anti-semitism
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 …
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This week in Torah
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, …