5 Towns Community

After 27 years of providing outstanding education to hundreds of Jewish children in our community yeshivas, CAHAL is anticipating the 2019–2020 school year with the largest enrollment and number...

Representative Jerry Nadler visited the home of the revered Munkatcher Rebbe, shlita, where he was warmly welcomed by the Rebbe. The meeting served as an opportunity to discuss various...

Hundreds of more students at Jewish day schools and yeshivahs in New York City may be eligible for Title I educational assistance after a deal reached between the New...

An Inwood man was arrested Thursday afternoon in North Lawrence for taking pictures of a woman under her skirt. According to detectives, Jose Santana, 20, of 63 Wanser Avenue, an...

By Yochanan Gordon Alexander Olshanetsky composed the famous Klezmer tune Mayn Shtetele Belz sometime during the 1850s, a song that possesses strong yearnings for an era that, despite the affluence of...

New York State will receive more than $178 million in anti-terror funding from the federal government to protect synagogues and other houses of worship, Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Thirty-eight men filed a lawsuit claiming they were sexually abused at Yeshiva University High School for Boys in a period from the mid-1950s through 1986. The...

  The big news this week centers around Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib being refused entry into Israel by Benjamin Netanyahu. Reaching out for sympathy, Tlaib asked to be allowed...

  By Danielle Aronovitz Yes, it’s been five years! We are amazed and proud to have held our fifth annual bake sale through which the outpouring of love, support, cookies, cakes,...

BY MARCY OSTER (JTA) — Dozens of antisemitic flyers were found in a Queens, New York neighborhood. The incident is being investigated by the NYPD Hate Crimes Unit, the Queens Daily...