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The Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (HALB) Elementary School sixth grade boys’ basketball team capped off an undefeated season last week with a Metropolitan Yeshiva Day School Basketball League Junior Varsity championship over Westchester Day School 46-29 at North Shore Hebrew Academy in Great Neck. more
One striking tradition that is widely observed by Jews at their Passover Seders involves the afikomen, a piece of matzah broken off near the beginning of the evening and eaten by participants “for dessert” after the meal. more
On Dec. 6, the board of directors at the newly-formed Temple Am-Echad in Lynbrook held an installation ceremony to official name Glenn M. Jacob the leader of their temple. more
On December 6, the board of directors at the newly-formed Temple Am-Echad held an installation ceremony to official name Glenn M. Jacob the leader of their temple. Refreshments were served afterward, and many congregants congratulated the new rabbi. more
In response to worries that the world is suffering from Islamophobia, a Five Towns rabbi and Far Rockaway pastor decided to invite one of Long Island's Islamic leaders to an interfaith Thanksgiving service last week to send a message of solidarity with the Muslim religion. more
Monday, Nov. 9, marked the 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht, or “The Night of Broken Glass,” which many historians consider the beginning of the Holocaust. In conjunction with that anniversary, hundreds of students from Rambam Mesivta for Boys and Shalhevet High School for Girls commemorated Kristallnacht’s significance by protesting the German government’s refusal to allow the U.S. to deport Jakiw Palij, a known Nazi war criminal whose U.S. citizenship has been revoked, back to Germany. more
A new flavor, a new energy, a new excitement: This is how people described the first observances of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur at the new South Shore Reform Congregation of Temple Am Echad in Lynbrook. more
A local rabbi and a Queens priest collected coats for the poor on the eighth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, in honor of the victims of that day’s terrorist attacks. more
After 80 years, Temple Israel of Lawrence’s religious school is relocating to Young Israel of Hewlett in the hope of attracting more families. Over the past few years, students from Hewlett, … more
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