Families throughout the area are preparing to welcome spring in the holiday spirit, with Sunday’s Easter celebration, followed by Passover next month.
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By Karen Bloom
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3/23/16
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I’m not saying the sun isn’t shining as you read this (it’s always tricky to write about the weather) but the forecast looked dreadful this week.
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4/10/15
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Nassau County police patrols will be increased around synagogues, churches and other house of worship for the upcoming Passover and Easter holiday, officials announced on Tuesday.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/1/15
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Once again, the birthday fairy has smacked — um, tapped — me on the shoulder.
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4/10/14
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Families throughout the area will come together in the holiday spirit shortly as we celebrate Passover and Easter.
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By Karen Bloom
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4/9/14
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I was scaling the shelves of a local supermarket, trying to beat out another shopper who was heading for a box of farfel, when I had an epiphany . . .
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4/4/14
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Consider the Yiddish word latke. It is what it sounds like, an onomatopoeic name for a flat, fried potato pancake consumed by Jewish people during Hanukkah.
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12/13/12
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It seems divinely appropriate when Christian and Jewish holidays coincide, but it doesn’t happen that often.
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4/5/12
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Women from six local temples gathered on March 21 for the sixth annual Joint Women’s Seder, held at Temple Am Echad in Lynbrook.
Representatives from Sisterhood of Temple Am Echad, Women of …
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By Mary Malloy
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3/28/12
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Thus it came to be in the land of Brooklyn that Morris Brownstein knew Anna Brownstein, his second cousin, and they begot Hilda, Murray, Pearl and Zelda. Pearl, third in the family order, is my mother and the only one who seems to have entirely escaped the questionable legacy of having parents who are also blood relatives.
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Randi Kreiss
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4/14/11
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