Picture this: Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai sitting with his son, Rabbi Elazar, learning in a cave for 12 years. Then, as soon as they leave

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(Courtesy of Valley Chabad) On Sunday, March 10, Valley Chabad’s Friendship Circle spent a day of giving at the Veterans Home in Paramus. Over 50

Congregation Beth Shalom of Teaneck held a fun Motzei Shabbat Paint With Me! event. Congregation Beth Shalom members met their inner artist and all ages

Throughout the decades of my genealogy research, there have been a few cousins with exceptionally common names (think Cohen, Friedman…), making them more of a

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The story is told of the late Dr. Judah Folkman, who several years ago discovered promising anti-cancer therapies. Asked what motivated him to become a

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As I flew through the air reading parenting advice from articles in a recent issue of The Jewish Link of New Jersey, my thoughts were