There are no records dating back to the time of the invention of the shoe. There are just assumptions based on primitive cave paintings. But you can be sure a lot has changed since then. Today the average woman owns 19 pairs of shoes and the average man, 7. more

A program that included a Siyum HaShas, videos, Torah insights and speeches, commemorated and memorialized a brief life whose influence continues to bring joy and inspiration to children and adults in the Five Towns-Far Rockaway community and worldwide. more

In last week’s tribute to the sacrifice of Rabbi Menachem Ziemba, one of the scholars referenced was Rabbi Dr. Pesach Schindler, whose information concerning Rabbi Ziemba was crucial to my essay’s theme and purpose. In response to numerous inquiries concerning Dr. Schindler and in commemoration of the upcoming Yom Hashoah observances in our community, I am reprising several previous essays of his literary works on the Holocaust as well as works by others on this timely subject. more

So, it was the last day before the Nine Days. You know what that means: Last day to swim, do your laundry and, of course, stuff yourself silly with meat, because for the next nine days you can’t. You can eat it on Shabbat and, of course, if you make a siyum. more

Nov. 28 marks Thanksgiving Day, as well as the first day of Chanukah. It would be a natural reaction for an American Jew, when noticing that overlap during a casual reading of the calendar, to smile or even laugh. But Dana Gitell took things much further. more

Inside this week's newspaper … A Congresswoman fights a company that collaborated with the Nazis and won't say it's sorry … voters will decide if HALB gets to buy the No. 6 school … JNF talks Mideast in Hewlett … Ravs Billet and Freedman talk Torah … Alan Jay Gerber talks books … the Olympics are in the kitchen, with a chocolate twist … sneakers tie a boy to his grandpa, his heritage, and his people's army … Young Israel of Woodmere looks to local yeshivot for its sefer picks … the U.S. valued Chagall's art more than Chagall the man … time for honest talk about BDS … Malka on education … joy at DRS … school news in the back … and the biggest events calendar in the Towns … plus a whole lot more! more

This Shabbat will witness the beginning of the reading of the fourth book of the Torah, Bamidbar, sometimes translated as the Book of Numbers but never as the Book of the Desert (which is what bamidbar means). more

Jewish night in the concert series at Andrew J. Parise Park in Cedarhurst drew quite a crowd. more

Last Motzei Shabbat. a new members event at the Young Israel of Woodmere drew a “standing room only” crowd of both new and seasoned congregants. A video showed the history of the … more

This is a Shemitta year, when working and harvesting the land in Israel is strictly forbidden by Torah. At HAFTR, students have had an opportunity to focus on a universal element of the Shemitta year … more