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Survivor siblings remain ‘Unbroken’
By Curt Schleier
New documentary follows all seven who hid outside Berlin, then thrived here
The bridesmaids display their dresses at Debra Mazon’s brother’s wedding.
When traditions go sideways
By Debra Mazon
Instagram bans, unbans Iron Dome Coffee
By Joanne Palmer
Pope Francis is part of an ecumenical group of religious leaders at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in downtown Manhattan on September 25, 2015. Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove stands next to the pope, and Cantor Azi Schwartz is at the podium. Both are from Manhattan’s Park Avenue Synagogue. (Abe Foxman)
Remembering Pope Francis
By Joanne Palmer
Pope Francis is part of an ecumenical group of religious leaders at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in downtown Manhattan on September 25, 2015. Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove stands next to the pope, and Cantor Azi Schwartz is at the podium. Both are from Manhattan’s Park Avenue Synagogue. (Abe Foxman)
April 24, 2025, 9:59 am
Remembering Pope Francis
Abraham Foxman describes a Vatican leader solidly aligned with Jews but often antagonistic on Israel
By Joanne Palmer
April 24, 2025, 9:58 am
Instagram bans, unbans Iron Dome Coffee
Founder fights stealth decision, gets surprise reinstatement after deluge of antisemitic and anti-Israel hate posts 
By Joanne Palmer
The bridesmaids display their dresses at Debra Mazon’s brother’s wedding.
April 24, 2025, 9:57 am
When traditions go sideways
Wedding dresses, pregnancy-reveals, even Thanksgiving turkeys, fuel fond family lore
By Debra Mazon
April 24, 2025, 9:56 am
Survivor siblings remain ‘Unbroken’
New documentary follows all seven who hid outside Berlin, then thrived here
By Curt Schleier
Alexander Smukler gives a samizdat copy of “Exodus” to its author, Leon Uris, in Moscow in 1989.
April 17, 2025, 9:58 am
Every generation has its own pharaoh
Alexander Smukler remembers the time in Moscow when he had to go onstage to denounce Israel
By Joanne Palmer
Idina Menzel and Khaila Wilcoxon star in “Redwood.” (Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)
April 17, 2025, 9:57 am
Climbing a tree, nourishing the soul
Theater director Tina Landau seamlessly combines family pedigree and Jewish values
By Curt Schleier
Rabbi Daniel Cohen, left, Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner, and Rabbi Samuel Klibanoff
April 10, 2025, 9:57 am
In his first Senate vote, Kim is against aid to Israel
169 New Jersey rabbis, from all streams,  join to condemn his decision
By Joanne Palmer
JPlay, at Temple B’nai Abraham in Livingston, was in JASA’s first cohort; it opened in 2022.
April 10, 2025, 9:56 am
Jewish Kids Group comes to South Orange
Joins B’nai Abraham in Livingston in program from Atlanta-based program
By Leah Adler
The shell of a car is part of the damage left after a Russian missile attack in Krivoy Rog, Ukraine, on April 4. (Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Civil Administration Serhiy Lysak/Handout/Reuters)
April 10, 2025, 9:55 am
Where is the ring of power?
Our analyst looks at the chaos in the world and how it’s affecting Ukraine, Russia, Israel, and us
By Joanne Palmer
Andy Borowitz
April 10, 2025, 9:53 am
Andy Borowitz said what?
New Yorker humor columnist — and political pundit — is coming to Morristown
By Curt Schleier
Rabbi Steven Burg, left, Rabbi Elliot Mathias, Rabbi Marc Katz, and Rabbi Shira Gluck
April 3, 2025, 9:58 am
Yet another look at local WZC delegates
This week we talk to members of Aish Ha’am and Vote Reform slates
By Joanne Palmer
Yonah Levenson in Tel Aviv. ( All images courtesy Yonah Levenson)
April 3, 2025, 9:57 am
We and Satmar chasidim live in very different worlds
Talking to someone very unlike me on a flight from Tel Aviv
By Yonah Levenson
April 3, 2025, 9:56 am
Creating a kid-friendly haggadah
Inviting children’s hearts into the Passover story by the numbers
By Lonye Debra Rasch
The group from Northwest Bergen County’s Chabad CTeen is in Times Square after Havdalah. (All photos courtesy CTeen)
April 3, 2025, 9:56 am
CTeens take Manhattan
Massive Chabad Shabbaton  includes making Havdalah in Times Square
By Deb Breslow
Deb Breslow smiles behind her mother-in-law, Gloria Breslow.
April 3, 2025, 9:55 am
Moving beyond the paralysis of grief
A newly empty seat at the seder can also lead to new possibilities
By Deb Breslow
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