5 Towns Community

  By Moshe Spern These past few months have been completely unpredictable. Our professional and family lives have been tested in unprecedented ways. Schools, shuls, weddings, bar mitzvahs, and other social...

I hear about people who are going out of their minds from being at home for so long. I understand that having children at home full time while parents...

By Tammy Mark Keep calm and “Kara Na” — that’s both the motto and the advice of Michal Weinstein, local business owner and Internet influencer. While Weinstein typically spends her...

By Marcy Farrell Editor, 5TJT.com Guidelines for opening synagogues that were issued late last week by the Orthodox Union and Agudath Israel seem to indicate that Orthodox synagogues will soon open their doors...

  Is it just me, or do any of my readers also feel that getting out of the house is a whole procedure? I try to limit my ventures out...

  Chayim Herskowitz contributed to this week’s column in memory of his grandfather, Pesach ben Yaakov Kapul (Mr. Paul Feldman). Sam Horowitz contributed to this week’s column in memory of...

  The Department of Education has expanded its food program with free kosher meals, available to any New Yorker, at its participating sites in Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island during...

BY JOSEFIN DOLSTEN (JTA) — Actors Shira Haas, Ben Platt and Josh Malina were among the stars who joined a virtual ceremony on Wednesday celebrating Israel’s 72nd Independence Day. The hourlong ceremony,...

  This is Week Five of staying alone in my house. Actually, it might be week six. Or perhaps it’s only week four. To put it bluntly, I am confused...

Lichvod the Wonderful Members of our Far Rockaway and Five Towns Community שיחיו :   We sincerely hope that this letter finds you all managing well under the current difficult circumstances,...