2009 Archive (through August 13)

• August 13, 2009

• Love in a warm climate

• July 16, 2009

• Beyond the cringe
• When every minute counts

• July 9, 2009

• How a suburban ‘pisher’ became an urban guerrilla
• How to stay motivated in your job search

• July 2, 2009

• ‘Yoo-hoo, Molly Berg’
• The write stuff

• June 25, 2009

• The secret Jews of the Southwest
• Coming-of-age novel set in the prestate Yishuv

• June 18, 2009

• Father's Day is also Stepdad’s Day
• Choosing an adult day center

• June 4, 2009

• Taking ‘Heart’ from a famed Newark high school

• May 28, 2009

• On Shavuot, why is that calligraphy singing?
• Grilling sparks up Shavuot dairy fare
• The Middle East in 17 syllables

• May 21, 2009

• Yom Yerushalayim: The third piece of the puzzle
• Problems between Palestinians hinder peace

• May 14, 2009

• Into the mystic

• May 7, 2009

• Can we talk?
• Writing what you know: Often a great notion

• April 30, 2009

• Not your rabbi’s Bible
• ‘Slim Peace’? Fat chance

• April 23, 2009

• The Hebrew School Project
• Preparing for the job interview

• April 16, 2009

• New books mark Yom Hashoa observance
• Welcoming your loved one back to MetroWest

• April 9, 2009

• NJ author Dara Horn makes return trip

• April 2, 2009

• Novel considers role of Jews during the Civil War

• March 26, 2009

• A ‘Home’ of their own, and more

• March 19, 2009

• Shoa-themed book is subject of local ‘Big Read’
• Musical tribute to a ‘Pied Piper’
• Daddy issues abound in tale of thwarted terrorist
• Can lovers bridge Mideast divide?

• March 12, 2009

• Retired? Not yet — Going back to work

• March 5, 2009

• To life, to life — to Topol

• February 26, 2009

• Singer promises evening filled with ‘gospel vibe’
• Jewish love story set in a ‘disappointed world’

• February 19, 2009

• How Jews segregated and integrated Levittown
• Mia Kirshner documents a different ‘L’ word

• February 12, 2009

• On the road to Damascus
• A Jane Austen classic reset in the Galilee

• February 5, 2009

• Award-winning Bell rings in Defiance

• January 29, 2009

• Expert tips for the phony bar mitzva boy
• Super noshing through the big game

• January 22, 2009

• Never forget Gilad Shalit

• January 15, 2009

• The end of the world as we know it
• The beginning of the end?

• January 8, 2009

• Between two worlds
• Jeff Goldblum Resurrected in new film

• January 1, 2009

• Taking it off
• Combatting a stigma: Mental illness in a Jewish world

2008 Archive

• December 25, 2008

• Saying ‘Never again’ to Holocaust movies
• Growing older, together
• Winter got you down?

• December 18, 2008

• On becoming a Jewish novelist
• You must remember this: When vinyl was king
• The beginning of the end?

• December 11, 2008

• Israeli cookbook traces a culinary journey
• Montville survivor stands proud in face of Defiance
• A time to bring light into the world

• December 4, 2008

• A message of community and courage
• Tour offers slice of NY
• The ‘privileges’ of mixed marriages

• November 27, 2008

• Coping with the crisis
• An examination of Judaism’s premier thinker
• PBS concert features wide range of stars
• A jarring Mason? Comedienne follows in father’s footsteps

• November 13, 2008

• Holidays and your aging parent
• The truth behind ‘Lies’
• Forget us not: memorializing the Warsaw Ghetto

• November 6, 2008

• Jersey’s ‘Society’s Child,’ all grown up
• Haunting memories of two days in Germany

• October 30, 2008

• Places and spaces
• All that remains
• “All Israelites have a portion...”
• Inside the Jewish art world, bluster and murder

• October 23, 2008

• Matisyahu shatters conception of ‘Jewish’ music
• A homecoming for Homeland writer

• October 16, 2008

• A Soviet Simhat Torah
• Musical conversion
• Looking down from ‘Balconies’ at a literary life
• The Sandwich Generation

• October 2, 2008

• A midlife sukka
• Asking for forgiveness:
  an act of courage and redemption
• Documentaries examine anti-Semitism past, present

• September 18, 2008

• Beautiful Barcelona and its Jews of today and long ago
• Do not forsake me

• September 11, 2008

• Putting the heartache of 9/11 on the canvas
• No ‘Quarrel’ with Shabbat
• They pay you for this?

