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A crowd of community members and members of Congregation Beth Sholom gathered for the synagogue’s 70th annual dinner on June 8 in Lawrence. more
Hundreds gathered at Congregation Beth Sholom in Lawrence to commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, paying tribute to the six million Jews that were killed during World War II. more
Entertainment for children of all ages, food and gifts will all be part of the Nassau County Police Department’s Faith & Blue event from 10 a.m. to noon at Congregation Beth Sholom at 390 Broadway in Lawrence as a way to connect to the community. more
A lengthy, threatening note slipped into a package of Five Towns Jewish Times newspapers that were left on the doorstep of Rabbi Kenneth Hain’s Lawrence home last Friday attacked him after Hain, a prominent spiritual leader, took a stand against a news photo that the outlet recently published on its front page. more
A trio of Five Towns synagogues are taking part in the Orthodox Union Women’s Initiative Simchat Torah Program on Oct. 22 to make the observance of Simchat Torah more meaningful for women in North America. more
Brooklyn resident Rahmel Watkins was found guilty on Sept. 24 on four counts of second-degree assault, two counts of negligent homicide, reckless endangerment and reckless driving for the April 2018 car crash that killed Elisheva Kaplan and Yisroel Levin on the Nassau Expressway in Lawrence. more
Zakiyyah Steward, one of the two people charged in the fatal April 4 car crash in Lawrence last year, had her sentencing hearing postponed again, this time to Sept. 24, from July 11. It was originally May 9. Steward, along with Rahmel Watkins, both Brooklyn residents, are considered responsible for a five-car crash that killed an engaged couple on the Nassau Expressway. more
The Holocaust is part of Syd Mandelbaum’s DNA. He was conceived in the Landsberg displaced-persons camp near Munich, where his parents, Joseph and Lena Mandelbaum, spent five years after World War II before they came to the United States. more
Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway Elementary School students returned to their Lawrence campus for the first time since the Jan. 10 fire that began in a second-floor science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, lab, and resulted in water and smoke damage to other parts of the school. more
With the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway on winter break until Jan. 28, school officials are assessing when, or if, classes will be able to resume at the elementary school this academic year after a Jan. 10 fire damaged part of the building. more
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