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Bob Brody stands on a road in Italy (Photos courtesy Bob Brody)
What really happened?
By Bob Brody
A Jersey Jew confronts a medieval massacre In Italy
Mark Levenson, right, and the AZM’s executive director, Herbert Block, in Budapest, point to a sign marking Theodor Herzl’s birthplace; they were in Hungary for an AZM conference. (All photos courtesy Mark Levenson)
Emphasizing positive Zionism
By Joanne Palmer
Mark Levenson, right, and the AZM’s executive director, Herbert Block, in Budapest, point to a sign marking Theodor Herzl’s birthplace; they were in Hungary for an AZM conference. (All photos courtesy Mark Levenson)
August 13, 2026, 9:59 am
Emphasizing positive Zionism
AZM president Mark Levenson of West Orange is optimistic about the movement
By Joanne Palmer
Bob Brody stands on a road in Italy (Photos courtesy Bob Brody)
August 13, 2026, 9:58 am
What really happened?
A Jersey Jew confronts a medieval massacre In Italy
By Bob Brody
Abby wears her 67 shirt and holds her new Zahav-Kav, entitling her to free public transportation.
August 7, 2026, 11:06 am
Sweet 6-7
Finally, a free ride and other perks
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Dad’s Copake Diner
August 7, 2026, 11:03 am
Surprising memories at the diner
Names painted on windows offer food for thought
By Merrill Silver
A scene from the American Theater Groups production of Erik Kahn’s “Canned Goods.” (Lianne Schoenwiesner)
August 7, 2026, 11:00 am
‘Don’t be an idiot. Get in the boat’
Danish-born, Israeli-bred director guides Union-based performing arts company
By Curt Schleier
Lenny Mandel stands in front of the motorcycle, complete with Iraeli flag, that his friend Bobby rode up to West Point.
July 29, 2026, 2:59 pm
Attention! HUA at West Point
Allegra Goodman (Joshua Meyer)
July 29, 2026, 2:58 pm
Old characters, new lives
Novelist Allegra Goodman talks about ‘Apple Cake’ growing into ‘This Is Not About Us’
By Curt Schleier
Students from the ORT Digital Skills Academy visited local Bulgarian television networks as part of the instruction curriculum to learn more about pre- and post-production, sound and visual editing, and video skills.
July 23, 2026, 9:59 am
The camera and the future of Jewish life
ORT stresses the importance of education, independence, dignity, and hope
By Dov Ben-Shimon
Dr. Eric Fremed is the chair and Katie Katz is the executive director of Teach NJ.
July 23, 2026, 9:58 am
Teach NJ aims for parity
OU-supported group scores dollars for nonpublic schools in tough budget year
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Lenny Mandel first played Tevye in 1986.
July 16, 2026, 9:57 am
Tevya in church
Everyone learns when you teach ‘Fiddler’
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher always spent time with Russian Jews when she visited the USSR. Here, in 1990, from left, are Mr. Smukler, Valery Engel, and Roman Gefter.
July 16, 2026, 9:56 am
History does sometimes echo
A look at antisemitism in the Soviet Union then — and at home now
By Joanne Palmer
This photo, by Rabbi Aviv Siegel, is the cover of “You Shall Love.”
July 16, 2026, 9:55 am
‘You Shall Love’
Academy for Jewish Religion puts out a supplement for Tu B’Av
By Joanne Palmer
“A Walk on the Moon” is set in the Catskills during the summer of 1969. (Joan Marcus)
July 16, 2026, 9:54 am
Summer outside the city
Pamela Gray talks about “A Walk on the Moon” as she turns it into a Broadway musical
By Curt Schleier
These are the police officers at the temporarily renamed New York/New Jersey Stadium who helped Rabbi Boteach.
July 9, 2026, 9:57 am
Hatred at the stadium
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach describes his afternoon at a World Cup game
By Joanne Palmer
From left: Molly Ranson, Nate Mann, Liz Larsen, Eli Gelb, Molly Bernard, Zoë Winters, and Hale Appleman are in Jonathan Spector’s “Birthright.” (Emilio Madrid)
July 9, 2026, 9:56 am
Arguing is our ‘Birthright’
Playwright puts six Jewish lives under the microscope in long, powerful show
By Curt Schleier
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