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April 17, 2021

Right Now

Weequahic pastoral

Louise Wise Services did what?

By Jonathan E. Lazarus

My adoption, my parents, and my happiness

Anthony Russell released “Convergence” in 2018.

Finding his voice in Yiddish song

By Larry Yudelson

Singer Anthony Russell to perform and discuss his music online for Rutgers

Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman and museum founder Ahmed Obaid Al-Mansoori. (Yeshiva University)

Two distinct voices in surprising harmony

By Joanne Palmer

YU’s Ari Berman talks about his Yom HaShoah experience in Dubai

Abe Foxman, who retired as the head of the ADL, talks about his experiences as a child survivor. (All photos courtesy the Claims Conference)

It started with words

By Joanne Palmer

Abe Foxman records an anti-hate video for the Claims Conference series

Barry Wadler and a donkey are in Jerusalem in 1961.

By Barry A. Wadler

Remembering my family’s first trip to Israel

A perfect prince

The world has recently heard of the passing of Queen Elizabeth’s husband, Prince Philip. He was 99 years old and had been married to the queen for about 73 years. Though they were distantly related through Queen Victoria, the first time they officially met... Continue Reading

A laser-cut omer counter that clicks

Hamilton — ‘The Musical and the Duel’ program

Virtual plaques on the Auschwitz-Birkenau train tracks

March of the Living’s virtual commemoration

Celebrate Earth Day in Somerset

Ron Brandt, left, with Leron, Dean, Neeve, Maya, Naama, and Amir Hadar; and Rabbi Menashe East. (Courtesy MFJC)

Morris County shul renames its religious school

Marking the Warsaw Ghetto uprising

Project Sarah plans virtual breakfast for May 2

JFS MetroWest spring support groups

(Courtesy TBA)

Welcoming spring in Livingston

Lisa Margolis and her mother, Peppy Margolis

Two generations Holocaust talk

Arielle and Ethan Karni of Livingston

JFS MetroWest’s Passover deliveries

Jeremy Benstein

Restoring the earth

Rabbi Mordechai Kanelsky delivers the invocation. (Courtesy Bris Avrohom)

Bris Avrohom rabbi gives State Senate invocation

John Kenrick (Courtesy JHS)

Jewish women in American film

‘Never give into despair’

By Joanne Palmer

Siggi Wilzig’s children and his biographer remember the survivor, oilman, and banker

Betsy Rosenberg

‘Where are the green people?’

By Lois Goldrich

Environmental activist to speak for NCJW

Dr. Jeffrey Shandler

Who’s your mamaloshen?

By Larry Yudelson

Author of “Yiddish: Biography of a Language” to speak at Rutgers forum

On the day the course launched, Duolingo gave students a free bagel — if they ordered it in Yiddish. (Duolingo)

How Duolingo created a Yiddish course

By Gabe Friedman

with a secular scholar and chasidic Jews from Brooklyn

Charlotte Bennett Schoen, left, and Lisa Wisotsky

Rotarians and Nazis

By Joanne Palmer

German historians talk about the organization’s track record in the 1930s

Merrill Silver’s mother, Evelyn, and her husband, Andy, as Elijah in the early 1990s.

The fifth question

By Merrill Silver

What new traditions will come out of this second pandemic Pesach

Puppies!

Growing up, my parents took me to a lot of places. I think I have mentioned before that my brother and I have napped in some of the nicest museums around the country (and England, France and Israel…the only other countries I have been... Continue Reading

Simon and Kate Krasnove, students at the Jewish Learning Program of Temple B’nai Abraham, make ziti. (Courtesy TBA)

Livingston shul bakes ziti for the needy

Barbara Bortniker

Virtual Israel tour

Cellists of Lincoln Center (Courtesy Mostly Music)

Music in Westfield

Name that Disney song

Ira Wagner

Montclair museum has new executive director

Cantor Erica “Rikki” Lippitz, left, Fred Heyman, left, with Howard Goldberg

SOMA’s annual Holocaust remembrance to be online this year

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