About
A directory built on sources, not hearsay.
My Jewish lists the places a Jewish community runs on, and shows you where every detail came from.
Why it exists
Every Jewish community has its lists: the shul directory, the vaad's certified stores, the gemach sheet someone keeps on a shared drive. They're useful, and they go out of date. New families, visitors and people helping an elderly parent find a mikvah or a kosher meal often can't tell which list is current.
My Jewish puts it in one place, town by town, and attaches a source link and a date to every listing, so you can see for yourself whether it's still right. This site covers the Five Towns on Long Island (Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Hewlett and Inwood) and the places nearby that Five Towns families use in Far Rockaway, North Woodmere, Valley Stream and Atlantic Beach.
It's free, it has no accounts and no forms, and it doesn't sell anything.
- places listed
- 146
- source pages linked
- 71
- community live
- 1
- paid listings
- 0
Method
How we check a listing.
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One source per fact
We start from a public source we can link to: the place's own website, a government register (such as New York State's kosher food registrations or the federal private school survey) or a community list, and record exactly what it says, including the supervision it states, in its own wording.
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A date on everything
Every listing shows the day it was checked and links to the page we read. The current listings were checked on November 11, 2026.
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Gaps stay visible
If a place doesn't publish its address or hechsher, the listing says so. A detail from another source, such as OpenStreetMap, is labelled with where it came from.
What we don't do
Three promises.
No paid placement
Listings are free and the order is alphabetical. Nobody can pay to appear or to rank higher.
No kashrus rulings
Supervision is shown as each business states it. Whether it meets your standard is a question for your rav.
No tracking
No advertising cookies, no accounts, no forms. Your accessibility settings stay on your own device.
Who runs it
Company information
My Jewish Five Towns (myjewishfivetowns.org) is published by Anywhere Reality Industries LLC, trading as Consult With Ari, a limited liability company registered in Delaware, USA. It's part of My Jewish, a family of sourced Jewish community directories.
I'm Ari, a web consultant based in Jerusalem and New York, and I built and maintain My Jewish. I build community and small-business websites, and this is one of a family of free community sites I run, each of which says who is behind it, links to its sources and shows when facts were last checked.
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Contact
Corrections, new listings and questions
Use the email or WhatsApp button. Email is best. For a correction, include a link to the page that shows the right details. We read everything; we don't add anyone to a mailing list.
