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14-590: The Five Towns Jewish Times is a weekly newspaper serving the Jewish communities of the Five Towns in southwestern Nassau County , New York , and the greater New York area, covering the area's large and growing Orthodox Jewish community. The paper grew out of publisher Larry Gordon's response to an effort in 2000 by the Lawrence municipality to limit the establishment and growth of local Orthodox synagogues . Gordon wrote

28-656: A Girl Scouts of the USA encampment by the "Five Towns Council, embracing the villages [ sic ] of Inwood, Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere and Hewlett", listed in order by LIRR station. One notable characteristic of the Five Towns is that despite the reputation of the South Shore of Nassau County being more urbanized than the North Shore , the Five Towns retains hamlets that resemble areas along Long Island's Gold Coast on

42-628: A series of articles for the local Nassau Herald , which resulted in an abrupt policy reversal. Believing the Orthodox community needed its own media, Gordon established the 5 Towns Jewish Times . Originally published twice a month, it is now published 50 times a year. The paper is distributed every Thursday on newsstands and in synagogues and Jewish community centers . It is distributed for free on Long Island and sold for $ 1.00 in New York City and to weekly subscribers. The current print run each week

56-426: Is 20,000 papers. This Judaism -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Five Towns The area also includes some unincorporated communities and two small villages, Hewlett Bay Park and Woodsburgh, that are not added to the final total. Despite the name, none of these communities is a town . The Five Towns is usually said to comprise the villages of Lawrence and Cedarhurst ,

70-462: Is currently located in Dix Hills , Suffolk County . Other than the proposed original site, the school never had a physical connection to the Five Towns. By the 1980s, the Five Towns had developed a large Jewish community. The UJA-Federation of New York estimated that 35,000 Jews lived in the area, out of a total of 47,048 counted in the 1980 census, with a growing number of Orthodox Jews . By 2010,

84-594: The Hewlett-Woodmere School District (District 14). Roughly speaking, the Lawrence school district contains all of Lawrence, Cedarhurst and Inwood, and parts of Woodmere, North Woodmere, and Woodsburgh, while the Hewlett-Woodmere district contains all of Hewlett and part of Woodmere and extends partly into the neighboring villages of Lynbrook and Valley Stream (North Woodmere and Gibson in particular). In addition, there are many private schools in

98-417: The "Five Towns," as it is a section of Valley Stream , separated from the rest of the Five Towns by Motts Creek. Atlantic Beach , which is located across a drawbridge from Lawrence on a barrier island it shares with Long Beach , Lido Beach and Point Lookout , is culturally linked to the Five Towns, with its students attending Five Towns public schools, but it is usually — though not always — excluded from

112-427: The Five Towns hosted a large number of synagogues , Jewish private schools, and kosher restaurants. The Orthodox community had become so large that many incoming Orthodox families chose to move to adjoining areas like Far Rockaway and North Woodmere . As of February 2019, the Five Towns has two weekly local publications: The Nassau Herald and The Five Towns Jewish Times. Notable current and former residents of

126-408: The Five Towns include: Lawrence Public Schools (New York) Dr. Asher Mansdorf, Vice President Dr. David Sussman, Trustee Mr. Heshy Blachorsky, Trustee Mr. Abel Feldhamer, Trustee Mr. Michael Hatten, Trustee The Lawrence Public Schools Union Free School District 15 is a comprehensive community public school district , serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade, located in

140-414: The Five Towns. Among them are the independent school, Lawrence Woodmere Academy , and Jewish schools, Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) , Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (HALB) , and Yeshiva of South Shore . Although Lawrence was planned to be the location for Five Towns College , the original site was no longer available by the time the school received its charter in 1972. The college

154-530: The North Shore with enormous mansions and exclusive private communities along the water. The New York Times used the term "affluent" in describing the area. Inwood, however, is much less affluent than the other "towns," with a more urban character and a significantly more ethnically diverse population. There are two school districts in the Five Towns, the Lawrence Public Schools (District 15) and

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168-491: The designation. The name "Five Towns" dates back to 1931, when individual Community Chest groups in the area banded together to form the "Five Towns Community Chest", consisting of Inwood, Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, and Hewlett. The organization still exists (as of 2018) as a local charity, but the "Five Towns" moniker caught on as a designation for the entire area. A 1933 article in The New York Times references

182-424: The hamlets of Woodmere and Inwood , and "The Hewletts,” which consist of the villages of Hewlett Bay Park , Hewlett Harbor , and Hewlett Neck , and the hamlet of Hewlett , along with Woodsburgh . North Woodmere is technically one of the "Five Towns" as it is served by the Five Towns' two local high schools and its constituents use the "Five Towns" many public services. Others do not consider it to be part of

196-423: The southwest section of Nassau County, New York , and borders the New York City borough of Queens . Communities in the district include Lawrence , Cedarhurst , Inwood , and Atlantic Beach . It also includes sections of the municipality of Woodsburgh , as well as the census-designated places of Woodmere and East Atlantic Beach . It also includes a part of North Woodmere . The district consists of

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