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An Israeli and an Iranian face off in a judo match in “Tatami.”
Can an Iranian fight an Israeli?
By Curt Schleier
‘Tatami,’ a film about judo, explores such a confrontation
Assemblywoman Garnet Hall, JESPY board president Dr. Ahadi Bugg-Levine, South Orange Mayor Sheena Collum, and JESPY executive director Audrey Winkler. (Elise Campbell Photography)
JESPY breaks ground on its new center
Daddy and daughters on the beach.
‘Hope you like these socks’
Deb Breslow stands behind her Aunt Ruth.
More than just an epitaph
By Deb Breslow
Israel attacked targets in Iran, including in Tehran, as shown here, on the morning of Friday, June 13. (WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)
June 19, 2025, 1:19 pm
A lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinion of sheep
By Joanne Palmer
Lenny Mandel, right, with his friend Seymour Shaw.
June 19, 2025, 12:54 pm
‘Say it loud’
Our correspondent recalls his brushes with antisemitism
By Cantor/Rabbi Lenny Mandel
These are the adult b’nai mitzvah students at Shomrei Emunah.
June 19, 2025, 12:46 pm
Being very adult about b’nai mitzvah class
What it’s like to help grown-ups prepare for their delayed rite of passage
By Merrill Silver
Cellphones have upended student life, as this stock photo shows. (Freepik)
June 19, 2025, 12:40 pm
Several Jewish high schools ban cellphones
Collaborative decision is aimed at making students ‘fully present’
By Abigail Klein Leichman
NASCK’s director of outreach and Project Last Kindness, Yael Davidowitz, is at the lectern.
June 12, 2025, 9:59 am
‘We act with respect for a body that housed a soul’
Participants report on the Women’s Chevra Kadisha leadership conference in Iselin
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Mixed Metaphors 19 (All art and photos By Miriam Stern)
June 12, 2025, 9:58 am
Selling art, feeding the hungry
Miriam Stern of Teaneck offers work online; proceeds go to charity
By Joanne Palmer
Deb Breslow stands behind her Aunt Ruth.
June 12, 2025, 9:57 am
More than just an epitaph
Looking back at loving and losing the last of her generation
By Deb Breslow
Daddy and daughters on the beach.
June 12, 2025, 9:55 am
‘Hope you like these socks’
An ode to my daughters’ father on Father’s Day
Assemblywoman Garnet Hall, JESPY board president Dr. Ahadi Bugg-Levine, South Orange Mayor Sheena Collum, and JESPY executive director Audrey Winkler. (Elise Campbell Photography)
June 12, 2025, 9:53 am
JESPY breaks ground on its new center
An Israeli and an Iranian face off in a judo match in “Tatami.”
June 11, 2025, 9:54 am
Can an Iranian fight an Israeli?
‘Tatami,’ a film about judo, explores such a confrontation
By Curt Schleier
Robin Siegel, left, talks to another parent at the retreat. (Stefanie Diamond)
June 5, 2025, 9:59 am
‘It feels like home’
Local Orthodox parents of LGBTQ children find community at Eshel retreat
By Joanne Palmer
Linn-Baker’s bed-ridden character reclines among his fellow performers in “The Imaginary Invalid” at New World Stages.
June 5, 2025, 9:58 am
‘Just put in the work’
After 50 years, actor Mark Linn-Baker continues to build on the good, the bad, and the best
By Curt Schleier
June 5, 2025, 9:57 am
Rabbis, cantors confront preschool controversy 
By Joanne Palmer
Mr. Smukler, center, Dr. Chlenov, and the German Jewish community’s interpreter are in West Berlin together in 1989.
June 5, 2025, 9:56 am
‘My Soviet passport told me that I am a Jew’
Alexander Smukler reflects on antisemitism, communism, and the drama of his son’s brit milah
By Joanne Palmer
Recently, Mr. Foxman, left, talks about the Jewish world; his conversation is with attorney Doron Gopstein for the Manhattan Jewish Historial Initiatives’s Hall of Fame.
June 5, 2025, 9:55 am
‘This is the time for us to come together’
Abe Foxman looks at the situation today with a combination of alarm and hope
By Joanne Palmer
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