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Alisa would have wanted this
By Joanne Palmer
Steve Flatow talks about program supporting Ethiopian-Israeli women
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Merrill and Andy Silver are on a glacier in Iceland.
This is what sustained us
By Merrill Silver
We’ll always have Iceland and Copenhagen
Hillel, Hannah, Naama, Rena, and Joshua Steinberg are at Naama’s recent eighth-grade graduation.
‘I really felt we belonged in Israel’
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Meet two Bergen County families making aliyah this summer
A Ukrainian soldier gestures up toward a drone.
Deep strikes — who’s behind them?
By Joanne Palmer
Some of the 450 drone-makers changing the trajectory of the war are Jewish
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Guest scholar in Teaneck
Friday, June 26, at about 7:30 p.m.
Bernie Stahl
Talking about humility
Saturday, June 27, 6:55 p.m.
Wayne garage sale
Sunday, June 28, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Dr. Nechama Price
Yoetzet halacha program
Tuesday, June 30, 7:45 p.m.
Shul open house/BBQ in Teaneck
Friday, July 3, 6–7 p.m.
Shabbat in Teaneck
Friday, July 3, time varies
Marking Independence Day in Ridgefield Park
Saturday, July 4, 2:30 p.m.
Havdalah online
Saturday, July 4, 9:45 p.m.
Barbecue in Woodcliff Lake
Tuesday, July 7, 7 p.m.
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Micah Cohen, Erez Kahan, Perri Korine, and Albert Babayev (Vladimir Badikov)
IDF combat medic tells her story at Israel Bonds dinner
Incoming president Joan Birnbaum, second from left, with officers and directors being installed. (Courtesy NCJW)
NCJW Rockland installs officers
From left: United Hatzalah chairman Mark Gerson; his wife, Rabbi Erica Gerson; UH board member Alex Witkoff; investor and sports team owner David Blitzer; former hostage Bar Kupershtein; Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer, and United Hatzalah founder and president Eli Beer. (Courtesy United Hatzalah)
United Hatzalah holds NYC gala
Aimee Ginsburg Bikel (Courtesy TBT)
Theodore Bikel’s widow speaks in Wayne
Pictured, back row, from left, are Jill Kantor, financial secretary; Marc Chelemer, treasurer; Greg Janoff, assistant financial officer; and Amanda Eastman, assistant secretary. Cantor Dubinsky, Alan Winters, first vice president; Marsha Sobel, president; Steve Clark, third vice president; and Rabbi Sirbu, are pictured in the front. Stacey Butler, second vice president, and Hildy Dillon, secretary, are not pictured.
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Joanne Palmer
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Honoring immigrants
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Rewarding your enemies while punishing your friends
Rosanne Skopp
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One cheer for Donald Trump
David Horovitz
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Trump’s deal is a catastrophic capitulation
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About 18 years ago, we did construction on our house. When it was finished, my parents took us to a store that will remain nameless to buy us a couch and a recliner. Because it was 2007, brown was the “in” color. Now, apparently, it is all shades of gray, but I digress. We picked out a recliner that accented the couch; Husband #1 thought it was comfortable, and that was that. Both my father and Husband #1’s father enjoyed reclining in the recliner over the years. For some...Continue Reading
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Last Sunday, thousands of people, many of them waving Israeli flags, lined Fifth Avenue in Manhattan for the Israel Day parade. This year, the parade’s theme was “Proud Americans, Proud Zionists.” It might well have the biggest turnout ever for the parade, which first marched up Fifth in...Continue Reading
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  • Knicks coach Red Holzman is on the sidelines during game action against the Philadelphia 76ers on March 5, 1977. (Getty Images)
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  • This pair of finials once adorned the wooden rollers of a Torah scroll. (Photos Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw)
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    IDF combat medic tells her story at Israel Bonds dinner
  • Incoming president Joan Birnbaum, second from left, with officers and directors being installed. (Courtesy NCJW)
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  • From left: United Hatzalah chairman Mark Gerson; his wife, Rabbi Erica Gerson; UH board member Alex Witkoff; investor and sports team owner David Blitzer; former hostage Bar Kupershtein; Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer, and United Hatzalah founder and president Eli Beer. (Courtesy United Hatzalah)
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  • Aimee Ginsburg Bikel (Courtesy TBT)
    Theodore Bikel’s widow speaks in Wayne
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  • A self-portrait of Rachel Banai
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  • Student Cantor Carly Levin Santalone is with Rabbi Brian Beal, back right, and members of the committee who chose her for the position last year. (Courtesy TBT)
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  • Artwork by Kathy Eisler (Courtesy JCCOTP)
    Inspirational artwork on display at Kaplen JCC
  • Dean Rachel Friedman, left, Rabbi Hayyim Angel, and Dr. Yael Zeigler I(Photos courtesy of Lamdeinu)
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    Marking the rebbe’s yahrzeit
  • Judith Distler, left, and Elaine K. Meyerson (Pictures courtesy NCJW BCS)
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  • Shlomo Rosen
    Learning about Middle Eastern Food
  • (Photo courtesy JCCP/CBT)
    Feeding needy children
  • RVCC Holocaust Institute soon to start its annual online summer book series
  • Jack Kirby, z”l (Courtesy AJHS)
    Lower East Side street honors Jack Kirby 
  • Rick Hyne receives his award.
    Honoring volunteers at Wayne shul
  • Rep. Frank Pallone Jr.
    NJ congressman reintroduces resolution honoring 130  years of Jewish War Veterans
  • Clockwise from top left, Ambassador Ron Dermer, Bar Kupershtein, Modi Rosenfeld, Casey Lutnick, and Brandon Lutnick (Photos courtesy United Hatzalah)
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  • Clockwise for top left, Wendy Kosakoff, Stuart Breslow and Dr. Anne Miller, Lynn and Steve Chaiken, and Dr. Michael Robinson
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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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