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Allegra Goodman (Joshua Meyer)
Old characters, new lives
By Curt Schleier
Novelist Allegra Goodman talks about ‘Apple Cake’ growing into ‘This Is Not About Us’
CBS/FLJC lay leaders went to JTS for Rabbi Bloostein’s ordination: from left, Carol Marcus, Eitan Bloostein, Neil Garflinkle, and Gail Rottenstrich.
Finding God in community
By Joanne Palmer
Lenny Mandel stands in front of the motorcycle, complete with Iraeli flag, that his friend Bobby rode up to West Point.
Attention! HUA at West Point
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Jaime and Susan Weiss celebrate their MDA ambulance donation with their Boca Raton community. (Photos by American Friends of Magen David Adom)
Donation fulfills dad’s dream
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Jaime and Susan Weiss celebrate their MDA ambulance donation with their Boca Raton community. (Photos by American Friends of Magen David Adom)
July 29, 2026, 2:58 pm
Donation fulfills dad’s dream
Fort Lee family presents ambulance to Magen David Adom
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Lenny Mandel stands in front of the motorcycle, complete with Iraeli flag, that his friend Bobby rode up to West Point.
July 29, 2026, 2:57 pm
Attention! HUA at West Point
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
CBS/FLJC lay leaders went to JTS for Rabbi Bloostein’s ordination: from left, Carol Marcus, Eitan Bloostein, Neil Garflinkle, and Gail Rottenstrich.
July 29, 2026, 2:56 pm
Finding God in community
Congregation B'nai Sholom/Fair Lawn Jewish Center welcomes its new rabbi
By Joanne Palmer
Allegra Goodman (Joshua Meyer)
July 29, 2026, 2:55 pm
Old characters, new lives
Novelist Allegra Goodman talks about ‘Apple Cake’ growing into ‘This Is Not About Us’
By Curt Schleier
Dr. Eric Fremed is the chair and Katie Katz is the executive director of Teach NJ.
July 23, 2026, 9:58 am
Teach NJ aims for parity
OU-supported group scores dollars for nonpublic schools in tough budget year
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Jackie Tohn plays an out-of-work singer who suddenly finds herself a counselor at Camp Daveed.
July 23, 2026, 9:57 am
A summer at Camp Daveed
The director talks about comedy in ‘The Floaters’
By Curt Schleier
Students from the ORT Digital Skills Academy visited local Bulgarian television networks as part of the instruction curriculum to learn more about pre- and post-production, sound and visual editing, and video skills.
July 23, 2026, 9:56 am
The camera and the future of Jewish life
ORT stresses the importance of education, independence, dignity, and hope
By Dov Ben-Shimon
Nicholas’s dad Thomas, left, and his uncle, Stephen, were partners in the NOLA law firm of Monroe & Lemann.
July 23, 2026, 9:55 am
Born Jewish, becoming Jewish
Nicholas Lemann’s move from New Orleans to community
By Curt Schleier
The players from Nahariya with staffers at the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey. (All photos courtesy JFNNJ)
July 16, 2026, 9:57 am
Building community across the sea
JFNNJ hosts teen basketball players from Nahariya
By Laura Freeman
This photo, by Rabbi Aviv Siegel, is the cover of “You Shall Love.”
July 16, 2026, 9:56 am
‘You Shall Love’
Academy for Jewish Religion puts out a supplement for Tu B’Av
By Joanne Palmer
Lenny Mandel first played Tevye in 1986.
July 16, 2026, 9:55 am
Tevya in church
Everyone learns when you teach ‘Fiddler’
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
“A Walk on the Moon” is set in the Catskills during the summer of 1969. (Joan Marcus)
July 16, 2026, 9:54 am
Summer outside the city
Pamela Gray talks about “A Walk on the Moon” as she turns it into a Broadway musical
By Curt Schleier
Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher always spent time with Russian Jews when she visited the USSR. Here, in 1990, from left, are Mr. Smukler, Valery Engel, and Roman Gefter.
July 16, 2026, 9:53 am
History does sometimes echo
A look at antisemitism in the Soviet Union then — and at home now
By Joanne Palmer
These are the police officers at the temporarily renamed New York/New Jersey Stadium who helped Rabbi Boteach.
July 9, 2026, 9:57 am
Hatred at the stadium
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach describes his afternoon at a World Cup game
By Joanne Palmer
Bob Brody now, and when he was in high school.
July 9, 2026, 9:56 am
Growing up in Radburn
What Facebook recently told me about antisemitism in my hometown
By Bob Brody
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