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A family of elephants considers its options as a storm approaches, somewhere between Tanzania and Kenya. (Ned Soltz)
The world is full of beauty and wonder
By Joanne Palmer
Two local rabbis capture images far from the bimah
Lt. Col. Orr Ben Yehuda was the first woman to command an infantry battalion in the IDF Border Defense Corps. This portrait is by Dudu Palma.
Heroines of October 7
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Thank you, Mom
By Samuel L. Davis
Abe Foxman 1940-2026
By Joanne Palmer
A family of elephants considers its options as a storm approaches, somewhere between Tanzania and Kenya. (Ned Soltz)
June 11, 2026, 2:11 pm
The world is full of beauty and wonder
Two local rabbis capture images far from the bimah
By Joanne Palmer
May 28, 2026, 10:00 am
Remembering Abe Barzelay
Musician, engineer, inventor, perfectionist, genius
By Joanne Palmer
May 14, 2026, 10:00 am
Abe Foxman 1940-2026
Saying goodbye to a giant, and a local hero
By Joanne Palmer
May 7, 2026, 10:00 am
Thank you, Mom
Sam Davis remembers his mother, who died this year at 107
By Samuel L. Davis
Lt. Col. Orr Ben Yehuda was the first woman to command an infantry battalion in the IDF Border Defense Corps. This portrait is by Dudu Palma.
April 30, 2026, 10:00 am
Heroines of October 7
JFNNJ displays images of women who fought back
By Abigail Klein Leichman
April 23, 2026, 10:00 am
Daily Torah texts — with some help from AI
Local entrepreneur with art background sends free messages
By Joanne Palmer
Glenn Cohen
April 16, 2026, 10:00 am
How do you debrief a hostage?
Glenn Cohen’s winding career prepared him for that task
By Joanne Palmer
April 9, 2026, 10:00 am
How perfect was it?
A Jewish writer looks back at life in Radburn
By Bob Brody
ABOUT THE COVER: Jewish Scouts stand in front of a poster of the Kotel in Jerusalem. (Courtesy of Alan Smason)
April 1, 2026, 10:00 am
Scouting America gets a new leader
He’s Jewish, and he lives in Hoboken
By Joanne Palmer
March 19, 2026, 10:00 am
Creating Imaginative Seders
Seder impresario Murray Spiegel explains how to do it
By Joanne Palmer
ON THE COVER: Students act out the story of the hero Japanese ambassador Chiune Sugihara, who saved many Jews from death, in 2024’s Holocaust play, “Choose Life,” at Yavneh. (Yavneh Academy)
March 12, 2026, 10:00 am
At Yavneh, remembering with theater
Local couple endows school’s Holocaust fund
By Joanne Palmer
ON THE COVER: Israeli security and rescue forces are in Beit Shemesh in central Israel on March 1. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 5, 2026, 10:00 am
War in Iran – and how it touches Israel
Impressions as the war begins
By Joanne Palmer
After moving patients underground, Sheba Medical Center’s neurological rehabilitation team dressed up on erev Purim to demonstrate that a good environment is also part of the treatment. “Rehab requires professionalism and patience, but sometimes also a good costume that does the heart good,” they posted on Facebook.
March 5, 2026, 9:59 am
This is what resilience looks like
Missiles can’t defeat the Israeli spirit or its sushi bars
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Various social media memes compare the death of Iran’s supreme leader to the downfall of Haman, the villain of the Purim story. (JTA)
March 5, 2026, 9:58 am
Death of Iranian leader just before Purim revives Book of Esther parallels
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Farid Dardashti, Younes’ son and Galeet and Danielle’s father, sings in this picture taken in Iran in the 1950s. (Courtesy Dardashti family)
March 5, 2026, 9:57 am
My Jewish grandfather was known as the Nightingale of Iran 
Could the country he knew be within reach?
By Galeet Dardashti
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