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HAFTR High School students held yahrzeit candles to light the way in the darkened hallways before the Holocaust Remembrance Day assembly.

HAFTR High School creates historical Holocaust memories through ‘Lasting Legacies’

The hallways at Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School were darkened on the morning of April 28. The only light emanated from yahrzeit candles held by students as they stood outside classrooms. At 9:20 a.m., a siren sounded — as sirens had sounded earlier that day in Israel. more

By Jeff Bessen | 5/5/22

The Gural JCC food pantry has had many successful food drives thanks to the work of its many volunteers. Above, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Community Food Drive on MLK Day this year.

Gural JCC helped Five Towns community through the Covid-19 pandemic

Despite the obstacles that came with the coronavirus pandemic, the Marion & Aaron Gural JCC has continued to serve Five Towns and Far Rockaway residents thanks to its dedicated volunteers. more

By Lisa Margaria | 5/5/22

From the staging area to the vehicles lined up for the food orders, the SKA campus was a beehive of activity last Sunday.

South Shore Nassau volunteers help fill the need for Passover meals

More than 50 volunteers filled over 375 alphabetized food orders and placed them in a makeshift staging area in the parking of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls campus in Hewlett Bay Park last Sunday. more

By Jeff Bessen | 4/14/22

The Five Towns Community Center hosted Inwood Unity Day last summer. Above, the Pizza Dance Band — from left, Amelio Morelli, Nino Gugliemo and Tony Modica — performed at the fair.

Five Towns Community Center is a beacon of hope

Inwood resident Pat Jones was 13 the first time she walked into what was called “the mansion” behind the soccer field on the Five Towns Community Center campus in Lawrence. more

By Jeff Bessen | 3/10/22

HAFTR Middle School’s robotics teams dominated the competition at the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education Robotics Tournament in December. From left were students Jack Ymar, Akiva Cunningham, Zachary Straus, Aiden Dworetsjy and Joe Walls.

HAFTR robotics builds life skills and self-esteem

rom a Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School senior who wants to major in engineering in college to a HAFTR Middle School seventh-grader who built his own computer, the robotics program at both levels attracts students who are curious and motivated. more

By Jeff Bessen | 2/10/22

HAFTR Middle School students and Rabbi Chaim Siff raised money for Chai Lifeline. In front, from left, were Judah Rauchwerger, Jacob Hersko and Yosef Haimoff. In back, from left, were Zachary Sternberg, Meir Zrihen, Siff, Jonah Gober and Mordechai Werzberger.

Five Towns helps to raise $150,000 for Chai Lifeline

A Cedarhurst family has joined forces with their community to form Team Jacob, in support of Jacob Hersko, a sixth-grader at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway Middle School who has short bowel syndrome, a severe digestive disorder. Team members plan to raise money by running in the Miami Marathon on Feb. 6. more

By Lisa Margaria | 1/27/22

Community Chest South Shore’s Youth Board at the annual 5K Family Run/Walk in Atlantic Beach last October.

Community Chest Youth Board empowers teens

Community Chest South Shore, formerly known as Five Towns Community Chest, is a 90-year-old local organization that gives high school-age teens opportunities to volunteer, become involved in the local community and expand their social network through its Youth Board. more

By Lisa Margaria | 1/20/22

The Jan. 18 meeting where town and village officials and the developers were to discuss a plan for the Woodmere Club was canceled by the Town of Hempstead. Above, golfers play on the course in 2019.

Town of Hempstead cancels Woodmere Club meeting

Even before the sale of the Woodmere Club was consummated in early 2017, the battle over what it would become began in late 2016, with the formation of a grass-roots organization, the Five Towns Civic Association. more

By Jeff Bessen | 1/14/22

Cannabis plants in a commercial greenhouse in Denver.

Several Five Towns villages say no to cannabis businesses

All seven villages in the Five Towns area are among the roughly 400 New York municipalities that opted out of allowing licenses for either marijuana consumption lounges or retail dispensaries within their jurisdictions by the mandated state deadline of Dec. 31. more

By Jeff Bessen and Lisa Margaria | 1/6/22

It’s a blessing of a Thanksgiving in the Five Towns

Volunteers in the Five Towns have teamed up with organizations such as Gammy’s Pantry, a food pantry in the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence, Rock and Wrap It Up! Of Cedarhurst, Island Harvest and the Manna Project of Long Island to help those in need this Thanksgiving, after the coronavirus pandemic heightened food insecurity in the area in 2020. more

By Lisa Margaria | 11/24/21

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