News From the Hills: Another Election Season
Israel is headed to another election because Netanyahu has failed to put together a coalition. The right-wing religious parties and Lieberman’s party are stuck in not being able to...
Melinda Katz Commends Rockaways For Resiliency After Storm
On Thursday, May 30, Melinda Katz, Democrat for Queens Borough President, toured the Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula and was introduced to all the services the JCCRP...
What’s In A Name?
By Malkie Gordon Hirsch
The first time it happened, we brushed it off because of Rosie’s age.
Because of her inability to realize at 4 years old that maybe it wasn’t...
Annual Singles Shabbaton in Lawrence for Ages 40–55
Mrs. Baila Sebrow, shadchan and 5TJT columnist, is proud to present the elegant annual Shabbaton and melaveh malkah for marriage-minded singles, ages 40–55, iy’H, November 16–17, Parashas Vayetzei, at...
Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi Dovid Lau visits Lawrence
Chief Ashkenazic rabbi of Israel Rabbi Dovid Lau, visited Lawrence on Tuesday, May 21 for a private dinner with community rabbanim and ba’alei batim. Rabbi Lau came to the...
YUConnects Celebrates 500th Engagement
YU’s unique relationship-building resource caters to entire Jewish community
New York, NY, September 23, 2021 – What began 13 years ago as a local effort to help Yeshiva University students...
Goldfeder Unites Elected Officials and Community to Stop Homeless Shelter in Far Rockaway
Mayor de Blasio and Department of Homeless Services (DHS) agree to cancel any future plans in Rockaway
Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Far Rockaway), together with Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-Rockaway), Queens Borough...
Local Political Roundup
The Lawrence People’s Party Led By Danny Goldstein
By Bruce Backman
The coming election on September 15, 2020 in the Village of Lawrence is a consequential moment for the future of...
Kaminsky Urges NYS Homeland Security Commissioner To Include Security Grant Funding For Religious...
Senator Todd Kaminsky recently urged New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (“DHSES”) Commissioner Roger Parrino at a Senate hearing to include security grant funding for...
A Lifetime Of Giving: The Legacy Of Mendy Klein, a’h
By Zvi Gluck
As founder and director of Amudim, I deal with heartbreak on a daily basis and, sadly, I am no stranger to death. But despite having spent 18...
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AMIT Honors Its History, Paves The Way For The Future With Remarkable Evening With...
Stuart and Rivka Berger with Anne Wasserman, Member, Board of Directors, AMIT, Mark Wasserman
By Michele Justic
In a little apartment across the street from his...
A New View
Every couple of months, teenagers indulge in a routine “Awww! Remember that?” session, at which all individuals present recall moments from the past and...
Ads Ad Nauseam
This time of year, I find a blizzard of ads on my doorstep and in my door, plastered all over the newspapers, and blasting...