Flashback for week of Jan. 15

2003 — HANC celebrates its 50th year with a jubilee dinner at the Crest Hollow County Club. The Jewish Star reports that the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County was the first Jewish day school on Long Island.

2005 — The activism of students at Lawrence’s Rambam Mesivta topped The Star’s front page (and won big play in citywide media): “One little school, one big difference; Rambam students help correct perceived Sri Lanka/Israel rift.” Students Zoli Honig and Justin Friedman, along with their rosh yeshiva and principal, went to the Sri Lankan consulate to present a $6,000 tsunami-relief check to Sri Lanka’s ambassador as Israel’s ambassador looked on. The effort countered reports that Sri Lanka had refused aid from Israel.

2006 — Stroke sidelines ‘Bulldozer’ Ariel Sharon, whose prognosis is bleak.

2009 — Students from DRS and Rambam Mesivta join 10,000 people at a rally for Israel near the U.N.

2010 — The OU completed a survey on Jewish marriage. “Happily ever after? Not quite.”

2012 — “Local women celebrating milestone” — Hadassah’s centennial.

2013 — “North Shore High School gives back to community.”

2014 — HALB is bidding for the No. 6 School; it’s snowy and very cold in the Five Towns; and HAFTR scores a big win as it hosts the annual Invitational Scott Satran Memorial Tournament.