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This is Cassville Crossroads Historic District in Jackson Township, on September 9, 2012.
New Jersey town agrees to repeal ordinance allegedly aimed at keeping out yeshivas
By Ron Kampeas
Putin speaks at the 2019 Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum. (Presidential Press and Information Office)
What happened at the Russian Davos?
By Joanne Palmer
Naftuli Moster, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Yaffed, speaks at a news conference on July 24, 2019. (Yaffed)
Naftuli Moster steps down as head of group battling yeshivas over secular education
By Julia Gergely
Staff and students gather at the Academies at Gerard Berman Day School in Oakland
‘Nobody wanted to see this happen’
By Ellen Braunstein
Michael Goldsmith speaks at the Sharsheret barbecue; he stands between his wife, Joy Goldsmith, and one of his three daughters, Amanda Goldsmith Fein. (zmargstudios)
August 10, 2022, 6:59 pm
Strengthening links in the chain
Sharsheret, a group that supports women with cancer and their families, hosts in-person barbecue
By Miryam Z. Wahrman and Ph.D.
Noam Putterman, left, and Bar-Ilan master’s student Khalil Srouji look at B-cells in the meninges in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. (Bar-Ilan University)
August 10, 2022, 6:58 pm
Hands-on science at Bar Ilan
28 highly motivated Orthodox college students, many local, talk about their summer internships
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Sidney Gussen works at the oven. (Josh Lipowsky)
August 10, 2022, 6:57 pm
Pizza at the nexus of art and science
Teaneck’s Sidney Gussen, 12, raises money for Chesed 24/7 with outdoor oven wizardry
By Josh Lipowsky
This residental building once stood in Borodyanka, Ukraine, before the Russians bombed it during the invasion.
August 10, 2022, 6:56 pm
The Global Game of Thrones— winter is coming
Alexander Smukler looks at the war in Ukraine, and the larger implications
By Joanne Palmer
Happy campers at Nah-Jee-Wah
August 10, 2022, 6:55 pm
Heigh ho, heigh ho, it’s off to camp they went!
Rabbi Yanklowitz is at a rally for asylum seekers.
August 3, 2022, 5:57 pm
Just Torah
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz to speak in Englewood
By Larry Yudelson
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg
August 3, 2022, 5:56 pm
‘The Triumph of Life’
Local rabbis talk about their six months of study with Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, and he talks about his work
By Joanne Palmer
Franci Steinberg, left, Shelly Wimpfheimer, and Rabbi Jordan Millstein
August 3, 2022, 5:55 pm
‘They’re very cute — none of them know how to cook’
Local clergy — and sous chefs, who do know how — join a cook-off to encourage healthy eating
By Ellen Braunstein
Jewish community leaders and Rockland County officials announcing the security initiative. (L to R) Jewish Federation & Foundation of Rockland County CEO Ari Rosenblum; County Executive Ed Day; Rockland Security Initiative director Ethan Erlich; UJA Federation of New York President and CEO Eric Goldstein; Jewish Community Relations Council New York Community Security Initiative Executive Director Mitch Silber; Jewish Federation & Foundation of Rockland County Board Co-President Marcy Pressman; District Attorney Tom Walsh, and Sheriff’s Captain Tony DeColyse.
August 3, 2022, 5:54 pm
‘An Iron Dome of protection from Monsey to Montauk’
Rockland Jewish Federation launches security initiative with help from NYC federation
By Larry Yudelson
Dr. Jacob Ari Lebendz is the new Gross Center head.
July 27, 2022, 5:57 pm
Ramapo College names Jersey native to head Gross Center  
Dr. Jacob Ari Labendz is a specialist in post-war Czechoslovakia and its Jews
By Larry Yudelson
The view through the monument shows the people gathered to honor Raoul Wallenberg.
July 27, 2022, 5:56 pm
‘What can one man do?’
Remembering the extraordinary WWII rescuer Raoul Wallenberg
By Ellen Braunstein
Dylan Zajac is at the Computers 4 People office in Hoboken.(Dylan Zajac)
July 27, 2022, 5:55 pm
Computers 4 People
Hoboken college student wins Diller award for nonprofit entrepreneurship
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, talk to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during their meeting in Sochi, Russia, on Oct. 22, 2021. (Yevgeny Biyatov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
July 27, 2022, 5:54 pm
‘The golden age is over’
Alexander Smukler looks at Russia’s moves against Israel, toward Iran, and at its Jewish community
By Joanne Palmer
The first person in the United States to be diagnosed with polio is an Orthodox Jewish man from Monsey. (Getty/Catherine Falls Commercial)
July 27, 2022, 5:53 pm
First US case of polio in nearly a decade diagnosed
The victim is an unvaccinated Orthodox man from Monsey
By Jacob Henry
July 27, 2022, 5:52 pm
One Israel Fund celebrates summer as it raises funds to support its work
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