editorial

Jewish Star editor’s letter to The Riverdale Press

The Riverdale Press, the community newspaper in the heavily-Jewish Riverdale area of the Bronx, continues to prominently feature anti-Israel columns by a writer whose overriding long-term theme …

what you need to know

Zionism 101: Just the facts

Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel. The vast majority of Jews around the world feel a connection …

what you need to know

Antisemitism and anti-Zionism

What is antisemitism? Antisemitism is the marginalization and oppression of people who are Jewish, based on the belief in stereotypes, myths and disinformation about Jewish people, …

Reflections

9/11 reflections at unique Jerusalem service

In the forest with a breathtaking view of Jerusalem, hundreds gathered at Jewish National Fund-USA and KKL-JNF’s 9/11 Living Memorial. The memorial’s centerpiece is a sculpture of an …

Chabad

Jailed Jews understand meaning of Yom Kippur

“The One who answered Joseph in jail, He will answer us.” So reads one of several imprisonment references in Yom Kippur prayers, in line with the themes of judgment and atonement of the …

Politics

Oslo +30: Anatomy of a failure

At the White House on Sept. 13, 1993, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Palestine Liberation Organization official Mahmoud Abbas, US Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Russian Foreign …

Retaliation

Iran must heed Israel threat to ‘heart of Tehran’

The powerful warning delivered to the Iranian leadership last week by Mossad Director David Barnea cannot be ignored by the mullahs in Tehran. On Sept. 10, during a remarkable speech to the …

Health

Will Rx’s follow as Touro team tracks cell-invasion?

A study led by a team at Touro University Nevada has identified a new pathway that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) uses to enter the nucleus of a healthy cell, where it can then replicate and go …

Schools

SAR at a basketball camp in Senegal

After an intense junior year at SAR High School in Riverdale, Joseph Arenson traveled to Senegal this sumer to work for a not-for-profit basketball organization called MALAWRISE. The organization, …

Schools

CAHAL closes, ending 31-year-old special ed service in Five Towns

After 31 years of outstanding service to the local Jewish community, CAHAL, the special education program for children with learning disabilities, will not open classes for the 2023-24 school year. …

Schools

SAR at a basketball camp in Senegal

After an intense junior year at SAR High School in Riverdale, Joseph Arenson traveled to Senegal this sumer to work for a not-for-profit basketball organization called MALAWRISE. The organization, …

History

Tashlich more than Marie Kondo waterfront purge

Earlier this month, Royal Auction House in Toms River, NJ, sold an 1806 illustrated, handwritten Tashlich guide for $5,000. Last month, Appel Auction in New York offered but didn’t sell a …

History

The next war Looking ahead, 50 years after Yom Kippur

Israel will soon mark the anniversary of one of the worst traumas it has ever experienced. On Saturday, Oct. 6, 1973, shortly before 2 pm, the Egyptian and Syrian militaries launched a coordinated …

Killer

Jordan unlikely to turn over Sbarro killer Tamimi

In mid-July, 22 years after the deadly terrorist a ttack at a popular Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem, American Jewish Committee’s recently-appointed CEO Ted Deutch sent a letter to US Attorney …

Kosher Kitchen

Cornucopia of childhood harvest memories…

If you have ever had a backyard garden, then you know the joy of the late-summer, early-fall harvests. If all has gone well, your garden is now bursting with a ton of tomatoes, enough green beans to …

Kosher Bookworm

Here’s a whale of a tale on behalf of repentance

With Yom Kippur just a few days away and Sukkos next week, this week’s essay will bring to your attention several books and essays devoted to the themes of teshuvah, repentance in the Jewish …

Kosher Dining

A ‘secret’ elevator is path to kosher at Yankee Stadium

Yankee Stadium is home to the winningest franchise in baseball, a rabid fan base, and a secret elevator. Well, maybe it’s not exactly a secret, but very few people know where it is. When …

Schools

SAR renews mission: Let's be really nice!

The principal of the Salanter Akiba Riverdale High School wants his school to vibrate with a feeling of “nice.” Working to raise the profile of mitzvot ben adam l’chavero …

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