News, announcements and local information for New York's Five Towns community.
Publisher websiteThe Village of Atlantic Beach has agreed to revise its zoning regulations after the U.S. Department of Justice raised concerns that religious institutions were being treated differently from comparable secular establishments.
Source: Chabad.org Less than 24 hours after a woman followed him along a Manhattan sidewalk and stabbed him in the back, Chabad rabbinical student Yosef was back in Midtown dropping in on Jewish merchants and craftsmen in the Diamond District to help them don tefillin.
Sharing the shofar schedule for Rosh Hashanah! There are plenty of times and locations throughout the day to make it easy to hear the shofar. If you or someone you know is homebound, there’s also an option to arrange a shofar sounding at home.
By: Rabbi Efrem Goldberg A fascinating debate broke out online last week over a question that sounds semantic but is actually profound. Though it wasn’t framed this way, to me, the question being debated was essentially: is there a difference between being a Jew and being Jewish?
