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Back to school guide 2011: local news briefs
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Edited by Sergey Kadinsky
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8/18/11
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The Jewish Star proudly presents its Back to School guide for 2011. Below is a selection of Nassau County day schools which submitted information to this newspaper.
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Compiled by Anna Hardcastle and Sergey Kadinsky
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8/18/11
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When an American teenager turns 18, he is able to put on a basketball uniform and play on a varsity team. When an Israeli teenager turns 18 years old, he is handed a gun and an IDF uniform and sent to go fight for his country.
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By Brigitte Fixler
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8/10/11
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Calendar for the week of Aug. 5, 2011
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By The Jewish Star staff
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8/4/11
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Calendar for the week of July 29, 2011
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By The Jewish Star staff
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7/27/11
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The JCC of the Greater Five Towns is making history this week, competing for the first time in the JCC Maccabi Games, taking place in Israel this week. A team of 11 teenage girls will play basketball. “This is the first time that the Five Towns JCC is in the JCC Maccabiah. It’s a wonderful opportunity to be there and we are proud to send them to the games,” said executive director Rina Shkolnik.
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By Sergey Kadinsky
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7/21/11
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When a local philanthropist speaks, there’s usually a personal connection to the cause. For Lawrence attorney Phil Rosen, it was a trip to northern Israel with his daughter last year, where they kept encountering Hebrew speakers with American accents. At a coffee shop outside Tzfat, they met a young Californian olah in uniform, and asked to hear her story.
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By Sergey Kadinsky
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7/13/11
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Calendar for the week of July 15, 2011
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By The Jewish Star staff
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7/13/11
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The Chabad of Oceanside has a home and it opens immediately. Purchased on June 30, the 17,000-square-foot building will serve a variety of programs for the 11-year-old Chabad outpost.
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By Alex Costello
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7/13/11
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On Monday afternoon, eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky left his Borough Park summer camp for a three-block walk to his mother. He disappeared into the streetscape and thousands of Jews mobilized to search for the boy. The massive search brought together the Shomrim, Chaveirim, Hatzolah, NYPD and FBI, and some 3,000 additional volunteers from as far as Lakewood, to find Kletzky, even as thousands more prayed for his safety. The search ended with a gruesome find of body parts stuffed into a trash container in Park Slope on early Wednesday morning.
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