• September 4, 2008

• Rejoice!
• ‘You are the instrument’
• Better Yiddishkeit through tumbling
• Israeli trip an ‘eye-opening’ experience

• August 28, 2008

• Keeping a culture alive through food
• Parents as life coaches
• Stories about surviving and pains that come after
• Novel explores a dire result of stress in teens

• August 21, 2008

• A literary ‘schlub’ missile
• For adult disabled age is just a number
• Just short of shmaltzy and more than a little Jewish

• August 14, 2008

• Looming Large
• TV reality series goes to the dogs

• August 7, 2008

• Writing your own Tisha B’Av dirge
• Turning up the Heat for Israeli basketball

• July 31, 2008

• The wisdom of yahrzeit

• July 24, 2008

• The art of the pulpit
• A Jewish ‘Joker’
• Second-guessing can hurt in more ways than one

• July 17, 2008

• Safer transportation for the older driver

• July 10, 2008

• So far away

• July 03, 2008

• Will the ‘real’ Kabala please stand up?

• June 26, 2008

• Elusive actress Winger pens autobiography
• Sister act: Rabbi recounts life with sassy Sarah Silverman
• New Jersey cantor weaves tapestry of expression

• June 19, 2008

• A case of stolen identity — and Shoa obsession

• June 12, 2008

• Folksbiene salutes ‘comic genius’ Carl Reiner

• May 29, 2008

• NJJN music critic Jerry Ben-Asher dies at 91
• Voice of a people
• To save a life, you must know how

