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Rallying for Israel
By
Ron Kampeas
Local groups join 290,000 others on the National Mall
Local
‘The world can see that we are together’
By
Ben Sales
and
Jackie Hajdenberg
March for Israel attendees say they delivered a powerful message
Rabbis express unequivocal solidarity
By
Leah Adler
Zionist Coalition’s Letter of Unity speaks with one voice
Selling art, strengthening community
By
Abigail Klein Leichman
Two-day pop-up show in Tenafly allows visitors to buy great pieces, support Israel
Foxman on antisemitism
By
Joanne Palmer
The longtime ADL head’s optimism is challenged, but ultimately it remains
Jews, Palestinians, and the facts
By
Dr. S. Abraham Ravid
Professor offers a historical elevator pitch for Israel’s side of the story
Day schools in Jersey meet the moment
By
Abigail Klein Leichman
Room is created for Israeli kids whose parents are looking for stability and safety
Striking all the right musical notes
By
Curt Schleier
From piano bars to CDs, Robin Spielberg lets resilience color her compositions
Matching the worker to the job
By
Abigail Klein Leichman
Areyvut’s Elana Kaplan helps American volunteers in Israel help Israelis
JFCS honors Rachel Scheff and ShopRite of Englewood, Paramus, and Rochelle Park
Editorial
Joanne Palmer
Thoughts on the rally
Opinion
Mark Lurinsky
What comes after?
Column
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Stop complaining about antisemitism — be fearless and fight it
Opinion
Rabbi Mendy Kaminker
How to cope with the news from Israel
Banji Ganchrow
Patience is a virtue
In an attempt to bring some light and humor into this space, I will share with all of you a relatively short anecdote from my time with Strudel. Shout-out to the woman who said, “You can write a column about this.” And so, here I go. I had the pleasure of having Strudel for a sleepover last week. Her shoes were a little small, so I told DIL #1 that I would take her for new shoes. This had happened a few months before, and when I told Strudel that...
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Calendar
Beatles Shabbat in Emerson
Friday, November 17, 7:30 p.m.
Art sale for Israel in Tenafly
Saturday, November 18, Saturday, 6–9 p.m.; and Sunday, noon–4 p.m.
Blood drive in Glen Rock
Sunday, November 19, 9 a.m.–2 p.m.
Fall boutique in Tenafly
Sunday, November 19, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Jews in literature
Sunday, November 19, 10:30 a.m.
Support for LGBTQIA+ teens
Sunday, November 19, 4– 6 p.m.
AMIT Israel solidarity concert in NYC
Monday, November 20,, 6:30 p.m.
Warsaw’s Jews
Tuesday, November 28, 7 p.m.
Neuropsych evaluations
Wednesday, November 29, 8 p.m.
New Jersey, national Jewish groups plan massive Rally for Israel in D.C. on Nov. 14
By
Erica Landis
and
Ron Kampeas
Hoboken responds
By
Joanne Palmer
United Synagogue offers concert, walk – and comfort
Feeling connections, creating hope
By
Ellen Braunstein
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades offers programs, attention, and care to Israeli families displaced by war
Sacrificing pawns and bishop, Putin moves his chess game to mittlespiel
By
Joanne Palmer
Living together in peace
By
Joanne Palmer
Ridgewood’s clergy gather to show that occasionally decency can win
Spiritual armor for the IDF
By
Jordana Benami
Troops clamor for tzitzis supplied by creative volunteers
From the JCC to Broadway
By
Curt Schleier
Julie Benko talks about ‘Fiddler,’ ‘Funny Girl,’ and now ‘Harmony’
A mind’s a terrible thing to close
By
Esther Kook
Looking at the highly troubling state of higher education today
Parashat Chayei Sarah — the reality of the world we live in post October 7
By
Rabbi Joel Pitkowsky
Editorial
Joanne Palmer
Odd new world
Column
Shammai Engelmayer
The media’s role in skyrocketing Jew-hatred
Opinion
Max L. Kleinman
What would the United States do?
Opinion
Daniel Shlufman
Open letter to Cornell University board chair, president, and provost
Banji Ganchrow
Do you hate me?
Husband #1 wears a yarmulka wherever he goes. I can never convince him to wear a baseball cap, ever. And I have gone to great lengths to purchase a few baseball hats for him because he has a very large cranium. I don’t know if I ever wrote about Big Melon Gear — it was a company that supplied hats for the cranially enlarged. Ahh, so many inappropriate jokes,so little time, but Husband #1 loved his BMG hat, because, a friend pointed out, that it also stood for Big...
