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NJY Camps flourish during an unusual summer
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Rabbi Abigail Treu of Oheb Shalom Congregation speaks at Franklin-St. John's United Methodist Church. (Lincoln Haley)
Envisioning unity
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Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel models one of his chaplain shirts.
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By Debra Mazon
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Sheryl Intrator Urman
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  • Israeli songwriter rewrites Dylan: ‘It might be dark, but it’s not late yet’
    By Larry Yudelson
  • (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
    Israel’s Yuval Raphael comes in second at Eurovision
    By Philissa Cramer
  • Yuval Raphael, representing Israel, walks the Turquoise Carpet at the opening of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, on May 11. (Harold Cunningham/Getty Images)
    Israel’s Eurovision contestant, Yuval Raphael, is focused on music, not protests
    By Philissa Cramer
  • How not to get home for the seder
    By Larry Yudelson
  • A sinister seder set
    By Larry Yudelson
  • YU makes baseball history in Teaneck
    By Larry Yudelson
  • Head coach Jon Scheyer of the Duke Blue Devils celebrates after cutting the net following an 85-65 victory against Alabama in the Elite Eight round of the men’s NCAA basketball tournament at the Prudential Center on March 29 in Newark. (Lance King/Getty Images)
    NCAA men’s Final Four features 3 Jewish coaches
    By Ben Sales
  • The time Bob Dylan doodled a yarmulkaed man waiting for a 1 train
    By Larry Yudelson
  • A wild week of Jewish Dylanology
    By Larry Yudelson
  • A career-spanning retrospective of Jewish comics legend Will Eisner is on view at Philippe Labaune Gallery in Chelsea. (Will Eisner, courtesy of Philippe Labaune Gallery)
    Influential Jewish comics legend Will Eisner gets a retrospective in Chelsea
    By Lisa Keys
  • Kafka, davka across the GWB
    By Larry Yudelson and Lisa Keys
  • A Springsteen gig you might have missed
    By Larry Yudelson
  • Women vampires, time travel win at Jewish children’s book awards
    By Penny Schwartz
  • For sale: ‘the most complete Jewish baseball card collection in the world’
    By Jacob Gurvis
  • Are you ready for olive pasta?
    By John Jeffay
  • Elissa Slotkin sworn into U.S. Senate on Reform women’s Torah commentary
    By Philissa Cramer
  • A sample of the works from Salvador Dali’s “Aliyah, the Rebirth of Israel” series, currently on view at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. From left, “Orah, Horah,” “On the Shores of Freedom,” which depicts the Eliyahu Golomb refugee ship, and “A Moment in History” which shows David Ben Gurion reading Israel’s Declaration of Independence. (Courtesy the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center)
    Shalom, Dali!
    By Jackie Hajdenberg
  • The biggest Chanukah merch fails of the season — part 2
    By Rabbi Yael Buechler
  • The biggest Chanukah merch fails of the season — part 1
    By Rabbi Yael Buechler
  • Manischewitz scores first sports hero endorsement
    By Jacob Gurvis
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  • Mighty Sesame Co. partners with ‘Homemade’
  • The original ambulance the Katz family dedicated.
    Katz family to dedicate new Magen David Adom ambulance
  • Abbe Greenberg
    A look at ‘The Road Ahead’ in Teaneck
  • (Courtesy LOTP)
    Lubavitch on the Palisades group visits the rebbe’s ohel
  • From left: Rabbinical Assembly’s chief engagement officer, Rabbi Sheryl Katzman; Rabbi Esther Reed, Rutgers Hillel’s chief operating officer; Rabbi Paul D. Kerbel, president of the New Jersey Region of the Rabbinical Assembly; and Rabbi Jay Kornsgold, the Rabbinical Assembly’s international president.
    Rabbinical Assembly’s NJ region installs new leaders
  • Front row from left: NCJW BCS officers Elaine K. Meyerson, Bari-Lynne Schwartz, Fran Einiger, Hildy Dillon, Pauline Hecht, Paula Star, and Marilynn Friedman. Back row, from left: Marsha Sobel, Joyce Bivone, Beth Pascarello, Lois Katz Brown, Flora Perskie, Patty Siegel, Norma Goldsmith, and Hilary Eth (Courtesy NCJW)
    NCJW installs officers and honors members
  • A large crowd gathered at the Wayne library.
