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Area synagogues are getting ready for the high holy days. These holidays, which celebrate the Jewish New Year, start with Rosh Hashanah on the night of Sept. 24 and end with Yom Kippur on Oct. 4.
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By Rebecca Melnitsky
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9/17/14
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The South High School Cultural Society entertained about 60 children and adults at the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library last Saturday morning to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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1/29/14
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For those who are still feeling that New Year’s spirit, keep the revelry going with a Chinese New Year’s celebration.
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1/22/14
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With 2014 well underway, many have stopped looking back to last year and started planning for what to do with the remainder of this one.
For politicians representing Rockville Centre, that means …
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By Alex Costello
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1/16/14
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In the spring of 1991, I was preparing to leave New York and begin my rabbinic career in New Orleans. One of the doormen in the building I then lived in stopped me as I was going out. “I want to show you something,” he told me, and he opened up the Daily News.
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By Rabbi Scott Hoffman, Temple Israel of South Merrick
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9/5/13
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When New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia served as a municipal court judge early in his career, a man who was caught stealing a loaf of bread was brought before him for sentencing. LaGuardia’s judgment that day, so the story goes, made an impact on everyone in the courtroom. The man was going to have to pay a fine for the theft as well the bread that he stole. Then La Guardia asked all in the courtroom to empty their pockets to cover the man’s fine. He said, “We are all responsible for the society where a man needs to steal a loaf of bread to survive.”
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By Rabbi Dahlia Bernstein, Bellmore Jewish Center
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9/5/13
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Just this past week, as I was sitting in my office, a man knocked on the door. He introduced himself and wanted to sell the synagogue some office supplies from the company he represented. After we finished our business, we got talking and it turned out that he is Jewish.
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By Rabbi Yitzchak Goldshmid
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9/4/13
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Take out the broom and sweep away the winter doldrums with a Chinese New Year gathering: the Year of the Snake is celebrated on Feb. 10.
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2/6/13
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Several runners from both Malverne and West Hempstead took part in the annual Nassau County New Year’s Eve Dash in Eisenhower Park,
Leading the locals over the finish line of the 5K race was …
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1/15/13
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