Flashback for week of Dec. 23

2003 — In honor of Tu Beshvat, The Jewish Star’s cover art is supplied by HALB eighth-grader Aliza Kaye. “Happy Birthday Trees!”

2007 — Firefighters from 12 local departments responded to an inferno at a co-op apartment complex on Broadway in Hewlett. Among those drive from their homes: three families from the Young Israel.

2009 — The latest Gaza war is over, but its soldiers will need help. The Jewish Star presents five ways Americans can support the IDF.

2010 — The Star interviews two HAFTR kitchen employees whose relatives in Haiti died in the island nation’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

2011 — Opponents of a new eruv in the Hampton point to Lawrence to make their case and residents of Lawrence fire back.

2012 — Columnist Jeff Dunetz is displeased as “former Mayor Ed Koch folds for Obama — again.”

2013 — Anti-Islam subway ads placed by former Five Towns resident Pamela Geller create a stir.

2014 — OU Advocacy trumpets school aid in the new state budget.