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From left, Jim Lowe the production’s music director, Michael Korie, who wrote its libretto, and Ricky Ian Gordon (Diana DuMelle)
‘The Garden of the Finzi-Continis’
By Curt Schleier
Folksbiene’s Teaneck-based artistic director partners with New York City Opera for premiere
Esther Kook and her husband, Mark, are at the theater, just before omicron surged.
Venturing back to Broadway
By Esther Kook
This rendering shows what Touro’s new building will look like when the renovation is complete.
Touro moves to Times Square
By Joanne Palmer
Jason Shames, left, and Dr. Idana Goldberg
Who are we now?
By Larry Yudelson
Evgeni Krosnopolski and Hailey Kops are China-bound. (KrPhotogs Photography LLC)
January 19, 2022, 5:54 pm
Staying connected to Judaism — and following your dreams
Skaters from West Orange and Hackensack to represent Israel in the Winter Olympics
By Jordana Benami
Rabbi Martin Freedman, right, and Rabbi Israel Dresner, center, are taken to the Tallahassee city building where they were charged with unlawful assembly. The two of them and 10 other Freedom Riders were arrested as they attempted to eat at the Tallahassee airport in June 1961. (Getty Photos)
January 19, 2022, 5:53 pm
Remembering Rabbi Israel Dresner
The civil rights advocate, friend to Martin Luther King Jr, spent decades in two North Jersey pulpits
By Dr. Mark Gold and Hiam Simon
Bill Charlap, left, Jamie Bernstein, and Ted Chapin
January 19, 2022, 5:52 pm
Riffing on Leonard Bernstein’s theater music
Daughter Jamie and jazz pianist Bill Charlap will explain the magic at NJPAC
By Lois Goldrich
Ms. Bieler’s wall is covered in knotty pine and many photographs. The wood has to go.
January 19, 2022, 5:51 pm
The story of a photo
Are pictures about the past, the present, or the future?
By Tzivia Bieler
Isamu Noguchi’s Momo Taro stands in Storm King.
January 19, 2022, 5:50 pm
Storm King: Where sculpture reigns supreme
A retired pediatrician talks about the upstate sculpture garden’s splendors
By Miriam Allenson
Ethan Behling, Kim Schwartzman, Laura Freeman, Marin Carosia, Michal Vinar, Lois Greene, Catalina Sanchez, Marcy Needle, Andy Epstein, Sandra Greenberg, and Ariella Noveck get ready to pack socks.
January 19, 2022, 5:46 pm
JFNNJ’s sock drive warms many feet
Dan Glickman (Brian Hopkins)
January 12, 2022, 5:57 pm
Keeping it light
Former congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas talks about his new memoir and the importance of laughter
By Joanne Palmer
Congressman Josh Gottheimer speaks about antisemitism at Rutgers
January 12, 2022, 5:56 pm
Joe or Jew?
Gottheimer says an activist yelled ‘Jew’ at him; Jewish progressive activists deny it
By Larry Yudelson
Betty White is at the Academy Awards in 1989. (Alan Light/Wikimedia Commons)
January 12, 2022, 5:55 pm
Remembering Betty White — and Aunt Helen
Esther Kook
By Esther Kook
LGBTQ Jewish youth at the Jewish Queer Youth drop-in center in New York City.
January 12, 2022, 5:54 pm
Jewish Queer Youth gets $1 million grant
By Larry Yudelson
January 12, 2022, 5:52 pm
TABC head resigns abruptly
By Shira Hanau
Erin Santana (right) at an event marking the opening of an exhibit about the history of Brownsville, produced by local youth. Monifa Edwards and Veronica Gee (third and fourth from left) were students there and then.
January 12, 2022, 5:51 pm
Remembering the NYC teacher’s strike of ’68
Scholar from West Nyack revisits flashpoint in Black-Jewish relations
By Larry Yudelson
Rabbi Jonathan Knapp works with students, just before covid hit. (All photos courtesy Yavneh)
January 5, 2022, 5:58 pm
‘My heart sings’
Rabbi Jonathan Knapp reflects on his long career at Yavneh
By Joanne Palmer
Jason Shames, left, and Dr. Idana Goldberg
January 5, 2022, 5:57 pm
Who are we now?
Federation’s new community survey seeks to reach all the region’s Jews
By Larry Yudelson
Louis Weber of Englewood, second from right in black sweatpants, at the Race for Inclusion. (Courtesy of ADI)
January 5, 2022, 5:56 pm
Racing for inclusion
Local gap-year students in Israel run to benefit ADI
By Abigail Klein Leichman
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