• May 22, 2008

• Four steps to the fountain of youth

Home movies 05.15.08

Angel and the bad man? 05.08.08

Charleston: Southern charm, the Spoleto Festival, and kosher, too 05.01.08

Good-bye, matza. Hello, lo mein. 05.01.08

A peaceful solution 05.01.08

Depression 04.24.08

Passover: The home stretch 04.24.08

Passover cookbook blends ‘new’ and ‘healthy’ 04.17.08

A son comes out, and family and faith embrace him 04.10.08

Young composers strike a winning note at Rider 04.10.08

1,200 questions 04.10.08

A musical road to peace 04.03.08

Novel is a family affair for Glen Ridge writer 04.03.08

The life of the skies: Bird-watching inspired by Jewish thought 04.03.08

Film festival celebrates Israel’s 60th 03.27.08

Cartoon swastikas? 03.27.08

Plans get 86-ed in ‘Sixty-Six’ 03.27.08

‘Slim Peace’? Fat chance

A Manischewitz writes family history of kosher food giant 03.27.08

Writing Aviva 03.20.08

Lior's prayers 03.20.08

Finding the right place for Mom or Dad 03.20.08

Dylan, Guthrie…and Kerner 03.13.08

For women only 03.13.08

A ‘Jem’ of a documentary on the Jews of Uganda 03.06.08

For women only 03.06.08

My ‘lost tribe of Egypt’ 02.28.08

Kosher bard 02.28.08

Facing a moral dilemma in The Counterfeiters 02.21.08

Coen brothers to bring Chabon’s ‘Sitka’ to screen 02.21.08

Author describes tests facing Ethiopian Israelis 02.21.08

In the beginning was the WORD 02.14.08

Meal-prep firm caters to special diets 02.14.08

Art of the state: Israel’s ‘Gen-X’ filmmakers 02.05.08

At a loss for words 02.05.08

The language(s) of immortality 02.05.08

A rabbi’s journey to tolerance 01.31.08

Lessons from a hummingbird 01.31.08

The poster boy’s story: stranger than fiction 01.31.08

Fuhgeddaboutit? | A Jewish perspective on the multicultural ‘Sopranos’ 01.24.08

Who will care for the caregivers of frail elders? 01.24.08

TuB'Shevat | Will you speak for the trees? 01.17.08

A seder to celebrate the trees 01.17.08

Nathan Zuckerman’s tangled swan song 01.17.08

Historic 'Agreement' 01.10.08

Getting dumped 01.10.08

Moscow Spotlights 01.10.08

Family pictures at an exhibition | Black and White 01.03.08

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a Jew! 01.03.08

Moscow Spotlights The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in Time of Revolution 01.03.08

2007 Archive

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'Derech eretz' an old parenting ally for a New Year 12.20.07

WHAT EXIT? 12.20.07

East meets 'ess' - Japanese cuisine for the kosher kitchen 12.06.07

Iran is all words — but words have consequences 12.06.07

Inside the box 11.29.07

A light bulb moment 11.29.07

Fellow travelers for the season 11.29.07

High Tech Hanukka 11.29.07

Holiday Sounds 11.29.07

'I was lucky' 11.22.07

Terminated 11.22.07

A separate peace 11.15.07

Scholar asks why bad things happen to good religions 11.08.07

Searching the shadows 11.08.07

Raising kids Jewishly in a 21st-century world 11.08.07

Huck Finn as a stylish, sexy Jewish immigrant 11.01.07

A new song
Musical musings from the inside 10.25.07

Oy, Jerusalem — a film better left undone 10.25.07

Racism and indifference to it marked '36 Olympics 10.25.07

Comic trip
A humorous look at the life of a contemporary, suburban — and Jewish — family 10.18.07

Finding strength one month at a time 10.18.07

One man's terrorist... 10.18.07

A Djerba odyssey
Recipes from the Land of the Lotus Eaters 10.11.07

Einstein bio reveals new facets to the 'locksmith' of the cosmos 10.11.07

The things we keep: The newspaper 10.11.07

Cajun cooking – the Big Easy in the kitchen 10.04.07

Reality in black and white 10.04.07

It's harder to keep the faith 09.20.07

Wishful policy-making 09.20.07

The Rosh Hashana rugelach 09.13.07

Artistic impressions 09.06.07

Bathing in the waters of paradise 09.06.07

Hitler and Germany's musical aristocracy 09.06.07

NJ filmmaker embarks on mission to film ‘triumphant' Shoa story

Despite real threats, the Jewish state has a future

'Primo Levi's Journey'
Too much journey, too little Levi 08.23.07

A hidden treasure
Annecy, near the French Alps, is unforgettable 08.09.07

Fiction filled with promises and first-rate writing 08.09.07

Fear and coping
Leonard Cole says America has a lot to learn from Israel 08.09.07

A sculptor's legend
Native New Jerseyan curates a exhibit of Louise Nevelson work 08.09.07

Forman film conjures Goya’s ‘Jewish’ ghosts 07.19.07

Outdoor summer fun for the whole mishpacha07.19.07

Autopsy on ‘degenerate art’
West Orange doctor examines the Nazis’ assault on modern painting and sculpture 07.12.07

Fated ‘Funny Girl’
West Orange performer comes full acting circle 07.12.07

Lives of semi-quiet desperation in the New Jersey suburbs 07.12.07

Guardian angel
A family’s rescue inspires daughter to create film 07.05.07

Avenue ‘K’ 06.28.07

Know thy enemy in order to stop him
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat 06.28.07

Hello Muddah redux
For former New Jerseyan, memories of camp, happy or not, still keep their grip 06.21.07

