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Counselors and campers play at Ramah Day Camp in Nyack.

A summer of civic engagement

By Joanne Palmer

Camp Ramah Nyack addresses the present moment

Rabbis and federation representatives from northern Jersey gather outside Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Rabbis bridge denomination lines under the federation’s umbrella

By Larry Yudelson

JFNNJ follows unity mission to Israel with formation of an action committee

Burying the ashes

By Joanne Palmer

Holocaust museum in Suffern discovers human cremated remains in its archives

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

Local summer interns pursue real science in Israel through BIU/YU program

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

Teaneck student saves a life in Israel

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

Many people ask me about my writing process

How I come up with ideas, when I write them, how long it takes me… The truth is that I have no one answer. But the one thing that I will admit to being consistent about is that when I do think of an... Continue Reading

Opinion

Rabbi Craig Scheff

Let my children go … to camp

‘We are stardust’

By Joanne Palmer

Four local people remember being at Woodstock: the music, the rain, the crowds, the mud, the transformation

Dan Kohane wears an udeng as he plays gamelan.

There are Jews on Bali?

By Joanne Palmer

Dan Kohane of Teaneck will describe his new community on Indonesia’s storied island

Last year, Aliza Pelavin, left, and Cayla Olitzky joined the demonstration. Aliza’s mother is Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster.

‘She weeps in the night … she has no one to comfort her…’

By Joanne Palmer

Local Jewish groups to mark Tisha B’Av with demonstrations in Newark, Elizabeth

Rabbi Jack Bemporad and Pope Francis

‘I feel I have something to teach’

By Larry Yudelson

Eli Szafranski, Rabbi Benny Berlin, and Robin Tassler talk about issues that affect the lives of Orthodox students at Queens College.

How to be frum at Queens College

By Larry Yudelson

Teaneck rabinnic couple guides OU campus outreach program

Rabbi Yosef Orenstein, the head of Valley Chabad’s Teen Leadership Initiative, sits with students as they debate issues. (Valley Chabad)

High-level learning and college credit

By Lois Goldrich

Chabad and YU team up in “win-win” program for public-school teens

Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner of Temple
Emanu-El of Closter takes his food reviews seriously.

The 2 Plate Solution

By Abigail Klein Leichman

David-Seth Kirshner, rabbi, foodie, and traveler, rates Israel’s restaurants online

Letters

d'var torah

Rabbi Jennifer Schlosberg

Tisha B’Av: Shifting out of autopilot

The bear went over the mountain

Before the summer starts, husband #1 and I like to come up with a list of things we want to accomplish over the warm weather weeks. In the past, they have included a vacation to a place that we never end up going to, but... Continue Reading

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Bill de Blasio campaigns in Yiddish to save faltering presidential bid

Crashed Israeli lander may have seeded moon with ‘water bears’

Fresh coverage of Democratic debates brought by Jewish kid, 10

Bon Jovi returns to Israel

By Larry Yudelson

A mule joined travelers in Israel at the Ben Gurion Airport terminal.

Israeli rabbis ban dogs

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Mon 19

Summer Hebrew reading

August 19 , 5:00 pm

Mon 19

Support groups

August 19 , 6:00 pm

Tue 20

Book discussion

August 20 , 1:00 pm

Tue 20

Music

August 20 , 7:00 pm

Tue 20

Reconstructionist Judaism

August 20 , 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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