For the past decade Rabbi Shimon Stillerman, Co-Founder and Director of the Chabad of Islip Township has been bringing people together on South Shore Long Island and serving as a resource for its Jewish residents, community leaders and local school districts. Their policy of welcome is extended to those of secular lifestyle and interfaith relationships as well as those who embrace a more religious doctrine. With last year’s opening of the Chabad’s headquarters on Ocean Avenue in Islip Hamlet, their vision continues to grow and thrive. With Passover approaching, we sat down with Rabbi Stillerman to discuss his organization, life […]

“Trouble in Mind,” runs until April 21, 2024, at the intimate BAACA Center in Lindenhurst. This drama was written almost 70 years ago by Alice Childress, the first Black woman to have a play professionally produced in the United States. Childress directed the first production of “Trouble in Mind” at the Greenwich Mews Theatre in New York City and received an Obie Award in 1956 for Best Original Off-Broadway production, making her the first Black woman to receive that prestigious award. This award-winning play did not have a Broadway production until 2021, 27 years after Childress’s death.   EastLine Theatre […]

Belmont Park saw Secretariat move “like a tremendous machine” around its massive oval more than five decades ago when “Big Red” won the 1973 Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown in record-setting glory before tens of thousands of fans who packed the massive, quarter-mile grandstand.