with … more

By Henry Abramson | 6/10/20

Standing behind a new marker unveiled at Friday’s ceremony, from left: Touro Law Professor Samuel Levine, director of the Jewish Law Institute; Rabbi Melvyn Lerer, who was chaplain at the Central Islip State Hospital; Elena Langan, dean of Touro Law School; and Martha Carlin, director of the Long Island Field Office of the NYS Office of Mental Health.

Touro Law honors a ‘never again’ pledge with rededication of Central Islip Hospital’s cemetery

When the first Jewish patient died on Rabbi Melvyn Lerer’s watch as chaplain at the Central Islip State Hospital in 1976, he was devastated. There was no tahara (preparation of the body for … more

By Ed Weintrob, The Jewish Star | 6/28/23

Jordan Kaplan, a credit ratings analyst at Standard and Poor’s and president of the Lander College Alumni Council, talks with Ron Ansel, Lander College for Men Director of Career Services.

Touro men eye careers

Greeting old friends and former professors with smiles, dozens of alumni of Touro’s Lander College For Men returned to the college recently to share their professional experiences with current … more

11/30/16

Trump aide Greenblatt at Touro commencement

Full of pride, hundreds of friends and family members celebrated their graduates at the 42nd Annual Commencement of Touro College. The ceremony took place on May 28, 2017, at the David Geffen Hall at … more

6/15/17

Cedarhurst talks mesh history and Torah

Dr. Henry Abramson, dean of Touro’s Lander College of Arts and Sciences, resumes his Jewish history lecture series in the Five Towns community this week. Abramson’s free … more

2/1/17

DIscussing “Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties in Israel and America,” from left, Elyakim Rubinstein, former vice president of the Israel Supreme Court; Harry Ballan, dean and professor of Law at Touro Law Center; and Benjamin Brafman of Lawrence, criminal defense attorney.

Worried about anti-Semites in Congress? Brafman’s solution: Teach our children

That the scourge of anti-Semitism remains uncured does not surprise Elyakim Rubinstein, former vice president of Israel’s Supreme Court, who said that many years ago “there was a notion … more

By Ed Weintrob | 3/13/19