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Remember the hostages
By
Abigail Klein Leichman
Empty Shabbat tables set with hope
When ‘Be Prepared’ is more than a slogan
By
Joanne Palmer
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker recounts his hostage story, as well as what he’s learned
Jewish day school graduates join the IDF
By
Abigail Klein Leichman
Soldiers and parents describe the love for Israel that led them to Tzahal
Protest at Englewood city council meeting leads to 5 arrests
By
Joanne Palmer
Mayor Michael Wildes describes what happened and makes a plea for outreach
Remembering Rifka Rosenwein
By
Joanne Palmer
Program marks beloved writer’s 20th yahrzeit
Putting a scholarly spin on true crime
By
Joanne Palmer
Retired professor painstakingly ferrets out the grisly facts
Unity through cinema
By
Laura Freeman
The JFNNJ festival will unfold in challenging times
Healing through music
By
Deb Breslow
Nefesh Mountain’s Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg consider hate – and love
Putting the Iranian conflict in cultural and historical perspective
By
Dr. Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
False hospitality
By
Rabbi Joshua Waxman
Editorial
Joanne Palmer
Covering the signs
Column
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Wedding in Israel under Hamas’s falling rockets
Opinion
Michael Schlank
What now?
Opinion
Rabbi Mendy Kaminker
It was just fake news
Opinion
Rabbi Alan Silverstein
Israel’s treatment of the Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank
Opinion
Stephanie Z. Bonder
How do we teach our children?
Opinion
Rabbi Joseph H. Prouser
History repeats at Cooper Union
Letters
Banji Ganchrow
Mickey gives temporary amnesia
Fifteen months ago, after some time had passed since my dad left us, I got a phone call from my sister. “How would you feel about taking mom on a Disney cruise? It leaves from New York, and it is only four days.” Now, my sister is a big fan of Disney, and so is my mom. Another thing they have in common. I would be coming along for moral support. Who the support was going to would remain the pressing question. “Sure, let’s go for it. It’s only 15 months...
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Songs of hope and rage
By
Joanne Palmer
Zalmen and Avram Mlotek present the presciently timed ‘Amid Falling Walls’
From Teaneck’s front lines
By
Joseph C. Kaplan
A firsthand look at how the Hamas attack in Gaza plays out at home
Why he’s staying in harm’s way
By
Abigail Klein Leichman
Computer whiz kid makes an emphatic aliyah
Brandeis is different
By
Eitan Marks
Hillel’s student president, from Englewood, takes pride in his school’s response
Why Touro is a university on the grow
By
Abigail Klein Leichman
Largest private Jewish school attains global reach through local leadership
When it’s beyond bashert
By
Joanne Palmer
Role of grandma in Neil Simon play goes to woman who ‘relates’ to the part
‘One for Each Night’
By
Curt Schleier
Memoirist Joanna Rakoff writes about her childhood in Rockland County
More war stories
Editorial
Joanne Palmer
Looking around outside
Column
Shammai Engelmayer
Israel and ‘The Rules of War’
Opinion
Edward C. Halperin
If Jewish donors don’t want to regret their donations to higher education,
they should make their donations to a Jewish university
Opinion
Max L. Kleinman
Portrait of a woman of valor
Banji Ganchrow
Sad
It has been a very emotionally draining time in our history. In our lives. Some are affected more, personally; some are affected differently, yet all of us have been touched by what is going on. Every time I read something that infuriates me, I say to Husband #1, “I feel so helpless. What are we supposed to be doing? Is this how people felt during the Holocaust?” We are buying supplies for soldiers, supplies for the families that have been decimated by the atrocities of October 7. We are sending...
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A note from Joseph Kaplan
By
Joseph C. Kaplan
There still is hope
By
Esther Kook
Gathering for Israel at Votee Park
Saving as many lives as possible
By
Abigail Klein Leichman
Andrew Glaser raises money for first responders in Israel
Holding each other together
By
Ruthie Yudelson
A student describes her creative fundraising venture at NYU
Turning a blind eye to brutality
By
Joanne Palmer
In response to the brutality, some schools go bland, while federations work together
Who will be for me?
By
Doron Krakow
A look at the terror – and the resilience
How to help your Jewish friends and colleagues now
By
Rachel Bernstein
My personal American Jewish experience of the Hamas/Israel war
Life and death and life again
By
Merrill Silver
Shabbat Shemini Atzeret in three time zones
Buying for the IDF
By
Ellen Braunstein
Local woman who made aliyah helps Zahal Shalom help soldiers
Allison tells Shahar’s story
What next?
