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Kaminsky Secures STEM Grants for Local Yeshivas, Day Schools
Senator Todd Kaminsky announced that he helped secure more than $250,000 in STEM education grants for local Five Towns yeshivas from...
YU Democrats Club Loses Official Status After LGBTQ Advocacy
BY SAM SOKOL
(JTA) — A student organization at Yeshiva University lost its official status after organizing a protest march calling for the establishment of a Gay-Straight Alliance Club and permission...
Writing Professor at Syracuse Receives Antisemitic Emails
JNS.org – A Jewish professor at Syracuse University in New York received a threatening anonymous email last week containing antisemitic language and references to the Holocaust.
The email that Genevieve...
Annual NYPD Pre-Rosh Hashanah Briefing at One Police Plaza
On Wednesday, September 18, the NYPD held its annual pre-Rosh Hashanah security briefing at the auditorium of One Police Plaza.
Among the speakers were Rabbi Dr. Alvin Kass, chief chaplain...
Flatbush Processing Arrest of Former Teacher Who Preyed on Children
NEW YORK (JTA) — Sitting at the front of a large room lined floor to ceiling with Jewish holy books, Rabbi Joseph Beyda’s voice broke as he processed, seemingly...
Fountaingate Gardens to Break Ground Spring 2020
Fountaingate Gardens, the proposed Life Plan Community (also known as a Continuing Care Retirement Community, or CCRC) sponsored by Gurwin in Commack, recently revealed its plans to begin construction...
Cuomo Pledges Extra Protection for Jewish Institutions on Yom Kippur
Amid a surge in antisemitic attacks in New York City, worshipers attending Yom Kippur services on Tuesday night and Wednesday will be protected by an increased police presence, New...
COJO Hosts Chief Kenneth Corey at Rosh Hashanah Security Meeting
On Thursday, September 12, at the New York City Police Department, Patrol Borough Staten Island, located on the second floor of Precinct 121, in the Graniteville section of Staten...
Backpack Set Alight on Steps of Brooklyn Jewish Center on Yom Kippur
BY MARCY OSTER
(JTA) — A backpack was set alight and left on the steps of a Jewish center in Brooklyn on Yom Kippur.
The burning backpack on the steps of the...
NY’s New Education Regulations Are Vital for Hasidic Children
By MIRIAM MOSTER
NEW YORK (JTA) — On our first date nearly nine years ago, my (now) husband resolved to improve Hasidic education. He had grown up in the Belz Hasidic community...
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Lieberman: Israel Is Headed Back to Elections
JNS.org – Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that Israel is headed to its third round of elections this year.
“Elections are...
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
By Yochanan Gordon
There is a famous English adage that says that a picture is worth a thousand words. The emphasis in this saying, whose...
Malkie Hirsch: Band Of Brothers
By Malkie Hirsch
I’m the oldest of six, and the first four of us were born within six years. A childhood memory of mine is...