5 Towns Jewish Times

29/05/2025

Recognizing the outstanding achievements of the Fourth Annual Student Journalism Awardees. These high school seniors have demonstrated exceptional commitment to their school's podcasts, newspaper, and yearbook and will undoubtedly excel in their future academic and professional pursuits. HAFTR HANC High School Hebrew Academy of Long Beach Esta Gordon Larry Gordon

25/05/2025

22/05/2025

Recognizing the outstanding achievements of the Fourth Annual Student Journalism Awardees. These high school seniors have demonstrated exceptional commitment to their school's newspaper and yearbook and will undoubtedly excel in their future academic and professional pursuits. Rambam Mesivta North Shore Hebrew Academy High School
Larry Gordon Esta Gordon 🎉👏💫

23/01/2025

Happy to launch our new column by the highly respected Anthony D'Esposito . His dedicated service to the community will continue as he provides expert analysis of Washington politics.

5TJT also appreciates the Op Eds of Assemblyman Ari Brown which appear regularly in the paper.

Grabbed ☕️ with my good friend, Assemblyman Ari Brown at Central Perk in the Village of Cedarhurst and picked up a copy of 5 Towns Jewish Times which features my new weekly column, "Mensch with a Mission."

This week focuses on President Donald J. Trump's Inauguration, confirmation hearings, Israel/Hamas deal, fighting anti-semitism, mass deportations & more.

13/12/2024

https://www.5tjt.com/sjp-protest-intentionally-targeting-members-of-our-community-nyu-says/
“Their harassing behavior disrupted our academic operations at a particularly critical moment in the semester—as finals start—ignored the rights of students who wish to study in the library and interfered with safe passage into and out of a core academic building,” New York University NYPD

Vita Fellig (Dec. 12, 2024 / JNS) Eight people were arrested at a New York University chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine protest, which blocked entry to the school’s library on Thursday afternoon, according to the private, nonprofit school in Greenwich Village, New York City. “The univ...

13/12/2024

https://www.5tjt.com/nypd-investigating-attack-on-jewish-columbia-student-as-hate-crime/
A 22-year-old man-made antisemitic comments at and snatched an Israeli flag from the victim at about 3:30 p.m. on Monday in front of 41 Claremont Avenue, near the Columbia University and Barnard College campuses, the NYPD told JNS. NYPD

Vita Fellig Dec. 12, 2024 / JNS) The New York City Police Department told JNS that it is investigating an attack on a Jewish Columbia University student as a potential hate crime. A 22-year-old man-made antisemitic comments at and snatched an Israeli flag from the victim at about 3:30 p.m. on Monday...

13/12/2024

https://www.5tjt.com/house-passes-annual-defense-bill-with-hundreds-of-millions-for-israel/
Formally titled the “Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025,” the legislation includes $500 million for U.S.-Israel missile-defense cooperation, $47.5 million for U.S.-Israel cooperation on emerging technologies and $80 million for the U.S.-Israeli anti-tunneling initiative.

Andrew Bernard (Dec. 11, 2024 / JNS) The U.S. House of Representatives passed the $895 billion annual defense bill on Wednesday with hundreds of millions of dollars for Israel. Formally titled the “Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 202...

13/12/2024

https://www.5tjt.com/moral-failure-israeli-mission-in-new-york-says-of-votes-in-united-nations/
The U.N. General Assembly voted almost unanimously on Wednesday to support two non-binding resolutions, one that demands that Israel end its war against the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip and the other allowing the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to continue to operate in the Jewish state. UNRWA

Akiva Van Koningsveld Dec. 12, 2024 / JNS) The U.N. General Assembly voted almost unanimously on Wednesday to support two non-binding resolutions, one that demands that Israel end its war against the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip and the other allowing the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)...

13/12/2024

https://www.5tjt.com/the-near-future/
Bashar al-Assad and his father were brutal dictators who murdered hundreds of thousands of their own citizens if there was a whiff of an uprising or a challenge to their leadership. They joined forces with Jordan, Egypt, and a few other countries in 1967 believing that their combined might would wipe out the Jewish State. Instead, the entire Syrian Air Force was wiped out within days as Israel reclaimed the Golan and established a demilitarized zone between the two countries.

By Larry Gordon Over the next few months and years, the pundits will be doing a great deal of analyzing over what should have and should not have been done with the multiple conflagrations in the Middle East. It is now abundantly clear that Israel is a big winner as well as, tragically, a loser …

12/12/2024

https://www.5tjt.com/the-near-future/
Now that the situation is getting closer to its conclusion, it will become crystal clear to what extent aspects of the post-October 7 battles were bungled by President Biden and his foreign policy advisors, who were torn between not wanting the terrorists to lose conclusively, while not wanting the Israelis to score a decisive victory. President Joe Biden

By Larry Gordon Over the next few months and years, the pundits will be doing a great deal of analyzing over what should have and should not have been done with the multiple conflagrations in the Middle East. It is now abundantly clear that Israel is a big winner as well as, tragically, a loser …