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The Jewish Star’s Kosher Kibitzer presents “a risotto that raises questions” and asks, in relation to Sen. Joe Lieberman, “Can a Jew be the next … more

12/23/14

Pictured following a special farewell Shabbos (from left): Rabbi Yisroel Meir Stern, Rabbi Yitzchak Klein, Zalman Krasnow, Ari Krasnow (obscured), Moishe Krasnow, Yehoshua Rosenberg, Shlomo Krasnow, Chaim Ozer Bender, HaRav Yaakov Bender, Rabbi Yisroel Siff (obscured) HaRav Shimshon Katz, Rabbi Avrohom Bender, Rabbi Avrohom Shlomo Katz, Sruly Dov, Rabbi Moshe Bender.

Far Rockaway will miss Rav Katz

HaRav Shimshon Katz is leaving the Shomrei Shabbos Shul in Far Rockaway after nearly 33 years. Rabbi Katz remains the Puppa rosh yeshiva in Williamsburg. more

3/9/16

Or Gat (right) told the Young Israel of North Riverdale on Sunday night about his family’s Oct. 7 trauma. His mother Kinneret was murdered. His sister Carmel Gat (left) and sister-in-law Yarden Roman Gat (center) are being held captive in Gaza.

Out of the horrors of Be’eri Kibbutz: Death, escape, captivity, determination

Or Gat was celebrating the engagement of friends while his family was sleeping in the early morning of Oct. 7 in the Be’eri Kibbutz in Israel near the Gaza border. The first reports he … more

By Gary Larkin, Editor, The Riverdale Press | 11/1/23

Friendship Circle volunteers Mindi Gelbtuch, Meira Flaum and Alana Eisner manned the photo booth during a celebration on May 28.

Cedarhurst Friendship Circle cheers its volunteers

The Friendship Circle, a local organization that pairs members of the Five Towns community with children with special needs, held an event at the Jean Fischman Chabad Center to honor and award volunteers on May 28. more

7/2/14

Ambassador Danny Ayalon (left) and Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky, menahel of DRS.

Ayalon visits 5 Towns, urges support for Israel…

Former Israel Ambassador Danny Ayalon told Five Towners over the weekend that they must step up their defense of Israel. “The challenges are political warfare,” he said. “We won the military and economic wars.” more

By Malka Eisenberg | 3/26/14

YI Woodmere helping deliver for Thanksgiving

Young Israel of Woodmere partnered with UJA to host a Families helping Families event on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, Sixty-five families packed food packages. The goal was for young children … more

12/1/22

Fascist demonstrators marched through Charlottesville, Va., on Friday night, Aug. 11.

Young Israel of Woodmere rabbis join RCA rejection of moral equivalency

The Young of Israel of Woodmere’s five rabbis signed a statement “unequivocally denouncing” the Charlottesville, Virginia, terror attack. In a message sent to members of the the … more

By The Jewish Star | 8/23/17

Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt was one of four panel members discussing freezing eggs.

Yoatzot halacha and rabbis join docs at women’s health-halacha event

Close to a 100 women heard health professionals, rabbanim and yoatzot halacha (Jewish legal advisers), discuss the overlap and symbiosis between issues of women’s health and halacha (Jewish law), in a day-long seminar at the Young Israel of Woodmere. more

By Malka Eisenberg | 3/26/14

Rabbi Dr. Gilbert Klaperman accepted a lifetime achievement award at HAFTR’s 2012 gala.

Beth Shalom’s Rabbi Klaperman zt"l, 96

Rabbi Dr. Gilbert Klaperman zt”l, an early builder of the Five Towns Jewish community, was niftar on Tuesday. Services were set for 10 am on Wednesday morning at his shul, Congregation Beth … more

By Jeff Bessen | 2/14/18

PRAYING FOR ISRAEL: White Shul's Rabbi Feiner calls half-day fast on Thursday

We are, as always, together with them in tefilla and tears, bi'lev vi'nefesh, during this "eis tzara li'Yisroel," and must do our part from a distance to beseech HaKB"H for a full-fledged yeshua bi'karov, a quick end to the missile bombardment and the current crisis in the holiest of all lands, Artzeinu Ha'Kedosha. more

7/8/14