By
Joanne Palmer
Yoav Ben-Horin ventures some guesses
The power of prayer, multiplied
By
Erica Landis
RKYHS spearheads Zoom program on Israel for North American yeshivot
Seeking righteousness in a flood of violence
By
Rabbi Jim Stoloff
Editorial
Joanne Palmer
Words matter
Column
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
As rockets fell on Israel, a cowardly Cory Booker ran for his life
Opinion
Stephanie Z. Bonder
Unimaginable and incomprehensible
Opinion
Dr. Mark Gold
and
Hiam Simon
Defense versus revenge
Opinion
Rabbi David Z. Vaisberg
Do you know how to be an ally?
An open letter to friends, colleagues, and partners
Opinion
David Schlussel
These are the times that try men’s souls
Banji Ganchrow
Some words on a page
It is very hard to be funny at times like this. What I find remarkable is how everyone knows someone who has been personally affected by the situation in Israel. The situation — that is putting it lightly. I must get off my phone and stop watching the news. But should I? And everything I write sounds more narcissistic than usual because the world is upside down. God willing, with the strength and resolve of the IDF, it will right itself again. Every day there seems to be a new prayer or...
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Letters
Letters
It’s war
A few of the very many stories that local people are telling
We stand with Israel
‘Into the Bright Sunshine’
By
Joanne Palmer
Journalist Samuel Freedman chronicles Hubert Humphrey’s feelings for the Jews
Putin paid – Hamas delivered
By
Joanne Palmer
Taking a realistic look at the world today
Running in love and memory
By
Abigail Klein Leichman
Josh Lipowsky tackles NYC Marathon again to honor his mother
From drag to interrogator, with many stops
By
Joanne Palmer
Israeli actor Itzik Cohen brings a varied career to Livingston
There’s no Plan B
By
Curt Schleier
Multi-hyphenate Mandy Patinkin, about to play in New Brunswick, enjoys his many Plan As
Local Support for Israel
Let there be light
By
Rabbi David Bockman
Editorial
Joanne Palmer
Pure evil
Column
Shammai Engelmayer
Blame Hamas and its allies — period!
Opinion
Dr. Mark Gold
and
Hiam Simon
A time for every purpose under heaven
Opinion
Cantor Lenny Mandel
We all have something to give
Banji Ganchrow
Compartmentalize!
I had all of these thoughts about what I was going to write about. Before I begin, I just want to introduce the word “compartmentalize.” This is how I, personally, survive every day. Everyone has things in their lives that are good or bad or whatever emotion they are, but in order to survive, you have to put the bad or sad stuff away in a compartment and focus on the good stuff or even just the mundane day-to-day stuff. You can always come back to the bad compartments later....
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Language wars
By
Joanne Palmer
YIVO exhibit looks at Yiddish in Palestine before 1948
‘Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew’
By
Joanne Palmer
Dr. Jeremy Dauber will talk about the comic genius at the Kaplen JCC
East-West duel inside the Pale of Settlement
By
Joanne Palmer
Taking a realistic look at the war, and at Ukraine’s Jewish history
Dove Lounge becomes a safe space
By
Erica Landis
Group for LGBTQIA+ plus teens meets monthly in River Edge shul
‘My challenge is not to be bored’
By
Curt Schleier
Itzhak Perlman, about to perform locally, discusses music, his disability, and Jewishness
Caring for the rescuers
By
Ellen Braunstein
Polish government honors Stanlee Stahl for her work with Righteous Gentiles
Up from the south
By
Joanne Palmer
Remembering the Fair Lawn Jewish Center’s Rabbi Simon Glustrom
Editorial
Joanne Palmer
Finally, a new year
Column
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
I pray for Jimmy Carter’s health, but I will never forgive his animus to Israel
Opinion
Lonye Debra Rasch
Post-Yom Kippur food for thought
Banji Ganchrow
Round 3
Okay folks, Round 3 should be over. I hope it went well for you. Four more yom tov meals until the end of Sukkot 2023. But before we discuss that, I just wanted to give you all a little window into my life, which occurred a few days before Round 3 began. Allow me to put it in a script, as if it were a play. Scene One — Frazzled Housewife’s home in Teaneck. Friday, September 29, 2023. Last week, I wrote about having my landline fixed. Well, it was not. My...
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