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Letter from Israel
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Abigail Klein Leichman
When the best-laid plans go awry … again
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‘We’re all in this together’
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Joanne Palmer
Teaneck official and family among thousands trying to find an exit strategy
‘I’ve never felt like this before’
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By
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By
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By
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Joanne Palmer
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‘We act with respect for a body that housed a soul’
By
Abigail Klein Leichman
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Selling art, feeding the hungry
By
Joanne Palmer
Miriam Stern of Teaneck offers work online; proceeds go to charity
More than just an epitaph
By
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‘Hope you like these socks’
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‘Tatami,’ a film about judo, explores such a confrontation
Calendar
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Choral concert in Tenafly
Sunday, June 22, 3 p.m.
Get-together in Leonia
Sunday, June 22, 4-6 p.m.
Concert in Wayne
Sunday, June 22, 7 p.m.
JCC turns 100
Tuesday, June 24
Talking about antisemitism
Wednesday, June 25, Noon
Chabad Center celebrates
Thursday, June 26
Goddess online
Friday, June 27, 10 a.m.
Next-generation singer in Wayne
Friday, June 27, 7:30 p.m.
Hospice cabaret in Upper Nyack
Sunday, June 29, 1:30 p.m.
Pride Shabbat in Teaneck
Friday, June 13, 8 p.m.
Second-generation survivors meet
Wednesday, June 18, noon-2 p.m.
Marking Juneteenth
Thursday, June 19, 12:30 p.m.
Get-together in Leonia
Sunday, June 22, 4–6 p.m.
Concert in Wayne
Sunday, June 22, 7 p.m.
Honorary dinner
Tuesday, June 24, 6:30 p.m.
Yiddish music in Manhattan
Sunday, June 15, 1 p.m.
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A tale of two wars
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Jewish women and girls: the world needs your light
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Gila Fortinsky
The radicals have ruined Yiddish New York
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In previous columns I have reminisced about how, when you have kids at home, the changing of the seasons is defined by what activities they have. For example, you know it is fall when they have soccer, and you are watching them play in the freezing cold, long after the sun has gone down. And you know it is summer when you start buying supplies for camp. Lots and lots of socks and underwear. The newest style of t-shirt-dry fit, cotton… With boys it was always easy and never...
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Abigail Klein Leichman
Local students go to Israel on Nitzavim Fellowship
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Jews live all over the world. This is not news. Nor is it news that Jews pick up influences from the cultures in which we live — Jewish food in Italy, say, isn’t the same as Jewish food in Morocco. The Jewish music with which most of us are...
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Tens of thousands of people marched up Fifth Avenue on Sunday. The crowd, marchers and onlookers alike, was estimated at more than 50,000 as the Israel Day on Fifth parade, with floats, bands, and large numbers of students and faculty from local day schools, including many from...
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