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Give your child a great baseball experience

Valbrook Baseball Camp is designed for aspiring baseball players from ages 5 through 14 who are looking to improve their skills, learn more about the game and . . . more

By Teri Ann Loeser | 6/30/16

Cedarhurst resident Jaime Oberstein with her boyfriend, Jonathan Delin, at the Lawrence High School pre-prom on June 22.

Romance blooms amid life’s coincidences

Young romances blossom during summer camp, but not many people have the tale to tell that Cedarhurst resident Jaime Oberstein does when she recounts meeting her boyfriend, Jonathan Delin. more

By Jeff Bessen | 6/29/16

Eva Ebin, Rachel Gleitman AND VERA Eden, left to right, nd Vera Eden escaped death when a shower head used to release poison gas malfunctioned at the concentration camp in Auschwitz.

Reunited after 70 years

A malfunctioning gas chamber shower head saved the lives of three women from Munkacs, Czechoslovakia, in May 1945 at Auschwitz, one of several Nazi concentration camps. Shortly after their brush with death, Auschwitz was liberated by Allied forces. more

By Vanessa Parker | 11/25/15

North Woodmere resident Larry Parker, a former director of Camp Anawana with a mural found at the closed upstate facility.

Remembering their summers at Camp Anawana

Color War, making out and lasting friendships are part of the summer camp experience. Several former Camp Anawana campers shared their memories of the long-gone sleep away camp that was near Kutsher’s Resort in the Catskills Mountains. more

By Jeff Bessen and Elysa Parker | 10/21/15

Ray Okvrowski and Paul Moran head out at the start of Peninsula Kiwanis's annual golf outing on Aug. 24.

Kiwanis tees off for charity

The Peninsula Kiwanis Club held its annual golf outing at the Lawrence Yacht & Country Club on Aug. 24, to help raise money for the group’s donations to SIBSPlace and Camp Anchor. more

By Jeff Bessen | 8/26/15

Throughout the summer, Hillel Day Camp girls learned the fundamentals of golf and tennis at the Lawrence Yacht & Country Club. Annaruth Box, 9, of Hewlett, was ready to drive the ball.

Growing golf, learning tennis

For the second year in a row, the Lawrence-based Hillel Day Camp partnered with the Lawrence Yacht & Country Club to provide golf and tennis lessons to campers, but this year it was the girls turn. more

By Vanessa Parker | 8/26/15

Hillel Day Camp’s Counselors in Training and their supervisors loaded up used electronics for recycling.

Eliminating the electronic waste

Middle school-aged children from Hillel Day Camp, which is held on the Lawrence campus of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR), along with kids and young adults 12 to 21 from the Hebrew Academy For Special Children in Woodmere, joined together to recycle used electronics on Aug. 13. more

By Vanessa Parker | 8/26/15

Veterinarian Dr. Lee Gelfand, of Merrick, above, struggled for months to restore his business, All Creatures Veterinary Hospital in Long Beach, after Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012. He was forced to take roughly $750,000 in private loans to keep the clinic afloat. Above, Gelfand at the hospital shortly after the storm.

Businesses slowly recover after Sandy

Rolling River Day Camp sits on five acres along Mill River, which snakes through East Rockaway and Bay Park on the way to East Rockaway Channel. The river can be a friend. It forms an idyllic backdrop for a camp replete with swimming pools, playgrounds and ball fields. It can also be a foe. During a nor’easter in 2010, Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the river inundated much of the camp, wreaking havoc. more

By Scott Brinton | 7/28/15

Boating was never as peaceful as it was in an inflatable pool at Kulanu Fair at Andre J. Parise Cedarhurst Park last Sunday.

Kulanu’s fair day at Cedarhurst Park [Photo gallery]

Rides, games, face painting, pony rides, crafts, raffles and refreshments were all part of the annual Kulanu Fair held at Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park last Sunday. more

6/10/15

Holocaust Remembrance Day was commemorated by many Five Towns synagogues during two events on Wednesday. Above, Polish-born Holocaust survivor Meyer Hack showed his prisoner number that was branded on his arm.

Commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day

Calling it one of the most important events in Jewish history, Rabbi Steven Graber, the spiritual leader of Temple Hillel in North Woodmere, listed two other reasons why the Holocaust should be remembered. more

By Jeff Bessen | 4/16/15

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