When the COVID-19 pandemic left many vulnerable seniors and others quarantining in their homes and other community members with restricted access to food for themselves and their families, Jewish agencies supplying kosher meals on wheels and stocking food pantries scrambled to meet their needs.

“It was

JFSCNJ Vice President Arielle Traub volunteered in the JFS Urban Community Garden with her son, Caleb.

Contact [email protected], if you are interested in volunteer opportunities at Jewish Family Service of Central NJ.

It is an extraordinary thing watching talented teens take kernels of creativity and build them into compelling, imaginative stories. I have had the benefit of doing just that as an English teacher overseeing Yavneh Academy’s literary magazine, Scribe. As we closed out a very unusual school year and headed towards an uncertain

Over 1,000 diplomas awarded to students at six Touro graduate schools

(Courtesy of Touro College) Graduates from six Touro graduate schools participated in a virtual commencement ceremony on June 16, where they were invited to close their eyes and imagine themselves at Lincoln

(Courtesy of JFCS) On June 22, Jewish Family & Children’s Services of Northern New Jersey (JFCS) held a virtual annual meeting to mark the end of its fiscal year. Due to COVID-19, JFCS board members, staff and volunteers met online to celebrate the achievements of the past year and to discuss future agency plans.

(Courtesy of CBY) The entire Teaneck community is invited to join our (lockdown-compliant) send-off for Rabbi Steven and Karen Pruzansky, as they realize their dream of עליה and move to Israel next month.

In their over 26 years of devoted community service and outstanding Torah

Jewish Association for Developmental Disabilities (J-ADD) receives a festive Shabbat dinner.

(Courtesy of JFNNJ) Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey facilitated a generous donation of food from Petak’s Kosher Catering. Festive meals left over from a wedding went to good use and

Editor's note: The print edition of this article mistakenly omitted Jim Dunleavy from the list of members of the Teaneck Town Council. We regret the error. 

Growing up Orthodox in Teaneck in the late 1970s into the 1980s was quite a different experience from that of today. There were

This past spring, our Jewish communities were forced to take on a fundamentally different character. These radical changes provoked by COVID-19 had ripple effects in many areas, and one of the most immediate, and perhaps most profound, was the need to quickly rethink major fundraising events that allow shuls, schools and organizations to

Every few days TeaneckShuls lists an ISO (in search of) for medical equipment, including wheelchairs, walkers and highly in-demand knee scooters. Fortunately these items and a diversified array of other medical equipment are readily available free of charge in our local communities. Most importantly, they can be delivered to your

Jackson officials took umbrage at charges leveled against them in a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) charging “extreme animus” by them and some residents toward Orthodox Jews, branding those charges as “erroneous” and “full of factual inaccuracies.”

In a statement by township

(Courtesy of Chabads of Teaneck and Hackesack) The Chabad houses of Teaneck and Hackensack are inviting the community to a lecture with bestselling author Mendel Kalmenson, as they commemorate the yahrzeit of Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, of righteous memory.

The lecture, which