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Ira Miller is scouting for 12 competitive young tennis players for the games in Israel next summer.
Finally netting a 2-decade dream
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Tenafly man to coach under-16 Maccabi USA tennis team this summer
Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu
Healing the world, one network at a time
By Lois Goldrich
Adam Katz, left, Dan Mitzner, Dr. Steven Stein, and Rabbi Ami Neuman
Moonlight sonata
By Larry Yudelson
Temima Baker, Orit Strassman, Belana Dworkis, and Danielle Dworkis hold the birthday kits they packed and will donate to a local food pantry.
Back-to-shul creativity grants
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Ms. Bierler and her grandson Gershon Kwalbrun stand happily together at the Grand Canyon this summer.
August 4, 2021, 5:58 pm
The evolving grandmother
By Tzivia Bieler
Rabbi David Fine took this selfie on a trip to Israel with the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey this summer; that’s when he thought through his Law Committee paper.
August 4, 2021, 5:57 pm
Emergency Zooming
Local Conservative rabbi considers when a minyan should be in person
By Joanne Palmer
From left, Bar-Ilan master’s student Ariel Simon, Eliana Farkas, Ph.D., student Shalhevet Azriel, and Dr. Nissan Yissachar. (Ayelet Pearl)
August 4, 2021, 5:56 pm
‘They all care a lot about science’
Local Orthodox students go to Israel for summer research internship program
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Chana Moria Dahan, holding baby Shuvi Shlomit, her husband, Netanel Dahan, and Ms. Dahan’s father, Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich. (Eyal Cohen)
August 4, 2021, 5:55 pm
Coming to America
Shlicha to Ben Porat Yosef talks about why her family is making the three-year move
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Pamela Simchi’s vision of Sukkot is part of a series on the three pilgrimage holidays.
August 4, 2021, 5:54 pm
Pleasure in painting
Pamela Simchi and her fine art
By Esther Kook
A woman drives past a closed Ben & Jerry’s store in Yavne, south of Tel Aviv, on July 23. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images)
July 28, 2021, 5:58 pm
‘This is a highly volatile situation…’
Local fallout from Ben and Jerry’s decision to leave the West Bank
By Larry Yudelson
Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton and Teaneck Township Manager Dean Kazinci listen to Congressman Josh Gottheimer.
July 28, 2021, 5:57 pm
Standing for shul security
Bergen Congressmen kvell over homeland funds for Jewish institutions
By Larry Yudelson
July 28, 2021, 5:56 pm
West Side Story in Jerusalem
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Merrill Silver’s husband, Andy, turned 60 at this party; that’s Merrill in the flowered dress.
July 28, 2021, 5:55 pm
Happy birthday to me!
Our correspondent looks behind and ahead
By Merrill Silver
The emperor of Japan, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach, and others stand for a moment of silence during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. (Martin Rickett/PA Images via Getty Images)
July 28, 2021, 5:54 pm
Olympic moment of silence remembers massacred Israeli athletes
Emotional victory for Rockland activists
By Larry Yudelson
David Friedman, left, and David Wander
July 28, 2021, 5:53 pm
Art, life, and difference
Teaneck synagogue hosts an evening with two creative teachers
By Joanne Palmer
Temima Baker, Orit Strassman, Belana Dworkis, and Danielle Dworkis hold the birthday kits they packed and will donate to a local food pantry.
July 21, 2021, 3:57 pm
Back-to-shul creativity grants
Orthodox Union aids local synagogues as they begin to re-open
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Adam Katz, left, Dan Mitzner, Dr. Steven Stein, and Rabbi Ami Neuman
July 21, 2021, 3:56 pm
Moonlight sonata
OU-backed state program brings public school science teachers to yeshivas
By Larry Yudelson
Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu
July 21, 2021, 3:55 pm
Healing the world, one network at a time
New JFN head Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu places great value in ‘Jewish wisdom’
By Lois Goldrich
Ira Miller is scouting for 12 competitive young tennis players for the games in Israel next summer.
July 21, 2021, 3:54 pm
Finally netting a 2-decade dream
Tenafly man to coach under-16 Maccabi USA tennis team this summer
By Abigail Klein Leichman
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