The Holocaust, Charles Reznikoff, and ‘found' poetry 06.21.07

The sounds of klezmer at the JCC 06.21.07

Finding new ways to honor our parents 06.14.07

Music and midrash
Partnership presents unique duet of song and study 06.14.07

Northern exposure: Imagining Yiddishland in Alaska 06.14.07

Being Jewish a lifelong process 06.07.07

The case for dialogue from a Palestinian moderate 06.07.07

And God said, ‘Let there be Boca' 05.31.07

Back to ‘El Avram'
Reliving the glory days of the storied Village nightspot, Watchung's Avram Grobard will bring his music to Clark 05.31.07

‘Holy Torah, Batman!'
New Jersey author mines the Batcave for spiritual and ethical messages 05.31.07

Nazis picked Jews as forgers in secret World War II plot 05.31.07

Reawakening the golem 05.24.07

A family spiritual countdown 05.17.07

Tri, tri again
Apply the rule of three to Shavuot feasting 05.17.07

Oh, mother! 05.10.07

A spring break like no other 05.10.07

The mother lode
Clark-born comedian mines her ‘outsider status’ for stage show and book on Jewish moms 05.10.07

Walls make bad neighbors
New Jersey author reaches back across a century and an ocean 05.03.07

Mastering our feelings:
Lessons learned from a rattlesnake 04.26.07

Travels with Ruth
Author's Jewish journey informs novel about the Torah heroine 04.26.07

Bubbe Maryasha 04.19.07

Denial denied
Play by quiz show host and NJ native explores issues of free speech and hatred 04.19.07

The not-so-humble olive – a special delicacy 04.12.07

The things we keep 04.12.07

Anatevka revisited
The Shtetl: New Evaluations 04.05.07

Font of beauty
Artist creates digital typeface reflecting sacred text 04.05.07

Jews on first
Little League edition 04.05.07

An Israeli icon’s early years
Israel Museum exhibit reveals richness of Reuven Rubin’s output in the Diaspora 03.22.07

Dance of the Lord
Liz Lerman brings her Dance Exchange to Newark for the premiere of a work about the nature of prayer 03.22.07

Gratitude
A pathway to happiness 03.22.07

Filmmaker explores his parents’ marriage 03.15.07

Film shows child survivors choosing life 03.08.07

Kid Kosher
NJ rapper uses ‘hip-hop Hebrew’ to get his message to teens 03.08.07

‘Single mom seeking’ a man who avoids drama and braids hallah 03.08.07

Sensual, sexy, corrupt France — and the woman who loves her 03.01.07

Hamantaschen fit for a queen
For a royal Purim, try poppy seeds again 02.22.07

If a tree falls in the forest, what do you hear? 02.22.07

A ‘modern Jewish mom’ offers hope to harried households on Shabbat 02.15.07

NJ entrepreneur’s ‘Perfect Gift’ celebrates adoptive families 02.15.07

On Israel —
The Jewish Divide Over Israel: Accusers and Defenders 02.15.07

What to really watch out for in the Mideast 02.15.07

Guiding New Jersey educator authors book to aid in raising teens 02.08.07

The February Dilemma?
A time for romance, flavanols, and embracing the unexpected 02.08.07

Director shares his ‘Blues’
Film festival to screen award-winning documentary 02.01.07

Pro-Nazi Hungary’s loss was free world’s gain 02.01.07

‘Tam’ on stage
Yiddishkeit is front and center in New Jersey couple’s production 02.01.07

The birds 02.01.07

A neoconservative sounds off 01.25.07

A guilt-free collaboration 1.18.07

Coming home
‘Brooklyn Boy’ explores passage of time with laughs and insight 1.18.07

Playing Mussolini, partly, and smartly, for laughs 1.18.07

Chicken soup and candlesticks
Rituals create family security 01.11.07

‘Hagiography’ of Sharon written by a confidant in race with death 01.04.07

Mini-MySpace 01.04.07

One Jew’s new view of the evangelicals
Brought up in Jersey, author finds himself a stranger in a strange pew 01.04.07

2006 Archive

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The healing artist
Daughter of Shoa survivor links painting and medicine 12.28.06

