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Conscious unplugging

By Larry Yudelson

Local day schools suggest new rules about detaching from electronic media at home

Text and context on the High Holy Days

By Joanne Palmer

Rabbanit Shani Taragin teaches across Teaneck for the OU’s Women’s Initiative of Inspiration

Miri Farkovits, left, looks directly at the camera as her family hugs her.

‘Now you know my Miri’

By Lisa Rosenberg Farkovits

A mother remembers her 9-year-old hug-loving, life-challenged daughter

The war-ravaged interior of the synagogue in Brno.

Remembering 1939

By Charles Ticho

The last Rosh Hashanah in the ‘Small Temple’ in Brno, Czechoslovakia

The center’s staff sits togther under a big red heart.

Designing for IsraAID

By Lois Goldrich

Local volunteer hits the ground running at refugee center in Greece

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Jews, immigration, and American ideals

By Joanne Palmer

Scholar’s pre-Selichot talk in New City examines the legacies and values of once-new arrivals

William Shatner’s Captain Kirk is split in two — his good and his bad inclinations — in a scene from “The Enemy Within” episode.

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Back to the future

By Larry Yudelson

Ridgewood’s Rabbi David Fine welcomes Selichot on ‘Star Trek’s’ final frontier

Steve Fulop cradles his newborn son, Jaxon, last year. Jaxon was born in Jersey City, but significantly after 2004, so his birth certificate is fine. (Steve Fulop)

‘That birth certificate is unacceptable’

By Joanne Palmer

Jersey City finally regaining authority to issue official documents

It’s complicated and very filtered

By Laurie Siegel

Banji Ganchrow

Four eyes are always better than just two

I started wearing glasses in second grade. For some reason, I thought it was a very exciting addition to my already classic look and sense of fashion. There is nothing more attractive than an 11-year-old girl with “Battlestar Galactica” glasses, braces, orthopedic shoes (for flat... Continue Reading

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Rabbi Paul Kurland

Yearning for real peace … just like Jeremiah

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Rabbi Elchanan Weinbach

Radical amazement at the world’s beauty is a God connection

Analysis

Marla Cohen

Straight shooting for 21st-century Jews

Analysis

Rabbi Lindsey Healey-Pollack

Ki Tavo: Ritual, inclusiveness, and human dignity

The Jerusalem Bird Observatory in central Jerusalem brings people and birds together.

For the birds

By Joanne Palmer

Jerusalem Bird Observatory to be celebrated in Tenafly

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Finding the Perfect Passover Program

Trusting the Right Pesach Reviews!

IsraelAID arrived in the Bahamas as soon as Hurricane Dorian abated.

Doing good around the world

By Lois Goldrich

IsraAID comes to help — and stays

Implementing her husband’s vision

Leah stands with her husband, Avi, in Teaneck, before they made aliyah.

When ‘some day’ becomes ‘today’

By Leah Herzog

What it feels like to make aliyah from Bergen County

Amos Hausner, left, stands with David-Seth Kirshner. The two met when Rabbi Kirshner went to Israel on a trip sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey; as a result of that trip, Mr. Klausner will speak at Rabbi Kirshner’s shul.

What the Eichmann trial means

By Joanne Palmer

Amos Hausner, son of Eichmann prosecutor Gideon Hausner, talks about his father, Eichmann, and international law in Closter

Israel not in black and white

By Joanne Palmer

First Arab Israeli Rhodes scholar to speak in Teaneck

Hundreds of people organized by a Jewish group called Never Again Action protest outside an ICE facility in Elizabeth on June 30, 2019.

‘New Jersey’s hidden shame’

By Larry Yudelson

Selichot services in Emerson to focus on local immigrant detainees

‘Please explain this weird language’

By Joanne Palmer

Temple Emanuel of Franklin Lakes looks at the very Jewish Mad magazine on leil Selichot

On Tu b’Av — it started on the evening of August 15 this year — people gathered around a bonfire in front of Rabbi Scheff’s house on the Orangetown Jewish Center campus as evening drew in. (Rabbi Craig Scheff)

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Sitting around with s’mores

By Joanne Palmer

Orangeburg Jewish Center lights a bonfire and fires up a guitar for Selichot

‘You will not silence us’

By Evan Karzhevsky

Banji Ganchrow

#makemomthinagain

Four-letter words are banned in many houses. But the one four letter word that is said over and over again, in homes across the country and across the world, is D-I-E-T. I first heard this word as a chubby young girl. My mother would... Continue Reading

Ronnie Streichler, standing in her workshop, holds a bowl she made from drywall and caulking.

Making art from trash

By Joanne Palmer

Ronnie Streichler of Fort Lee recycles almost everything

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Shawn Green, playing for the Toronto Blue Jays in 1998, was one of three outfielders named to an all-time Jewish baseball team. (Jonathan Kirn/Allsport/Getty Images)

Is this the all-time Jewish baseball team roster?

By Gabe Friedman

2,600-year-old seal discovered in Jerusalem

By Marcy Oster

A Popeye surprise

By Larry Yudelson

Jerusalem tourist charged $2,800 for shawarma platter

By Marcy Oster

The scare of the otter that bit them

By Larry Yudelson

Left, X & Y, Siberian Huskies (3 m/o), Dizengoff St., Tel Aviv, Israel. “They’re opposites. X is dominant, Y is submissive.” Chucha, Boston Terrier (3 m/o), Schlomo Right, HaMelekh & King George St., Tel Aviv, Israel. “I’m not really familiar with dogs, but she came into my life and everything became the opposite. She’s great.”

Instagram’s Dogist comes to Israel

By Gabe Friedman

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