AndrewThe preliminaries are over. Let the games begin. Now that we have presumptive candidates for both of the major parties, we can get a pretty good picture how each will troll for the elusive Jewish swing vote.
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A multilog with NJJN Editor-in-Chief Andrew Silow-Carroll. Read More
There may be no better occasion than the Fourth of July, our most patriotic of holidays, to call for a moratorium on declaring one’s patriotism. It seems the only people who must habitually declare their love of country are those who want to suggest others are less patriotic than they, or those, like Barack Obama, who are forced to fend off accusations that they are not sufficiently patriotic.
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July 3, 2008
In a pitch for closer relations between America’s black and Jewish communities, Georgia Congressman John Lewis told a multiracial audience in Englewood June 29 that members of the two groups “have a legacy and a history of working in struggle together.”
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July 3, 2008
Ten months after Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Essex County joined forces to raise money and recruit volunteers, construction is under way on an affordable home for a Newark family in a program sponsored by Habitat for Humanity.
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July 3, 2008
When Ivan Geldzahler was a little boy, he remembers the Jersey Shore town as “the cat’s meow. It was Asbury Park’s glory days,” he said.
Geldzahler, 56, and the original owner of Zayda’s kosher deli and butcher shop in South Orange, is betting that the once sparkling seaside resort town that for years has been beset by urban blight is about to make a comeback.
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July 8, 2008
Six months after four teens destroyed much of Poile Zedek Cemetery in New Brunswick in a drunken vandalism spree, about 200 community members and relatives gathered to rededicate the site with prayer and speeches.
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What do Madonna, Demi Moore, and Britney Spears have in common with 16th-century kabalist Rabbi Isaac Luria?
If you ask most Jews, absolutely nothing but a misguided belief that new-age teachings promoted at the Los Angeles Kabbalah Centre represent authentic Jewish mysticism.
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This week’s sedra opens with an arcane religious ritual that we might easily pass over were it not for the profound religious question it contains. The Bible classifies people who come into contact with a corpse (a relative, say, who dies at home) as ritually impure. The ritual in question prescribes the burning of a red cow, whose ashes “wash away” the impurity. With the destruction of the sacrificial system, the ritual ceased, but we still study it for what it can teach us.
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All Those Mornings…At The Post, an annotated collection of columns by the late sportswriter Shirley Povich, begins with his recollections of growing up in an Orthodox household in Bar Harbor, Maine.
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