    Marking Juneteenth in Wayne
  • Secretary Marty Breznick, treasurer Gary Richards, assistant secretary Hildy Dillon, and financial secretary Alan Winters are in the back row. Second vice president Stacey Butler, president Michael Goldberg, and first vice president Marsha Sobel are in the front. Third vice president Steve Clark is not pictured. (Barbara Balkin)
    Temple Emeth installs new board
  • Emerson shul congregants volunteer for Family Promise
  • “Repose” by Rachelle Weisberger
    Local artist displays new work in Chelsea
  • Hank Greenberg film this weekend
  • The shelter as it looked after. (Courtesy Rockland Hillel)
    Hillel of Rockland volunteers transform Israeli bomb shelter
  • Rabbi Chaim and Sara M. Brafman
    Chabad Center of Northwest NJ celebrates 37 years on June 26
  • Toby Rosenthal, the daughter of the late Gail Hirsch Rosenthal, shovels dirt onto a tree sapling planted at Stockton University. (Bernard DeLury/Stockton University)
    Sapling from ‘Anne Frank Tree’ planted to honor Holocaust educator 
  • On Sunday June 8, Rabbi Simeon Cohen, center, was escorted into the TBS sanctuary before he was installed as the temple’s rabbi. Holding the poles, from left, are his mother Lori Cohen, his father-in-law Dr. Michael Fein, his father Harlan Cohen, and his mother-in-law Beverly Fein.  (Jerry Siskind)
    Rabbi Simeon Cohen celebrated as senior rabbi at Livingston’s Temple Beth Shalom
  • Holocaust Institute holding annual online summer book series
  • Tzofim Friendship Caravan (Courtesy JNF)
    Israeli Scouts to perform in Livingston
  • Cemetery Association to reinstall veterans memorial plaques
  • Sophia Paul places a flag on her great-grandfather’s grave. (Photos courtesy JFNNJ)
    Federation honors Memorial Day
  • Author talks about her book
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  • Mr. Hoehmann reads to schoolchildren.
    Promoting tolerance and building bridges
    By Leah Adler
  • Six13 will play at Sons of Israel in Nyack as the community celebrates Chanukah together again.
    A Chanukah party with the sounds of Six13
    By Miriam Allenson
  • Sacred Holocaust scrolls
  • Jewish community leaders and Rockland County officials announcing the security initiative. (L to R) Jewish Federation & Foundation of Rockland County CEO Ari Rosenblum; County Executive Ed Day; Rockland Security Initiative director Ethan Erlich; UJA Federation of New York President and CEO Eric Goldstein; Jewish Community Relations Council New York Community Security Initiative Executive Director Mitch Silber; Jewish Federation & Foundation of Rockland County Board Co-President Marcy Pressman; District Attorney Tom Walsh, and Sheriff’s Captain Tony DeColyse.
    ‘An Iron Dome of protection from Monsey to Montauk’
    By Larry Yudelson
  • The first person in the United States to be diagnosed with polio is an Orthodox Jewish man from Monsey. (Getty/Catherine Falls Commercial)
    First US case of polio in nearly a decade diagnosed
    By Jacob Henry
  • Scott Richman, left, and Ari Rosenblum
    Man charged in drawing swastikas in Monsey synagogue as questions remain
    By Larry Yudelson
  • From left, Jessica Milstein, national director of Israel Bonds’ Women’s Division; Rockland general chair, Sharon Sasson; Rockland Women’s Division chair Pam Greenspan; Tovah Feldshuh; event co-chair Marilyn Soffer; and Lee Schwartz, Israel Bonds’ executive director for Metro NJ and Rockland/Upstate NY. (Photos by Jeff Karg)
    Israel Bonds Rockland Women’s Division has gala brunch
  • Yitzchok Spivak with the other top scorers in the 2022 International Bible Quiz in Jerusalem. (Sceenshot)
    Tackling the Bible Quiz
    By Abigail Klein Leichman
  • A Jewish agency volunteer teaches dance to refugee children at a Jewish Agency hotel in Warsaw.
    As war rages in Ukraine, another visit with the helpers
    By Larry Yudelson
  • Hillel of Rockland delivers
  • Mindy Sayer, representing the Makom religious school, receives the Chromebooks from men’s club co-presidents Eric Zweigbaum, left, Bruce Yore, and Mitch Spiegel
    Rockland shul donates Chromebooks to religious school
  • Scenes from the meta movie “Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen.”
    From automats to Anatevka
    By Curt Schleier
  • Jerry Chazen
    Remembering Jerry Chazen
    By Joanne Palmer
  • Virginia Norfleet and Andrea Winograd.
    ‘Better Together’
    By Larry Yudelson
  • Left, these large shackles, made in the 17th and 18th century were found in Haverstraw, along with smaller ones designed for women and children. They display the cruelty of slavery. Chains and cotton are markers of enslavement (Photos courtesy Virginia Norfleet Collection)
    Honoring Black history
  • Rockland County sisterhood honorees, top row, from left, Eileen Nekrich and Shari Winkler, both from Congregation Shir Shalom; and bottom row, Jill Degen from the New City Jewish Center and Diane Goldstein from the Orangetown Jewish Center.
    Women’s League honored four Rockland women 
  • Isamu Noguchi’s Momo Taro stands in Storm King.
    Storm King: Where sculpture reigns supreme
    By Miriam Allenson
  • Erin Santana (right) at an event marking the opening of an exhibit about the history of Brownsville, produced by local youth. Monifa Edwards and Veronica Gee (third and fourth from left) were students there and then.
    Remembering the NYC teacher’s strike of ’68
    By Larry Yudelson
  • Leslie Goldress leads a hybrid class at the Rockland Jewish federation.
    Staying hybrid in Rockland
    By Larry Yudelson
  • Hillel of Rockland
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