All women are invited to join Asicha Seminars on Zoom (ID: 974-3740-1898) this Motzei Shabbat at 8 p.m. for an exciting pre-Purim learning event. The program will feature two half-hour shiurim from Rabbi Chaim Marcus (Springfield; Bruriah) and Rabbi Isaac Rice (Hewlett; SKA) on timely topics in hashkafa and halacha.
Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies (WIJS) at Young Israel of New Rochelle will present Dr. Rachel Korazim on Sunday, February 21, at 9:30 a.m. (ET) on Zoom. Korazim will be the fifth speaker in the monthly scholarly programming offered by WIJS at YINR. She will speak on the subject “Land and Identity: An Exploration of Poetic
A Texan rabbi is coming to Hackensack, and it’s going to be funny. “That’s funny, Rabbi” is a joke-filled event that will take place via Zoom with Chabad of Hackensack on Monday, February 22, at 8:30 p.m. The star of the event will be Rabbi Levi Teldon, who is, in his words, “a published author, screenwriter, app developer,
They probably didn’t know it at the time but a car ride conversation between two friends, five and a half years ago, sparked the creation of an enduring Middlesex County organization that has benefitted dozens of local Jewish business men and women.
Randy Cohen, a certified
(Courtesy of NJJFF) For the second year, JCC MetroWest’s New Jersey Jewish Film Festival (NJJFF ) is going virtual. Tickets are now on sale for the 21st annual event, taking place February 28-March 21.
Rabbi Adam Mintz, the spiritual leader of Kehilat Rayim Ahuvim in New York City, will be presenting two interesting Jewish history lectures via Zoom on the cultural and Halachic responses to crisis and tragedy. The program is being sponsored by the Center for Community Education (CCE) at the Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy of
On February 9, Fairfield University’s Judaic Studies program and the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies welcomed Dr. Joshua Shanes, associate professor of Jewish Studies and director of the Arnold Center for Israel Studies at the College of Charleston, to kick off their spring lecture series. More than 300 devices logged
The upcoming Jewish Fertility Summit is set to occur on Zoom, on the evening of Monday, February 22. Eleven organizations that address a variety of issues relating to fertility will gather from many different geographic areas around the
In last week’s paper, my family enjoyed the final article in “A Season of SINAI Stories,” an uplifting piece by Esther and Jacob Schlanger, who accompanied their daughter Tamar to the marriage canopy in 2017. Tamar, who married Chaim—both SINAI alumni—famously gave new meaning to the term “Saw you at
On Wednesday, Feb. 3, the Jewish Renaissance Experience and Young Israel of White Plains (YIWP) viewed a conversation with “Zaidie” Joe Bistritz, a Holocaust survivor and father of YIWP’s Janice (Bistritz) Mirsky.
Bistritz was born in Bucovina, Romania. At age 5, his family moved to the Romanian province of Transylvania. His town had 400 Jews,
This past week, as awareness of Shira Shatzkes’ medical emergency spread primarily via social media, the local community quickly responded with immediacy and purpose, expanding like a beacon, reaching across the globe, and creating a tangible sense of unity and focus.
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Jessica Brenner, a senior at Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls in Teaneck, delivered a petition to New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy that calls on him to support efforts to provide personal hygiene products for women and girls in low income schools in New Jersey. Over 100 students and teachers in the Teaneck area signed the