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Good friends Loretta Weinberg and Steven Goldstein.

‘Born with a moral compass’

By Joanne Palmer

Loretta Weinberg, about to retire from the state Senate, looks back

Analysis

Thank you, Loretta Weinberg

Each year, in partnership with the Jewish Agency for Israel, the federation brings a delegation of rishonim (emissaries) to Greater MetroWest to spend their gap year teaching about Israel, its people, and its culture. (JFGMW)

Federation takes an in-depth look at itself

By Jonathan E. Lazarus

Jewish Community Report presents a mosaic of demographics and attitudes

‘Yiddish Chanukah Carols’

By Larry Yudelson

Leah Garrett

Fighting for their families’ lives

Rutgers to host lecture on Britain’s German-Jewish WWII commandos

Stephen Colbert calls for Chanukah movies

Most of the family gathers for a wedding; from left, Will, Marc, Alex, Drew, and Amy Rosenberg; Robert and Vivienne Cohen; Jody Cohen-Gavarian; Amitai and Jimmy Gavarian, and Brody Cohen.

‘If you rest, you rust’

By Miriam Allenson

Robert Cohen of Springfield turns the new 65

Rabbi Dr. David J. Fine also is an adjunct professor of Jewish law at the Abraham Geiger and Zacharias Frankel Colleges at the University of Potsdam in Germany; here, he’s teaching at Geiger. (Tobias Barniske)

‘The named other’

By Joanne Palmer

Rabbi Dr. David Fine offers course on anti-Semitism

EDITORIAL

A world without Sondheim

OPINION

Max L. Kleinman

Fabricating facts to fit your narrative

OPINION

The Crusaders — or why we sent our kids to day school

OPINION

Rabbi Jennifer Schlosberg

I’m a rabbi and I secretly love Christmas

The traveling others

By Joanne Palmer

Ayal Prouser and Time Flies bring Jewish circus to New Jersey

Rabbis Roundtable brought area rabbis from across denominations to study with Dr. Erica Brown on Zoom.

Transcending denominational differences

By Larry Yudelson

Rabbis study together under the auspices of Federation’s new roundtable

Isabell Adler celebrates becoming bat mitzvah.

Better late than never

By Lois Goldrich

Isabell Adler’s excellent bat mitzvah

The light stuff

By Larry Yudelson

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Photos Courtesy AFIP)

In tune with the Israel Philharmonic

By Abigail Klein Leichman

Jim Ackerman of Demarest orchestrates philanthropy by its American Friends

In 1997, some of the Fortunoff and Mayrock families are at the Source Mall in Westbury; from left, David, Ruth, and Louis Fortunoff; Isidore Mayrock; Esther Fortunoff; Rachel and Elliot Mayrock, and Helene and Alan Fortunoff.

Remembering Helene Fortunoff

By Joanne Palmer

Esther Fortunoff-Greene recalls her smart and savvy Jersey-born mother

These are the stepping stones in memory of the Pincus family (Debi Simon)

Germans and Jews remember together

By Rabbi Neal Borovitz

A Kristallnacht story that crosses decades and continents

Four grandparents and a wedding

By Tzivia Bieler

EDITORIAL

Going back to shul

KEEPING THE FAITH

Shammai Engelmeyer

There’s nothing ‘light’ about Chanukah’s message

FIRST PERSON

How did this happen? I’m … old…

Thanksgiving 2021

By Banji Ganchrow

Lost — and suddenly found

By Joanne Palmer

Fair Lawn woman connects New Yorker and Russian rabbi

This photo shows an eastern European shtetl; Kreskol probably looked a lot like it. (History & Art Images via Getty Images)

‘The Lost Shtetl’

By Joanne Palmer

Max Gross explains why his book is funny, and sad, and why it wanders

Yossi Klein Halevi

Writer Yossi Klein Halevi to speak for JNF-USA

By Larry Yudelson

After 40 years, he’s upbeat about Israel’s intractable dilemmas

At left, dental student Kiera Rosen created and fit dentures for Holocaust survivor Larisa Rabinovich; at right, Holocaust survivor Helen Bright is at the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine postdoctoral clinic, where licensed dentists who are training to become specialists care for patients. Both were referred by the Jewish Family Service of MetroWest.

Holocaust survivors get free dental care

By Abigail Klein Leichman

MetroWest Federation partners with Rutgers to provide needed treatment

Dr. Zvi Loewy

Tailoring our drugs

By Joanne Palmer

Touro College of Pharmacy’s Zvi Loewy talks about pharmacogenetics

Deborah Veach

‘I figured I better learn some more Yiddish’

By Larry Yudelson

Teaneck’s Deborah Veach joins board of the YIVO Institute

People arrive at Kosherfest in Secaucus with empty tote bags on each shoulder, ready to fill up with product samples and vendors’ business cards. (Photos by Julia Gergely)

Kosherfest is back

By Julia Gergely

Here are five unexpected products from the Secaucus show

An aerial view of the excavation. (Vladik Lifshits/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Ancient burnt Greek fort unearthed, just in time for Chanukah

By Larry Yudelson

EDITORIAL

Thoughts on Thanksgiving

OPINION

Has American-Jewish Zionism unraveled?

FIRST PERSON

Whispers in the cemetery

OPINION

Steven R. Rothman

Why I’m cautiously optimistic for America

FIRST PERSON

Jeremy J. Fingerman

Machanayim — for today and tomorrow

What’s on your head?

The power of the yarmulke. Have any of you ever thought about that? Who wore the first yarmulke? Why is it called a yarmulke? What’s with the “l”? Do we have a detailed history of the who what why where and how of this head covering? I just asked Husband #1 if he knew the history, and he just gave me the google answer that “it is a sign of respect for God.” Umm, ok. I always thought of it as a target on someone’s head. After the Holocaust, there was... Continue Reading

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