Flyers were left on the doorsteps of homes in Rockville Centre and Oceanside last week, filled with vile hate claiming . . .
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7/28/22
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The East Meadow Beth-El Jewish Center on Prospect Avenue in East Meadow completed a project Feb. 3 that not many others have taken on — an almost 40-year, word-by-word, verse-by-verse study of …
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By Mallory Wilson
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2/10/22
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How is my son, Jason, like a McDonald’s quarter-pounder?
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10/28/21
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Race and racism are in the news and on our minds. In response, many thoughtful commentaries have referred to W.E.B. Du Bois and James Baldwin, both of whom, in their day, wrote about the “Negro problem.”
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By Robert A. Scott
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10/21/21
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Roughly 100 people marched from North Bellmore to East Meadow last Sunday to celebrate the consolidation of the closed Temple Beth-El of Bellmore and the East Meadow Jewish Center. The 2.6 miles were …
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By Laura Lane
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9/2/21
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The Kiwanis Club of East Meadow held a food drive on the weekend outside of the ShopRite in Uniondale. Seven truckloads of non-perishable food and 54 gift cards, were collected for local pantries with monetary donations amounting to $545.
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By Jennifer Corr
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3/16/21
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Villa Formia Pizzeria sends a weekly donation of pizza pies to local hospitals to support front-line workers treating Covid-19 patients.
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By Nicole Alcindor
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4/16/20
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I suppose “God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world,” as the poet Robert Browning wrote, because Rosh Hashana fell on a perfect day this year. Some years, the Jewish New Year begins while beach chairs still sit on the sand. Other years, frost is on the pumpkin.
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10/4/19
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Right here in my corner of the universe, a feel-good, do-good project has been sending children back to school every year for the past seven years, with new books and backpacks, sneakers and clothes and even toiletries — and it’s all free.
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8/9/19
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I have read enough Holocaust literature and American slavery narratives and stories of the infamous poor houses of the 18th and 19th centuries to wonder what I would do if I were a witness to the abuse and persecution of innocent people.
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7/6/19
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