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From left, Fran Thiessen, Miriam Rinn, Roni Blinder, and Barbara Golub are the Jewish Family and Children’s Services of Northern New Jersey’s first cohort of Cooking Companions. (JFCS)
Cooking Companions launched
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Jewish Family Services matches volunteers and elderly clients to eat, talk, and share
Shai Jaskol, left, United Hatzalah’s director of operations, and Rabbi Micah Greenland, right, flank students Rivkah Zigman, Sam Blech, Benjamin Mendelson, and Jaden Jubas. (United Hatzalah of Israel)
First adrenaline, then joy
By Lois Goldrich
Baar-Ilan University Professor Arie Zaban, left, with administrators and participants in the Summer Science Research Internship Program, including Jacob Rosenberg, middle of front row, Zachary Friedman, behind him in black shirt, and Rachel Retter, in front of the tree. (Faith Baginsky)
What did that gerbil just do?
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Burying the ashes
By Joanne Palmer
Miriam Chilton, the new COO at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, pauses during a hike at the Union for Reform Judaism’s Camp Newman.
August 22, 2019, 9:58 am
Kaplen JCC welcomes new COO
Miriam Chilton brings a wealth of experience in the Reform movement — and the business world — to Tenafly
By Joanne Palmer
A crowd gathers in the plaza at the Peter Rodino Federal Building in Newark to protest the treatment of immigrants and asylum seekers in detention centers.
August 22, 2019, 9:57 am
When silence is akin to complicity
Marking Tisha B’Av at the Peter Rodino Federal Building in Newark
By Rabbi Jordan Millstein
A doe takes time out from feeding on the vegetation to stare at the camera.
August 22, 2019, 9:56 am
Adventures in gardening
Those hostas belong to me — the deer disagree
By Jonathan E. Lazarus
Helen Gottstein — Australian by birth, Israeli by aliyah and passion for the nation — makes audience participation critical to “Four Faces of Israel.”
August 21, 2019, 6:00 pm
‘Helen, I hate you. Hug me’
‘Four Faces of Israel’ shows mutually contradictory truths about a passionately loved country
By Joanne Palmer
Counselors and campers play at Ramah Day Camp in Nyack.
August 15, 2019, 10:39 am
A summer of civic engagement
Camp Ramah Nyack addresses the present moment
By Joanne Palmer
Rabbis and federation representatives from northern Jersey gather outside Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
August 15, 2019, 10:00 am
Rabbis bridge denomination lines under the federation’s umbrella
JFNNJ follows unity mission to Israel with formation of an action committee
By Larry Yudelson
Baar-Ilan University Professor Arie Zaban, left, with administrators and participants in the Summer Science Research Internship Program, including Jacob Rosenberg, middle of front row, Zachary Friedman, behind him in black shirt, and Rachel Retter, in front of the tree. (Faith Baginsky)
August 15, 2019, 9:59 am
What did that gerbil just do?
Local summer interns pursue real science in Israel through BIU/YU program
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Shai Jaskol, left, United Hatzalah’s director of operations, and Rabbi Micah Greenland, right, flank students Rivkah Zigman, Sam Blech, Benjamin Mendelson, and Jaden Jubas. (United Hatzalah of Israel)
August 15, 2019, 9:58 am
First adrenaline, then joy
Teaneck student saves a life in Israel
By Lois Goldrich
From left, Fran Thiessen, Miriam Rinn, Roni Blinder, and Barbara Golub are the Jewish Family and Children’s Services of Northern New Jersey’s first cohort of Cooking Companions. (JFCS)
August 15, 2019, 9:57 am
Cooking Companions launched
Jewish Family Services matches volunteers and elderly clients to eat, talk, and share
By Abigail Klein Leichman
August 14, 2019, 6:00 pm
Burying the ashes
Holocaust museum in Suffern discovers human cremated remains in its archives
By Joanne Palmer
Dan Kohane wears an udeng as he plays gamelan.
August 8, 2019, 9:59 am
There are Jews on Bali?
Dan Kohane of Teaneck will describe his new community on Indonesia’s storied island
By Joanne Palmer
Last year, Aliza Pelavin, left, and Cayla Olitzky joined the demonstration. Aliza’s mother is Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster.
August 8, 2019, 9:58 am
‘She weeps in the night … she has no one to comfort her…’
Local Jewish groups to mark Tisha B’Av with demonstrations in Newark, Elizabeth
By Joanne Palmer
Rabbi Jack Bemporad and Pope Francis
August 8, 2019, 9:57 am
‘I feel I have something to teach’
Rabbi Jack Bemporad launches Congregation Micah in Cresskill
By Larry Yudelson
Eli Szafranski, Rabbi Benny Berlin, and Robin Tassler talk about issues that affect the lives of Orthodox students at Queens College.
August 8, 2019, 9:56 am
How to be frum at Queens College
Teaneck rabinnic couple guides OU campus outreach program
By Larry Yudelson
Rabbi Yosef Orenstein, the head of Valley Chabad’s Teen Leadership Initiative, sits with students as they debate issues. (Valley Chabad)
August 8, 2019, 9:55 am
High-level learning and college credit
Chabad and YU team up in “win-win” program for public-school teens 
By Lois Goldrich
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