STAR FLASHBACK — This week's headlines, 2002 to 2013

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2002 — An election’s in the air! The Jewish Star leads with “Pataki targets Jewish vote; A whirwind day of heavy campaigning on Long Island’s South Shore,” picturing the governor in Cedarhurst Park (signing into law the Workplace Religious Freedom Bill) and on hand at the grand opening of Brach’s Supermarket in Lawrence.

2003 — Expanding on a front page story headlined, “Anti-Semitism rears its head in Oceanside; Police investigating two separate crimes,” the Star’s editorial finds there’s plenty of hate to go around—it’s global, not just local. The editorial reported that at an Asian summit, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad reflected that “the Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million, but today the Jews rule the world by proxy: They get others to fight and die for them.”

2004 — A Five Towns presidential debate tackled the big question: “Is it good for the Jews?”

2006 — Combat between the Vaad Hakashrus and Gourmet Glatt owner Mark Bolender was reaching a climax, as the Cederhurst supermarket hired a second kosher supervisor, further irriating the Vaad which had already told Bolender he should sell the business —which he ultimately did.

2007 — “New girls’ HS plans debut next Sept.; Midreshet Shalhevet to be third part of Machon HaTorah.”

2008 — The Jewish Star endorses John McCain for president, in a front page editorial. McCain is “considerably better equipped to react to threats to national security, if for no other reason than because he is more likely to actually see them.”

2009 — Amid a raging debate over President Obama’s health care proposals, a headline teases, “What G-d really said about health care reform.” The article covers a talk in which Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt concluded that “there is no halachic obligation to provide every citizen with equal universal healthcare but there is also no halachic prohibition to provide every citizen with equal universal healthcare.”

2010 — The Star devoted its cover to coverage of the death of Steven Mayer, “Lost but not forgotten.”

2011 — “How goodly are your tents,” asks the Star, with a front page photo of a sukkah created by Lawrence resident David Stein using Coca Cola crates. A second photo features a trampoline sukkah.

2012 — Students from DRS, SKA and Rambam Mesivta met Gilad Shalit during his 10-day visit to the United States.

2013 — “Where fogotten Jews lie buried, Touro consecrates sacred ground” adjacent to its Central Islip campus, on the site of a former psychiatric hospital.