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Slawomir Grunberg filming “Szymon’s Return” in Ukraine.

Shooting star comes to Tenafly

By Joanne Palmer

The Polish, American, and Jewish life of film maker Slawomir Grunberg

Dr. Adam Ferziger

Jerusalem and Babylon

By Joanne Palmer

Finalists in the International Bible Contest Champion of Champions onstage at the Jerusalem Convention Center on December 6. Rabbi Ezra Frazer is second from right in the top row; Yair Shahak is second from left in the bottom row. (Shlomi Cohen/FLASH90)

‘The word is very near to you’

By Abigail Klein Leichman

Two Teaneck scholars report on their experiences in the Champion of Champions of International Bible Contest

Aleh volunteers help a child learn how to drum at one of the organizations’s rehabilitative facilities.

Aleh’s new development director

By Lois Goldrich

Josh Pruzansky to raise funds for Israeli nonprofit helping children with complex disabilities

Yitz Landes’s Hebrew language book ‘Studies in the Development of Birkat ha-Avodah,’ above, has gone on sale at bookstores in Israel.

Mysterious case of the Ritzeh prayer

By Larry Yudelson

Student from Teaneck investigates origins of the siddur

d'var torah

Rabbi Paul Jacobson

Vayigash: When sorrow is embedded

To Cleveland, to Cleveland, to Cleveland we go!

Little kids, little problems; big kids, big problems. When I first heard this saying and my kids were little, I thought, “Ha, ha. You don’t know what you are talking about.” After all, once you finish toilet training your kids, what problems could you... Continue Reading

Chanukah around the Community

Dream Doctor Nimrod Eisenberg works with earthquake survivors in Nepal in 2015.
Courtesy of Dream Doctors

Clowning around

By Joanne Palmer

From Israel to Pittsburgh, red-nosed Dream Doctors bring cheer to hospitals

Judge Ruchie Freier leans against an emergency response vehicle of Ezras Nashim, the all-female ambulance corps she helped establish in Brooklyn. (Courtesy 93Queen)

A woman of valor on the bench

By Joanne Palmer

Judge Ruchie Freier will tell her story at two Teaneck shuls

Kutz campers in 1977. (Courtesy of Kutz Camp)

Remembering the spell of Kutz Camp

By Lois Goldrich

About-to-close teen leadership ‘academy’ remains very much alive in locals’ memories

Laurence Fine

Ridgewood student demands action

By Larry Yudelson

Teenager will prod synagogue to stand against gun violence

The Bergen County Herring Festival at Teaneck’s Congregation Netivot Shalom offers a smorgasbord of classics as well as new-wave sauces and flavors.

A fish story to get hooked on

By Heidi Mae Bratt

Netivot Shalom serves up a herring festival with more than just matjes

Director Uri Barbash, above, gestures as he describes the filming of “Black Honey,” about the life and Yiddish poetry of Abraham Sutzkever.

The essence of ‘Black Honey’

By Larry Yudelson

Israeli film about Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever will screen in Tenafly

A dreidel is projected on the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City in a nightly light show. (© Daniel Santacruz)

Letter from Israel: Chanukah here is the bigger deal

By Abigail Klein Leichman

Letters

Rabbi Tzvee Zahavy

Dear Rabbi Zahavy

Dear Rabbi Zahavy, I sit next to a person in synagogue who frequently engages me in conversation and tells me how evil Islam is. He seems preoccupied with this subject. He says Islam is a terrorist religion and he fears that all Muslims are potential... Continue Reading

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Rabbi David Bockman

Miketz: ‘This, too, will be for the good’

Happy Chanukah — now put down your phone!

Walk into any given room on any given day and you will see the majority of people in that room on their phones. I often wonder if visits to the chiropractors have gone up with an increase in neck problems because everyone is looking down... Continue Reading

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Crooner’s kippah fetches over $9,000 at auction

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

(Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)

Wilco singer Jeff Tweedy tells the story of his conversion to Judaism

By Gabe Friedman

Shatner earns wrath of Chanukah lovers

By Larry Yudelson and Josefin Dolsten

Speed Dreidel for the digital age

By Larry Yudelson

(Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)

Cardi B ‘epic’ bar mitzvah performance

By Gabe Friedman

U.S., Israel stamp together for Chanukah

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