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Fair Nassau mobilizes to fight rising tide of anti-Semitism
The Nassau County executive convened a 27-member committee on Tuesday tasked with finding ways to combat the growing scourge of Jew hatred that’s not spared Long Island …
anti-semitism
Shabbos eve attack: Rabbi pummeled in Crown Heights enroute to Great Neck Synagogue
A rabbinic intern at the Great Neck Synagogue was hospitalized after he was violently attacked in an apparent anti-Semitic assault last Friday in Crown Heights. Rabbi Yehoshua Lefkowitz, 32, was …
schools
SKA cheers Yom Ha’atzmaut
Blue and white were the colors of choice at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls in Hewlett Bay Park on May 5, Yom Ha’atzmaut. At a schoolwide Tefillah Chagigit in the morning, Dr. Mila …
schools
CAHAL class at YOSS visits NCPD
Riva Ratner’s second and third grade CAHAL class at the Yeshiva of South Shore visited the Nassau County Police Department last week. They learned all about police safety, the bomb squad, …
opinion
Harvard’s long marriage with anti-Semitism
Harvard made headlines when it set up a $100 million endowment fund to research and redress its “extensive entanglements with slavery.” While Harvard’s role …
anti-semitism
70 Harvard faculty protest Crimson editorial
Since The Harvard Crimson’s endorsement of the anti-Israel BDS movement (reported in last week’s Jewish Star), more than 70 prominent members of Harvard’s faculty …
schools
Plainview’s Mercaz adds a general studies leader
The new Mercaz Academy in Plainview has announced the appointment of. Karen Leeper as assistant principal for general studies. She will work collaboratively with Rabbi …
opinion
Jew-hating SJP demonizes our students
In his Israel Apartheid Week address at Duke University a few weeks ago, radical Palestinian poet Mohammed el-Kurd advocated “Palestinian liberation,” telling his cheering …
on campus
Harvard Crimson editorial: 'In support of BDS and a Free Palestine'
Eight US presidents emerged from Harvard University. The following editorial emerged last week from its student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. (See columnist Richard L. Cravatts’ response to …
schools
SKA color war
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This week in Torah
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‘Introvert’ Shabbat among ‘extrovert’ festivals
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‘Emor’… softly, with purity and reasonability
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Learning is what links the moadim and Torah
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Live decent, moral life to sanctify the Name
In recent years we have often felt plagued by reports of Israeli and Jewish leaders whose immoral actions had been exposed. A president guilty of sexual abuse. A prime minister indicted on …
Jonathan Tobin
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Defend living Jews while honoring the 6 million
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Our world without Israel? Chas v’sholem!
It was in 1896 that Theodor Herzl published his groundbreaking book, The Jewish State, which launched the modern Zionist movement. Though his project was, as he noted in his book, “very …
Ben Cohen
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Can the UN really survive the war in Ukraine?
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The missing apology that Russia won’t make
Did Russian President Vladimir Putin really apologize to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for the atrocious remarks on the Holocaust uttered by his Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov? There …
More Opinion
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At end of the day, whose Temple Mount is it?
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Will a Memorial Day survive in US and Israel?
The United States will commemorate Memorial Day on May 30, a holiday established in 1868 to mourn members of the armed forces who died in the Civil War. My wife, remembering her father, a World …
Food
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Home, and some simple food, for the holiday
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Kitchen memories of both my mom and dad
As I write this on the evening of Mother’s Day, I think about my own mother who, to be honest, was not a very good cook. She had absolutely no interest in cooking or baking. She was a …
Travel
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10 archeological finds, discovered by accident
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Chagall Windows mark 60 years in Jerusalem
When Marc Chagall debuted a series of biblically inspired stained-glass windows at the Louvre in Paris and then at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 1961 …
Caroline Glick
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There’s no one to talk to now in Washington
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Twitter, Supremes and progressive revolution
America is in the throes of a revolution. As historian Victor Davis Hanson has noted, progressives now control nearly every national institution — Wall Street, Silicon Valley, universities, …