News Archive

New Jersey Jewish News (3/29/17)
They expressed relief, concern, embarrassment. They worried about copy-cat calls and being the community that cried wolf. They felt the damage had already been done.

New Jersey Jewish News (3/24/17)
From the moment in 1947 when he assumed the pulpit at Temple B’nai Jeshurun in Newark, Rabbi Ely Pilchik began making his mark on the Jewish community, in New Jersey and beyond.

New Jersey Jewish News (3/8/17)
‘Today we stand and we speak together,” Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) told a crowd several hundred strong last Friday in Tenafly. “Today,” declared the Cuban-American Roman Catholic, “we say, ‘We are all Jews.’”

New Jersey Jewish News (2/27/17)
On Thursday, the Write On students began their day at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). The 43 students had the privilege to hear first from Ron Gerstenfeld, Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the MFA. Gerstenfeld provided a history of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movemen

New Jersey Jewish News (2/1/17)
JCC MetroWest in West Orange received a bomb threat by telephone mid-morning on Tuesday, Jan. 31. Everyone in the building was evacuated safely. No bomb was found, and the building was reopened at approximately 1:15 p.m.

New Jersey Jewish News (1/25/17)
One day after bomb threats to the JCC of Central New Jersey in Scotch Plains and the JCC of Middlesex County in Edison, Jacob Toporek, executive director of the NJ State Association of Jewish Federations, urged the State Legislature to expand security grants for vulnerable institutions.

New Jersey Jewish News (1/18/17)
In the past, Jewish education has stressed the transmission of knowledge, skills, and literacy, but, said Bryfman, that approach “no longer works.” The Jewish Education Project, a nonprofit that works with Jewish educators and clergy, released a study in April highlighting that members of Gen Z — the cohort right behind millennials — prize personal happiness above all else.

New Jersey Jewish News (1/18/17)
Elderly Holocaust survivors are the unlikely beneficiaries of a new initiative launched by a home for abandoned, abused, and neglected children in Odessa. The Tikva Children’s Home in the Ukrainian city, which has helped 1,500 Jewish children since its inception in 1996, will be reaching out to the estimated 3,000 aging Holocaust survivors living below the poverty line in Odessa and its environs.