About our Children, April 2016

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‘The common language of music’ breaks barriers

By Lois Goldrich

Zamir Noded fosters musical excellence and friendship for young adults

Jane Isay (Harvey Wang)

‘Tourists in the land of childrearing’

By Joanne Palmer

Jane Isay discusses grandparenting at the JCC U

Paul Galan, president of the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education based at Rockland Community College, speaks to children in a local school.

Fighting hate in Rockland

By Abigail Klein Leichman

Local officials discuss strategies to combat anti-Semitism

Dr. Zach Mann

Is it funny?

By Joanne Palmer

Scholar in residence Zach Mann looks at Jewish humor on Shabbat in Woodcliff Lake

Reflections on Beth Sholom’s Shabbaton

By Joanne Palmer

Federation volunteers pack backpacks for supplies for success program.

Pop-up goes the mitzvah

By Larry Yudelson

Federation encourages bringing the mitzvah madness home

Many teenagers like to vape; they might not realize how addictive nicotine can be.

Substance abuse education for parents

By Abigail Klein Leichman

Bergen County Prevention Coalition to present interactive program at BPY

Letters

d'var torah

Rabbi Neal Borovitz

Tetzaveh: Don’t let the light go out

The helmet

The things we do for our kids. There is no end. From the day we bring them home from the hospital and it takes the kid’s father almost an hour to figure out how to put the base of the car seat in the... Continue Reading

Two friends laughed together at Sinai at TABC last year. (Photos courtesy sinai schools)

A visit to Sinai

By Joanne Palmer

A special school for special needs

Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, left, Rabbi Kenny Schiowitz, and Marianne Novak

On the outs over an intern

By Larry Yudelson

RCBC decides to bar members allowing female rabbinic trainees

Janet and Lior Hod

‘So many ways to be kind’

By Lois Goldrich

Synagogue to honor couple who endowed a Gratitude Award

Rabbi Dr. Ari Synter

Is your marriage just fine? Or is it great?

By Abigail Klein Leichman

Rabbi Dr. Ari Synter will examine the stressors in Orthodox marriages and how to overcome them

Rachel Hanuka, left, and Lois Goldrich, both of Fair Lawn, volunteered at the Federation Apartments in Paterson.

FIRST PERSON

Calling all angels

Lois Goldrich

Letters

Matthew Broderick, left, and Geza Rohrig
in “To Dust.” (All About the 360, Inc.)

It’s another odd couple — and it’s about grief

By Curt Schleier

And this happened to me…

This column is to be filed under “things that only happen to me.” Is it because I am a middle child? Possibly. Is it because I have such low self-esteem? Probably. But those options are for just two things I am sharing with you.... Continue Reading

Rabbi Menachem Genack, left, Matt Stoller, and Louis Brandeis

Bimbo backs down

By Larry Yudelson

Despite trend toward consolidation, kosher consumer power prevailed — this time

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When will they ever learn?

By Larry Yudelson

Frank Robinson as a member of the Cincinnati Reds in 1956. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

The Jewish realtor who kept Frank Robinson in Baltimore

Shiri: Play Israeli music

By Larry Yudelson

Netta Barzilai embraces inner pink rhino

George R.R. Martin, left, shown with “Finding Your Roots” host Henry Gates, Jr., was shocked by his DNA test. (Courtesy of McGee Media/Ark Media)

Plot twist, with no dead bodies

Sonny Schwartz, one of the organizers of a 1981 fundraiser for the Hebrew Academy of Atlantic County, N.J., presents Frank Sinatra with a personalized yarmulke at the event, held in a kosher hotel in Atlantic City. (Courtesy of Pauline Schwartz)

The story behind Frank Sinatra’s $10,000 yarmulke

By Stephen Silver

In prison, Michael Cohen could get matzah ball soup and rugelach

By Gabe Friedman

Mets star Lenny Dykstra studies Torah now

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Presidents Day

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Tue 19

Talk on Joan Rivers

February 19 , 10:30 am

Tue 19

Criminal justice and the Jews

February 19 , 7:00 pm

Tue 19

Crime and consequence

February 19 , 7:30 pm

Tue 19

Crime and consequence

February 19 , 8:00 pm

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