Orthodox “Retention” and Kiruv
We are swimming—indeed drowning—in the ink spilled on the data from the Pew Research Center’s 2013 study of American Jewry. Early reactions from the religious
We are swimming—indeed drowning—in the ink spilled on the data from the Pew Research Center’s 2013 study of American Jewry. Early reactions from the religious
The “Yeshiva Tuition Crisis” is quite possibly the Orthodox community’s favorite headline, Shabbat dinner discussion, and all around topic of choice in social situations. Talk
Paramus—JEDcampNJNY (http://www.jedcamp.org), an innovative conference on Jewish education, will be held at Yeshivat Noam on Sunday, May 4. The structure of the conference is informal,
The Jewish Communal Fund (JCF), the largest Jewish donor advised fund in the country, and Slingshot, an organization that connects NextGen funders with innovative Jewish
Teaneck—Tova Weinstock of Manhattan’s Upper East Side and Aviva Segal of Bergenfield are Teaneck-born-and-raised sisters who have found a meaningful way to honor the memory
Blair Muss is one of the honorees at this year’s Sharsheret dinner. As a former cancer patient, she is a classic example of a woman
Despite my tendency to obsess about the chag as soon as Yosef and Mitzrayim are mentioned in one breath in the weekly Parsha reading, the
A fantastic coincidence, coupled with research, led to my discovery of a wartime camp in the Jordan desert that was occupied in 1918. This was
A new paradigm is emerging related to the status and image of Jews in the world. These five categorizations are by necessity redefining the “condition”
New York—Members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Wednesday voted 22-17 (with three abstentions) to reject the membership application of
Ordinarily, Jews have little interest in who the Roman Catholic Church canonizes as saints. Yet on the Sunday after Easter, the day that coincides with
With the advent of social media, there has been a rise in the number of fringe groups gaining a platform on world wide websites. These