Israelis stage gigantic mass song for Independence Day

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“This is what democracy looks like — Three generations marching,” Charlotte Bennett Schoen says; here, at the 2016 Women’s March in Washington, she’s joined by her daughter Lindsay Schoen and her granddaughter Capri Gigante.

Call for justice

By Joanne Palmer

Englewood’s Charlotte Bennett Schoen

From left, building committee co-chair Ary Freilich, JHAL president Peter Martin, Jewish Home Family president and CEO Carol Silver Elliott, president emeritus Charles P. Berkowitz, Jewish Home At Rockleigh president JoAnn Hassan Perlman, building committee co-chair Bob Peckar, Jewish Home Foundation president Jon Furer, and Jewish Home Family chair Carol K. Silberstein.

The Jewish Home at Rockleigh breaks new ground

By Joanne Palmer

It begins work on the Charles P. Berkowitz Center for Rehabilitation Excellence with a celebration

From left, Beth El’s Cantor Elizabeth Goldmann and Rabbi David Widzer and Beth Or’s Rabbi Noah Fabricant and Cantor Sarah Silverberg.

Merging congregations take on a new building and a new name

By Lois Goldrich

Beth El and Beth Or commit to ‘reimagining’ the Jewish community

Noa Yechezkel-Lubin during her summer internship with NASA.

Where no Tenafly High student has gone before

By Larry Yudelson

Israeli with local roots interns at NASA and helps find exoplanets

Rachel Oliker

Dating in Jerusalem

By Rachel Oliker

What it’s like to work with a matchmaker in Israel

d'var torah

Rabbi David Bockman

Haazinu: The poem is a port in any storm

A man and his sukkah

The concept of God has been up for discussion since the beginning of time. For a little kid, the thought of God can be quite overwhelming. “Hashem is here, Hashem is there, Hashem is truly everywhere. Up, up, down, down, right, left and all around.... Continue Reading

Ashraf Marwan — played by Marwan Kenzari — calls the Israeli Embassy in London. (Photos by Netflix)

‘The Angel’

By Curt Schleier

The Hunter Synagogue, also known as Congregation Kol Yisroyal Anshei Hunter, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Hunter’s gatherers

By Joanne Palmer

Local rabbis bring holy days to historic upstate synagogue

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There Is No Simcha Without Good Wine

Our Sages write that wine causes the heart of Man to rejoice.

The Old Queens building at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. (Wikimedia Commons)

Education Department reopens probe of anti-Semitism allegations at Rutgers

Local institutions get security grants

By Larry Yudelson

The summer of my discontent

By Jonathan E. Lazarus

Laurence Fine addresses a March for Our Lives gun control rally in Hackensack on March, 24, 2018.

‘We’ve had enough’

By Lois Goldrich

Student activist works to end gun violence

Senior presidential adviser Jared Kushner, third from left, and special representative for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt, second from left, meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on June 22, 2018. (Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem)

Jason Greenblatt of Teaneck talks about peace

D'var Torah

Dean Rachel Friedman

Shabbat Shuva: The scapegoat ritual of Yom Kippur

Mirror, mirror, on the wall

My grandmother always used to say, “If we could only see ourselves as others see us…” Like the woman who walks into shul, tossing her hair like she is in a shampoo commercial, but has a huge hole in her tights that she is... Continue Reading

Hershey Felder portrays Irving Berlin from a young composer to a frail centenarian.

‘Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin’ celebrates great Jewish songwriter

Wishing you a high-flying 5779

By Larry Yudelson

Sen. Robert Menendez, left, and Dr. Ben Chouake

Norpac has Bob Menendez’s back

By Larry Yudelson

New Jersey senator lauded for opposition to the Iran nuclear deal

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Paul McCartney says he never meant to offend Jews with ‘Hey Jude’

By Gabe Friedman

Tal Flicker of Israel at the Judo World Championship in Budapest, Aug. 28, 2017. (Rok Rakun/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Abu Dhabi says Jews can do judo

Kids these (high holy) days

By Larry Yudelson

Miss Liberty and the bottle battle

By Josefin Dolsten / JTA

Fast like a pirate

By Larry Yudelson

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Scammed on the way to Uman

By Larry Yudelson

KFC declares Israel finger-lickin’ good

Titanic victim’s Hebrew-letter watch sells for $57,500

Amsterdam’s ‘Anne & Frank’ bakery to change name

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Religious school

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Sun 23

Spa time in the sukkah

September 23 , 3:00 pm

Sun 23

Concert

September 23 , 4:00 pm

Sun 23

Erev Sukkot

September 23 , 6:00 pm

Mon 24

Sukkot

September 24 , 10:30 am