Neither Russia nor the Ukraine has ever been a welcoming homeland for the Jewish people. Despite the singing and dancing in “Fiddler on the Roof” . . .
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3/3/22
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The East Meadow Beth-El Jewish Center on Prospect Avenue in East Meadow completed a project Feb. 3 that not many others have taken on — an almost 40-year, word-by-word, verse-by-verse study of …
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By Mallory Wilson
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2/10/22
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If there is any topic guaranteed to irritate readers more than politics, it’s religion, but here goes a true story. In the innocent days before the plague of Covid-19 . . .
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8/8/20
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The Hippocratic Oath has been passed down through the ages because it contains some perennial wisdom: I will keep the sick from harm and injustice. I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asks for it, nor make a suggestion to this effect.
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9/21/18
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As the East Meadow United Methodist Church choir sang a rendition of “He Loves Me,” congregants from different churches and synagogues across East Meadow joined together for the 36th annual Interfaith Thanksgiving service on Nov. 19.
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By Stephany Reyes
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12/6/17
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Rabbi Andrew Warmflash offered his thoughts about Hanukkah, which is observed from Dec. 12 through 20 this year.
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12/6/17
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Screen panels lined two walls of a 53-foot double expandable trailer temporarily stationed in Temple Emanu-El’s parking lot. Faces of different races and ethnicities lit up each panel: old and young, employed and unemployed, plump faces and ones with defined cheekbones.
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By Stephany Reyes
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11/15/17
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The weather brightened last Friday long enough for Temple Emanu-El in East Meadow to hold its annual outdoor tradition: Shabbat Under the Stars, a special evening of prayer. Below, Rabbi Daniel …
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8/29/16
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Rabbi Daniel Bar-Nahum says that while his congregants at Temple Emanu-El recognize that there are many ways to practice their faith, they might not realize that fellow Reform Jews living in Israel …
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By Julie Mansmann
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2/18/16
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Concerning Rosh Hashana, The Torah states: “And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a Holy Assembly. You shall do no manner of creative work. It is a day of blowing the Shofar to you. And you shall make for yourse
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9/16/15
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