The residents of Passaic Park, Clifton and the surrounding communities got a rare treat last Sunday evening when international pop singer Micha Gamerman performed a
(Courtesy of JCC MetroWest) Eight hundred people from the community gathered at JCC MetroWest in West Orange, New Jersey, on August 5, for the inaugural
Jewish Family Service of Central NJ, a nonsectarian health and social service agency, will be hosting a free “Memory Café” on Tuesday, August 21, at
Join Rabbi Shalom Jacoby and Rabbi David Rosenthal on Monday, Sept. 3, at 11:30 a.m., for brunch and discussion of topics related to the High
The Torah specifically instructs us to “honor the elderly” (Leviticus 19:32): “…every old person is regarded as having a special wisdom that comes with life
(Editor’s Note: The letter below was written last week by Dena Kinderlehrer, the wife of JLNJ Co-Publisher and Founder Moshe Kinderlehrer. It was presented to
I never gave separation anxiety that much thought until I dropped off my young son for the first time at preschool many years ago. The
This story is an ongoing email correspondence beginning with my cousin Philip’s comments to me about a Vietnam veteran whom I knew many years ago.
May these words of Torah serve as a merit le’iluy nishmat Menachem Mendel ben Harav Yoel David Balk, a”h. This week we learned Menachot 2.
Chazal teach us that certain times in the year contain echoes of events that occurred at those times in previous years. Essentially, we move through
Ashkenazic Pronunciation of Shem Hashem You may have witnessed the following: An Ashkenazic Jew attending a Sephardic synagogue receives an aliyah. Wishing to respect the
I wrote about this topic before, but in revising my article for my forthcoming book I came across a scholarly article that made me change
