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Smiles Through Cars, founded by Lawrence resident Josh Aryeh (Batman), includes volunteers from the Five Towns and other communities who visit ill children.
Batman and other superhero friends create kid smiles at St. Mary’s Children’s Hospital in Bayside
Lawrence resident Josh Aryeh has a unique hobby. Like Adam West, Michael Keaton, Christian Bale and Ben Affleck, Aryeh dons a Batman suit, but unlike the aforementioned TV and movie Caped Crusaders, he does not fight crime, he produces smiles. more
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Author Jill Santopolo at age 12 with her father, John Santopolo, whose death in 2015 was a major influence on her latest novel, ‘More Than Words.’
Hewlett native authors ‘More Than Words’ on sale Feb. 5
“Write what you know,” is an old piece of advice to authors attributed to the legendary Mark Twain. Jill Santopolo, who grew up in Hewlett, has taken these words to heart when crafting her novels, 2017’s “The Light We Lost,” and “More Than Words,” which was released on Feb. 5. more
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State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, left at lectern, and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins announced that a package of tighter gun restrictions was passed by the State Legislature on Jan. 29.
Legislators tighten New York's gun laws
On Jan. 30, state lawmakers approved the first new gun control laws since the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act passed in 2013. Gun control advocates cheered the further tightening … more
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Five Towns residents, Chaim Hecht, left, Shmuel Jacobs and Zaki Kapetas were rewarded for their great deed with $25 Visa cards from Signature Bank.
Doing a great mitzvah in Woodmere
There are 613 mitzvahs (commandments) documented in the Torah and more than a few revolve on helping one’s fellow person and, of course, one of the Ten Commandments, No. 8 to be exact is, “You shall not steal.” more
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New Gural JCC Executive Director Aaron Rosenfeld with administrative assistant Randi Gottlieb speaking about an organizational issue.
Aaron Rosenfeld is the new executive director of the Cedarhurst-based Gural JCC
Aaron Rosenfeld, the new executive director of the Cedarhurst-based Marion & Aaron Gural JCC in the Five Towns, was working as a lawyer in 2001, a profession he aspired to since the seventh grade, when he said he became the designated advocate for his schoolmates in debates with teachers over homework or other classroom issues. more
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Hewlett Harbor resident Gerald Morganstern loved his family, was valued for his professional expertise and had the esteem of his fellow village residents.
‘We were the best, best of friends’
They might have been the original “You had me at hello” couple. When Karen Gibbs, 18, went on a blind date in May 1965 with Columbia University Law School student Gerald “Jerry” Morganstern, 22, he was saying good night when he added, “While I’ve got you here . . .” Gibbs, who would become his wife, replied simply, “You’ve got me.” more
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Heralds seeking go-getter reporter on L.I.'s South Shore
Herald Community Newspapers seeks an entry-level journalist to report for one of our newspapers covering Long Island’s South Shore. Recent graduates and reporters in their first year or two in the … more
Heralds seek 2019 spring, summer interns
Herald Community Newspapers is seeking 2019 spring and summer interns for our 18 community-based publications that stretch across Nassau County’s South Shore, from Valley Stream to Seaford, and … more
On Super Bowl Sunday, Hewlett High School seniors, Aditi Dam, left, and Julia Grossman, along with Emily Bar-Masiah, Sulan Pathiranage and Chloe Van Steertegem will have their big game faces on as they present research at the Junior Science and Humanity Symposium at York College.
Hewlett High School seniors are Junior Science and Humanity Symposium semifinalists
Aditi Dam, Julia Grossman, Emily Bar-Masiah, Sulan Pathiranage and Chloe Van Steertegem, all seniors at Hewlett High School, were named semifinalists in the Junior Science and Humanity Symposium. All were invited to present their research at the Symposium on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 3 at York College in Queens. more
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West Hempstead native Yitzchak Milworn, 22, said that serving in the Israel Defense Forces was something he had planned to do since he was a teenager.
‘Lone soldier’ from West Hempstead fulfills his dream of serving in the Israel Defense Forces
West Hempstead native Yitzchak Milworn decided long ago that he wanted to serve in the Israel Defense Forces. During his senior year of high school at Rambam Mesivta, a Jewish private school in … more
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