I’m dreaming of an inclusive Christmas 12.21.06

Mother of invention 12.21.06

Enough!
One-woman play brings terrorist victims to life — briefly 12.14.06

Apologies for FDR’s inaction don’t hold water
Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust 12.14.06

What’s a nice Jewish boy doing at the helm of a Christmas radio show? 12.14.06

Can’t we just be friends?
Prisoners: A Muslim & A Jew Across the Middle East Divide 12.07.06

Eclectic mix of music — hip-hop even —for holiday gift-giving 12.07.06

‘The birds and bees have left the building’ 12.07.06

Beet it!
Myriad uses for a colorful, versatile veggie 11.30.06

Stone soul
Memories of Jerusalem inspire New Jersey artist 11.30.06

Mitzva in 3D
Soft sculptures bring Israel to family’s celebration 11.23.06

Taking the blessing challenge 11.23.06

‘Covertly Jewish’
Hints of his Short Hills upbringing spice a writer’s Off-Broadway musical 11.16.06

Naming names
For Jack Klugman, a starring role recalls a fearful era 11.16.0

Graphic horror
A son’s memoir in words and pictures stands out among new Shoa books 11.09.06

Play on 11.09.06

A tapestry of words and song
Seminar to showcase American-Jewish music, poetry, and political thought 11.02.06

Princeton prof pens biography of poet, and Zionist, Emma Lazarus 11.02.06

I.B. Singer: prize-winning author, minimal mensch 10.19.06

Mellowed shtick
Comedian Robert Klein brings his vintage comedy to South Orange 10.19.06

Racial experiments give lie to ‘moral equivalency’ of suffering 10.19.06

Asserting Hitler’s ‘improbable’ debt to the dramas of Ibsen 10.12.06

‘One Jew Talking?’: Jackie Mason heads to Newark 10.12.06

Coming together under one roof 10.05.06

Get to know the other Bayonne 10.05.06

(Chinese) Apples for the New Year 9.28.06

In the midst of madness
New play explores interactions of characters struggling to be ‘good Germans’ 9.28.06

Jump for Joy
Celebrities are in the spotlight in Montclair exhibit marking the centennial of photographer Philippe Halsman’s birth 9.21.06

Noted writer’s shrill lamentation decries the ‘fallen-away’ Jews 9.21.06

Chicken soup for the spirit
NJ rabbi’s new anthology offers inspirational readings for Rosh Hashana 9.14.06

Painful family secrets focus of local author’s first novel 9.14.06

A ‘gem’ of a novel
NJ author draws on her upbringing to write ‘cathartic’ book for teens 9.07.06

An ‘eBay’ for lenders and borrowers, with an emphasis on Jewish values 9.07.06

How Hitler recruited the media in the war on Jews
The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust 9.07.06

From generation to generation
NJ Judaica studio carries on a family tradition of artistry born in Israel 8.31.06

When Jews rejoiced at black boxer’s knockout of Aryan champion
Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling and a World on the Brink 8.31.06

In survey of American-Jewish letters, a call for writers to own their past 8.24.06

Musical connections
New Jerseyan Scott Leader uses his art to put young people in touch with their Jewishness 8.24.06

How Yiddish satire, drama, comedy brought pleasure to the Diaspora 8.10.06

Love on the other side of 60
New Jersey director’s mother has a bright idea: a film on senior-set dating in snowbird land 8.03.06

Remembering a giant of British and Conservative Jewry 8.03.06

Turning points
with life coach Randy Nathan 8.03.06

Alohoy vey: Jewish life on laid-back Big Island requires drive 7.27.06

Cloth encounters
NJ author weaves tale of Paterson’s silk industry 7.27.06

Looking to past wars for insight into the present conflict
Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy 7.27.06

