Kenneth Starr, the independent special prosecutor who investigated President Bill Clinton, will speak tonight (Thursday, March 26) at Touro Law Center’s Central Islip campus.
Starr’s …
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3/26/15
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Here are some important guidelines to ensure a safe and healthy chag.
Cleaning for Pseach: In an earnest effort to thoroughly clean our homes in preparation for the holiday, please stay aware of …
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By Zeev Kashash, United Hatzalah of Israel
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3/26/15
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“Big Bang” star Mayim Bialik and Tea Party-boosting Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa added their spin this week to an ongoing debate over the Democratic Party affiliations of most …
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By The Jewish Star Staff
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3/26/15
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Rabbi Sacks calls finding allies, especially among Indians, Chinese and Catholics, ‘biggest mitzvah’
Five Towns Jews were charged this week with performing a new mitzvah: Making friends for Jews.
Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks suggested that Jews should especially nurture relationships with people …
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By The Jewish Star Staff
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3/26/15
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks will be joined by attorney Benjamin Brafman this motzei Shabbat in a conversation on important contemporary topics.
Billed as an “armchair conversation,” the …
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The Jewish Star staff
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3/19/15
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After trailing in the polls leading up to Tuesday’s Israeli election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party defied those projections with a sweeping victory …
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By Jacob Kamaras, JNS.org
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3/19/15
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There is no world leader more hated by bien-pensant, liberals in America and Europe than Prime Minister Netanyahu. Whereas once the bile was directed at former U.S. president George W. Bush—for …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/19/15
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Thirty years have passed since Dani Moshitz, David (Didi) Cohen and Baruch Stern fell in Lebanon in 1985, and we came together with their families to let them know we had not forgotten. Dani and Didi …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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3/19/15
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Last month, in a breathtaking display of anti-Semitism reminiscent of Nazi Germany, members of the student government at South Africa’s Durban University of Technology (DUT) called for the …
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By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, JNS.org
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3/19/15
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There’s a strange phrase that repeats itself several times in this week’s parsha, Vayikra.
“If a person sins … and does one of the commandments of G-d that one is …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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3/19/15
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