Members of the Five Towns Orthodox community, several hundred of whom attended a discussion on drug abuse on July 16, will participate in a Narcan training session on Monday, Aug. 13, from 7:30 to 9 …
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The Jewish Star
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8/8/18
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BAKU, Azerbaijan — A year after Bella Regimov’s two children left their native country for Israel, along with many of her friends and relatives, she began feeling isolated. In …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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8/22/18
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Five Towners flocked twice to MCU Park in Coney Island, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones, to support local causes.
On Sunday, 50 members of Kulanu witnessed the return to the mound of Mets’ …
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7/11/18
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North Woodmere resident Bernard Igielski fulfilled a lifelong dream by meeting a relative of Dr. Berthold Epstein, the man who saved his life four times in Auschwitz.
More than 70 people gathered …
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By Jeffrey Bessen and Dena Gershkovich Nassau Herald
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6/28/18
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It was a giant party with a message: Long Island stands with Israel as the Jewish state celebrates its 69th birthday.
Make that it’s REbirthday.
Dani Dayon, Israel’s counsel general …
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By Ed Weintrob
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5/10/17
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Literally within seconds of the news of the arrest in Israel of an Israeli-American teenager for the bulk of the JCC bomb threats, Twitter lit up with Jewish anxiety …
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Analysis by Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
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3/30/17
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WASHINGTON—The White House said on Monday, following the arrest last week of an Israeli-American teen on suspicion of making over 100 bomb threats against U.S. Jewish sites, that President …
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By JTA
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3/30/17
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The “fear itself” thing? FDR was on to something.
The rash of JCC bomb threats and cemetery desecrations, combined with a general sense that the country is becoming more intolerant, …
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Commentary by Andrew Silow-Caroll, JTA
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3/10/17
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Growing up in a small town in Georgia, Harriet Shirley may have had more exposure to Jews and anti-Semitism than the rest of her fellow Christians. She had Jewish acquaintances, read Holocaust …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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3/1/17
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The weeks-long wave of bomb threats targeting Jewish Community Centers in several states reached Long Island on Monday, with a threat being phoned in to the Mid-Island Y JCC in Plainview. As was the …
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Combined Sources
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3/1/17
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