No meat for nine days?
No problem 7.27.06

A little song, a little dance, a little shpritz down your pants 7.20.06

Por Caridad 7.20.06

Uncovering a California library’s affinity for Nazi racism 7.13.06

Listen up
A round-up of CDs for a summer of musical delights 7.11.06

A triangle of love and faith
New play at NJ Rep examines mother-daughter tensions over an evangelist’s appeal 7.11.06

Jewish immigrants enrich American landscape in Ragtime 7.06.06

The paper chase: What to do with your kids’ old schoolwork 7.06.06

Jersey-raised director Bryan Singer lives a dream in bringing Superman back to the big screen 6.29.06

Funny, Dolly, you don’t look Irish 6.29.06

Memoir traces author’s quest for father’s hidden life and love 6.29.06

A real but limited role for neocons in the march to war 6.22.06

Random thoughts from a bat mitzva 6.22.06

Soup’s on for a savory summer spread 6.22.06

Newark-born author raises moral questions 6.15.06

Turning points 6.15.06

Crown Heights riot — fact, fiction, and plenty of blame 6.08.06

Experiment — and dip in for a snack or dessert 6.08.06

The doctor is in 6.08.06

No fiddle?
Rutgers Hillel group makes beautiful music without one 6.01.06

Shabbat dinner: the real Happy Meal 6.01.06

See Karl Run
Rutgers prof translates Yiddish poet’s groundbreaking Shoa novel 5.25.06

Elegy for Twinkies: OU? Oh, no! 5.18.06

Artistic horizons 5.11.06

Healthy living, luxury style 5.11.06

Kung pao to kugel 5.04.06

My son, the shepherd’s apprentice
Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria’s Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd 5.04.06

Tell me a story — Ellen Musikant 5.04.06

Kushner schools offer a second helping of their best-selling kosher cookbook 4.27.06

Unburied treasure 4.27.06

Big love, Jewish-style
Five gold bangles and worlds of difference 4.20.06

Liberator and liberated 4.20.06

Civil War seder 4.20.06

A writer finds a rueful smile in a Shoa memoir 4.20.06

Local artist and teacher combines art and Torah in her life and work 4.13.06

Beyond hate: NJ educator, subject of TV film on Shoa survival, recalls the pain and urges tolerance 4.13.06

CHEF JEFF: Orange you glad it’s Passover? 4.13.06

A pretty girl, a beautiful play 3.30.06

What makes this seder different?
Slapstick, shtick, and shmaltz 3.30.06

An office jerk or the image of God? 3.23.06

‘Altar Boyz’ didn’t leave me laughin’ 3.23.

Film festival showcases 14 NJ premieres 3.16.06

Japanese cooking for the kosher kitchen 3.16.06

Jerry Lewis, Newark’s own, recalls glory days with his pal Dean Martin 3.16.06

Mensch of La Mancha 3.16.06

Painting Elizabeth 3.09.06

Writer ‘rattles’ suburbia in a gossipy new novel 3.09.06

An emotional journey: Director discusses his Oscar-nominated film on anti-Nazi heroine 3.02.06

Moxie and miracles: Works of local puppeteer carry the spirit of her Yiddische grandmother and Queen Esther 3.02.06

Turning Points 3.02.06

An emotional journey
Director discusses his film on anti-Nazi heroine 2.23.06

Painting Elizabeth
Artist’s mural at Workmen’s Circle center celebrates the old days 2.23.06

Denying the refuters (Book review) 2.16.06

Be the class pet if you must 2.16.06

Our ‘daughter,’ the Israeli officer 2.16.06

Drawing on the Jewish experience 2.09.06

Inside the annex 2.02.06

Study of Nazi anti-Semitism refutes Hitler’s apologists 2.02.06

Out of this world 1.26.06

Why Jews fly south for the winter: poolside fun and pampering 1.19.06

Marinating made easy 1.19.06

Examining ‘The Right To Be Wrong’ 1.19.06

Author explores the double lives of fervently Orthodox ‘rebels’ 1.12.06

Children of shalom 1.12.06

Turning Points with life coach Randy Nathan 1.5.06