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Wantagh's Temple B'Nai Torah hosts garden party

It all started with a simple question: Can we have a garden like this? more

By Michael Malaszczyk | 6/18/23

On Dec. 4, Temple B'Nai Torah in Wantagh hosted a Torah Writing. Ronni Fauci, Rabbi Daniel Bar-Nahum, Cantor Rica Timman and Joyce Rapaport are standing by the Torahs.

Wantagh-based temple celebrates Torah restoration

Temple B’nai Torah in Wantagh recently took a giant step forward in unifying its diverse congregation by hosting a weekend-long spiritual Torah restoration. more

By Michael Malaszczyk | 12/8/22

Alexis Zayas, 27, had donated blood since she was in high school.

Following a blood donor’s example

She was only 27 when she died, but already Alexis Zayas had demonstrated a passion for helping others. Among the good works attributed to her was her commitment to donating blood in her community … more

By Mallory Wilson | 3/24/22

Rona Kauffman delicately helds a sunchoke, a vegetable that blooms in March.

Wantagh temple garden is giving back to those in need

Birds chirped, and the smell of dirt and garlic filled the warm spring air as about a dozen volunteers worked on a community-service garden at Temple B’nai Torah, in Wantagh, on March 15. They … more

By Maria Cestero | 3/24/22

Congregants from Temple B’nai Torah took their first trip as a joint congregation after merging with Temple Emanu-El in East Meadow last June. They visited three historical cities in Europe, including Vienna, where they visited the Staadttemple synagogue.

Temple B’nai Torah embarks on first heritage trip since merger

When faith leaders and congregants were planning the merger of East Meadow’s Temple Emanu-El and Wantagh’s Temple B’nai Torah, an idea that came to mind was to create a heritage trip on which … more

By Brian Stieglitz | 11/21/18

Temple B’nai Torah in Wantagh hosted an interfaith vigil last Sunday to honor the 11 people who died in the shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation synagogue in Pittsburgh. Faith leaders who addressed the crowd included, from left, the Rev. James Barnum, of the Bellmore Presbyterian Church; the Rev. Dan Olsen, of New Hope Church in Westbury; the Rev. Christopher Hofer, of the Church of St. Jude in Wantagh; the Rev. Martin Nale, of Christ Lutheran Church of Wantagh; Cantor Rica Timman, Rabbi Daniel Bar-Nahum and Rabbi Howard Nacht, of Temple B’nai Torah in Wantagh; the Rev. Louis Knowles, of the First Presbyterian Church in Levittown; the Rev. Greg Cappucino, of St. Frances de Chantal Roman Catholic Church in Wantagh; the Rev. Maxine Barnett, of the Church of St. Jude in Wantagh; and the Rev. Ron Garner, of Wantagh Memorial Congregational Church.

Temple B'nai Torah unites against hate with interfaith vigil

In the wake of the Oct. 27 shooting that left 11 people dead at the Tree of Life Congregation synagogue in Pittsburgh, 11 religious leaders from across Nassau County led an interfaith memorial at … more

By Brian Stieglitz | 11/8/18

Jacob Liebovitz, 16, of East Meadow, right, was one of nearly 60 congregants of Temple Emanu-El in East Meadow who carried the Torah to their new home at Temple B’nai Torah in Wantagh. Rabbi Daniel Bar-Nahum escorted his congregation on the 3.8-mile march.

The road to a new beginning

After Rabbi Daniel Bar-Nahum, of Temple Emanu-El, extinguished the East Meadow synagogue’s “eternal flame” last Sunday, there was a pause and a silence that was broken by a … more

By Brian Stieglitz and James Mattone | 6/14/18

Andrea Conwell shared her favorite memories as a congregant at Temple Emanu-El in East Meadow as its upcoming merger with Temple B’Nai Torah in Wantagh approached.

A marriage of ideas

Sitting inside the dome-like synagogue at Temple Emanu-El, you are meant to feel “in the middle” and “included at all times,” Jeff Kraut, a historian and congregant of the East Meadow temple, … more

By Brian Stieglitz and James Mattone | 5/3/18

Finding common ground between faiths

When he returned to the U.S. after World War II, my grandpa, Vincent Pastore, sometimes sifted through the nightmarish memories that I could never fully understand by simply regarding his Purple Heart. more

2/2/18

Rabbi Daniel Bar-Nahum, of Temple Emanu-El of East Meadow, and Rabbi Howard Nacht, of Temple B’Nai Torah in Wantagh, led a joint Simchat Torah service last October.

Re-evaluating religion

“People aren’t looking any less for comfort and religious experiences,” said Rabbi Daniel Bar-Nahum, of Temple Emanu-El of East Meadow. “But the way they approach it is … more

By Rebecca Anderson and Stephany Reyes | 1/3/18

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