An Ambitious Vision

We’re embarking on a mission to make Jewish learning a more fluid, engaging experience year-round. We’ve created the JKid Educator Interchange to bring together key players in Jewish education to bring Jewish learning to life for our kids 365 days a year.

Perspective on the Eclipse

Today’s solar eclipse offers us the rare opportunity to simply look up at the sky and whisper Wow! As humans, made of the same stuff that comprise the sun, the moon, and all the heavens, that sense of amazement has an impact upon us.

My Trip to Berlin with my Twin Fred

By Howard Goldberg

You always hear people say that they took the trip of a lifetime. Well, I took the trip of two lifetimes. Those two lifetimes belong to my twin, Holocaust survivor Fred Heyman, and me, a 21-year-old kid from New Jersey.

When I met Fred nine years ago, I never could’ve …

Braving Tragedy Together

Last week, two young police officers guarding the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem were brutally murdered. They were both from the Druze community. One of the officers, Kamil Shanan, was from Horfesh, a village up North that has been a Greater MetroWest partner community for 11 years.

Creating a Caring Community Together Goes Global

Last month the Joint Chaplaincy Committee collaborated with one of our partners in Israel, Gisha L’chaim or Life’s Door, to hold a chaplaincy educational conference entitled, “Compassion and Hope in Aging, Illness and at Life’s End” as part of our new bi-national initiative.