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Rabbi Daniel Cohen of Temple Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel in South Orange and the incoming president of the National Council of Jewish Women, Jennie Rothman, stand together in Washington at a rally protesting the likely overturning of Roe v. Wade. (Rabbi Daniel Cohen)

Talking about abortion

By Joanne Palmer

Local Orthodox rabbi explains the halachic view; liberal rabbis protest in DC

Clockwise from top left, Yael Ziegler, Doron Perez, Gil Hoffman, Yosef Carmel, Rachel Fraenkel, and Miriam Peretz

From out of Zion

World Mizrachi brings Israeli scholars to Jersey shuls

Left, Alekander S., who will be 92 in June, is now in western Ukraine after escaping the bombing; right, Aleksandra B.’s grandson took his grandmother to a village 100 kilometers away to find safety.
(Photos courtesy of The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous)

15 ‘Righteous Gentiles’ lived in Ukraine

A Jersey-based American Jewish group rushed to aid them when Russia invaded

The Marcus National Blood Services Center (AFMDA)

Israel opens massive underground blood bank

By Abigail Klein Leichman

Secure facility in Ramla would guarantee supply during times of crisis

Michael Takiff (Joe Henson)

‘Jews, God and History’

By Curt Schleier

Writer from Elizabeth riffs about life at a performance in Manhattan

This was the Azovstal iron and steel factory in Mariupol in 2014. The city is in rubble now. (Wikimedia Commons)

‘We have witnessed a miracle’

By Joanne Palmer

Alexander Smukler talks about the week’s events in Ukraine and Russia

I would like to start this week’s column out by saying that I attended a shiur, or talk, about something to do with if there is a mitzvah to believe in God. Why did I go? Because the shiur/talk was given in memory of a friend... Continue Reading

EDITORIAL

Baby formula and community

OPINION

The builder

By Rosanne Skopp

I’VE BEEN THINKING

Joseph C. Kaplan

Wading into dangerous waters

OPINION

Who would want to be a teacher today?

By Dr. Elaine Shizgal Cohen

OPINION

What’s Jewish about tikkun olam?

By Norman Levin

Guy Mintus

From Blue Note to Beersheba

By Larry Yudelson

Joshua Waletzky sings and Deborah Strauss plays the violin in an YIVO celebration of folklorist and Yiddishish Ruth Rubin in 2018.

Reviving forgotten Yiddish folk songs

By Joanne Palmer

YIVO festival makes old music sing

Dana Lazich and Vitaly Zaslovsky’s daughters; from left, it’s Maya, Polina, and Dasha.

Buy art, help Ukraine

By Miriam Allenson

Local Eastern European families set up silent auction to support refugees

Russian troops parade in a recent — but prewar — Victory Day commemoration (Wikimedia Commons)

The Angry Dwarf chronicles

By Joanne Palmer

May 9 comes and goes — Victory Day’s surprise was its lack of surprises

Dylan Meyers and Martina Weimer meet in Germany. Right, this woman’s family saved receipts from Ms. Meyer’s grandparents’ family store.

History, memory, and Flat Stanley

By Miriam Allenson

A family’s trip to Germany, sparked by a school assignment, continues to deepen relationships

This is the cover of Anna Olswanger’s book.

‘A Visit to Moscow’

By Abigail Klein Leichman

Local writer tells a story about a story in her graphic novel

Esther and her daughter, Elana, stand together at Elana’s wedding.

Weddings return to full bloom

Observations on the joys and perils of the new-old normal

Do I throw it out?

For some reason, I have been on a cleaning spree. I recently decided to clean out a bunch of cabinets around the house. If I were pregnant, this would be called nesting, but since I am not, we will call it the every-time-I-open-one-of-these-cabinets-everything-falls-on-the-floor-so-I-need-to-get-rid-of-whatever-is-in-there cleaning... Continue Reading

Chilling with Google Translate

By Larry Yudelson

EDITORIAL

On dictators and pandemics

KEEPING THE FAITH

Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer

Warning: Roe is just the beginning

OPINION

A drawer filled with treasures

OPINION

Max L. Kleinman

Can we talk?

OPINION

Jonathan E. Lazarus

Combating hate and inequality: The square-one syndrome

Back to the birds

By Joanne Palmer

Tenafly’s Leon Sokol talks about reviving Israel’s wetlands

The AEPi house on the Rutgers campus

Rutgers Jewish fraternity harassed after pro-Palestinian rally

By Larry Yudelson

Hillel director hears different tone in university administration’s response

Rabbi Jill Jacobs

‘I want my Judaism and my activism to be part of one whole’

By Larry Yudelson

Rabbi Jill Jacobs of T’ruah to speak in Livingston shul

Some of the 45 members of four Conservative shuls who met to help cldean a stretch of the Passaic River’s bank. (photos by Tyler Tierney/Hackensack Riverkeepers)

Eyes on the water

By Joanne Palmer

Members of four local shuls gather to help clean the Passaic — and meet each other

Yitzchak Mais

Does the meaning of history change?

By Joanne Palmer

Public historian Yitzchak Mais to discuss victimhood for YU’s Fish Center

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, shakes hands with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on May 21, 2015. (Kremlin Media Center)

‘These guys are completely out of their minds’

By Joanne Palmer

In this installment of the Angry Dwarf Chronicles, we consider how antisemitism has become part of Russia’s war on Ukraine

What are the things that drive you crazy? The things that make you want to scream and throttle something? Are there a lot of things? Just a few? Are you a calm and reasonable person? One who is able to look the other way... Continue Reading

EDITORIAL

A robin’s eggs in springtime

OPINION

Rodfei shalom

I’VE BEEN THINKING

Joseph C. Kaplan

Leave mind reading to the mentalists

OPINION

Rabbi Ari Lucas

Remember. Don’t forget. Never again.

OPINION

Rabbi Dr. Tzvee Zahavy

The inevitable tragic outcome of Jerusalem’s sacred space problem?

OPINION

Joshua Sotomayor-Einstein

The Jewish community must stand with Ukraine

Meet comet Bernardinelli–Bernstein

By Larry Yudelson

Portrait of families in turmoil

What it’s like to have a child with a mood disorder

KEEPING THE FAITH

The ‘moral pandemic’ is even worse

By Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer

When you meet in the street

By Rosanne Skopp

OPINION

Rabbi Hannah Orden

Can poetry save us?

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