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Abigail Klein Leichman
These are the 2025 fellows in the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous’s Summer Institute for Teachers. (Jewish Foundation for the Righteous)
July 10, 2025, 9:56 am
Bringing the Holocaust closer to students
Teachers gain new tools and techniques at Jewish Foundation for the Righteous’s Summer Institute
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Paula Gottesman is in Afula in early 2023, launching the Gottesman Center for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. (Courtesy of Friends of Israel Sci-Tech Schools )
July 3, 2025, 9:58 am
‘If you don’t have a quality school system, no one’s coming back’
Gottesman Family Supporting Foundation’s gift nurtures Israel Sci-Tech Schools in northern Israel
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Screenshot from the film, showing the Holon travel poster.
June 26, 2025, 9:56 am
Air travel from a shoe’s view
Israeli American filmmaker’s narrative comedy screens in Jersey City
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Israelis receive an Extreme Alert several minutes before an air-raid siren is likely to wail. Translation: “Alerts are expected to be received in your area in the next few minutes. You need to improve your location for optimum protection nearby. In the event of receiving an alert, you must enter the protected area and remain there until you receive a new message. -- Home Front Command – lifesaving instructions”
June 20, 2025, 12:29 pm
Letter from Israel
When the best-laid plans go awry … again
By Abigail Klein Leichman
NASCK’s director of outreach and Project Last Kindness, Yael Davidowitz, is at the lectern.
June 12, 2025, 9:59 am
‘We act with respect for a body that housed a soul’
Participants report on the Women’s Chevra Kadisha leadership conference in Iselin
By Abigail Klein Leichman
March 27, 2025, 9:58 am
Alisa Flatow’s legacy inspires novelist
Teaneck author’s ‘Alive and Beating’ dramatizes organ donations
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Howard Mischel created this label for his homemade matjes herring.
March 27, 2025, 9:56 am
There will be herring!
From Teaneck to Modi’in, one maven’s passion for the fishy treat flourishes
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Israeli doctors and healthcare workers meet with their American counterparts in Teaneck. (Shahar Azran)
March 27, 2025, 9:54 am
Attracting medical professionals to Israel
In the midst of turmoil, MedEx fair helps ease the aliyah process
By Abigail Klein Leichman
From left, Student to Student ambassadors Sam, Marlee, Miles, Alex, and Jesse talk to a class of ninth-graders at Watchung Hills Regional High School.
March 13, 2025, 9:59 am
Student to Student clears the air
Jewish teens are trained as ambassadors to peers in the non-Jewish world
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Jane Eisner (Nancy Adler Photography)
February 27, 2025, 9:57 am
How to read the news without losing your mind
Journalist Jane Eisner investigates these and other questions as scholar in residence in Morris Plains
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Barak Hermann
February 6, 2025, 9:56 am
Building pluralism and community
New head of JCC Association reflects on his deep ties to New Jersey
By Abigail Klein Leichman
ON THE COVER: The mayor of Ofakim, Itzik Danino, and the mayor of Middletown, Tony Perry, sign a partnership agreement; the relationship was fostered by the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest. (Patrick Olivero)
January 9, 2025, 10:00 am
They’re sister cities now
Middletown and Ofakim sign agreement
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Meredith Lubin, left, Robin Gold, and Ari Feinstein
December 12, 2024, 9:57 am
Three sides to every argument
Local Jewish educators deepen knowledge of Mideast conflicts through the iCenter
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Melissa Gruhin of West Orange is one of the founds of Makers of Israel
December 12, 2024, 9:56 am
Supporting artisans in wartime
Makers of Israel website displays the talents and resilience of homegrown creativity
By Abigail Klein Leichman
Agam and Yarden Dadon are with their parents, Anat and Avi, in Israel.
November 27, 2024, 9:57 am
‘I had to come to Israel’
Two sibling pairs talk about becoming IDF lone soldiers
By Abigail Klein Leichman
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