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They provide us with a lot of thoughtful radio talk and a refreshing breath of fresh air as opposed to the opposite that predominates the media these days. I began listening to Curtis and Sid on the radio years ago because I am what you might call a “radio rat” from my earliest days. In […]

23 These are their names: Jesse Vogel, Micha Leder, Jon Shetrit, and Isaac Stern. They reside in the Five Towns and Far Rockaway and in the aftermath of October 7, they were restless and like the rest of us, disturbed and bothered by what happened in Israel. This small group is part of the larger […]

Some 2,500 students, faculty and staff attended the Nov. 14 rally in Washington, D.C.The post Going to ‘March for Israel’ part of curriculum, senior Yeshiva administrator says appeared first on

In a show of chizuk, 24 American shul communities are pairing with individual Israeli citizens, families and communities directly impacted by the horrific events of Oct. 7, thanks to an initiative …

Musings Of A Shliach From Montana Last week I wrote about the bris that we hosted in Bozeman while Klal Yisroel was in Washington, D.C. rallying for Eretz Yisrael. Attending the bris were Rabbi Dovber and Rebbetzin Rochie Pinson, who direct the Iyyun Center in Brooklyn and have a shul in Montebello, outside of Monsey. […]

Local students may have to swap their snow boots for house slippers this winter as Boothbay Region High School (BRHS) begins a remote snow day pilot program. The school will implement online learning during some snow days instead of making them up...

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Around an hour into our pilgrimage to Washington, DC with a few hundred thousand others making the trek, I realized I left my phone at home. I had nodded off, as one does when woken up after four hours of restless sleep, and with a start, unzipped my fanny pack to […]

3,000 people flocked to Eisenhower Park on Sunday for the United Jewish Appeal – Federation New York’s Long Island Stands with Israel rally, to express a slew of emotions over the events transpiring in the Middle East.

A dream has become a reality for the Shulamith School for Girls, as it embarked on the new academic year in a newly acquired building at 305 Cedarhurst Ave. in Cedarhurst, previously the Lawrence school district’s Number Five School.

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch I stood in the middle of the Ghetto Fighters Museum we visited this summer with the TJJ program and listened to the various accounts of the women whose family members had gone through the war. We walked about the room observing the various collections of personal effects that belonged to families […]