Life & Times

If you have information about a Jewish arts event, or New Jersey artist or author who focuses on Jewish themes, please contact NJJN Features Editor Ron Kaplan.

Kunstler’s daughters revive legacy in documentary

Kunstler’s daughters revive legacy in documentary

Late in their revelatory and inspiring documentary William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, Emily and Sarah Kunstler include a vintage clip of their iconic father delivering a pithy self-assessment. Read More

Computers and seniors do go together

Computers and seniors  do go together

Seniors and baby boomers are two of the Internet’s fastest growing segments and statistics show further engagement and communication within social communities. Seniors are utilizing high-visibility social outlets to learn, interact, and promote themselves. Read More

Prof taps Jewish background for novel

Prof taps Jewish background for novel

During a career spanning 41 years at Rutgers University and 13 books, Dr. Michael Aaron Rockland has tackled everything from the New Jersey Turnpike to the George Washington Bridge. Read More

If Rabbi Meir’s wife had a voice

Local author mixes fact, fiction to depict Jews of Middle Ages

If Rabbi Meir’s wife had a voice

If New Jerseyan Michelle Cameron could reach across the generations to her famous 13th-century ancestor, Rabbi Meir of Rothenberg, she knows exactly what she would ask. “What was it like to stand there in that Paris market square and watch the burning of the Talmud?” Read More

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Who says not every day is Purim?

Who says not every day is Purim?

When it comes to life in Israel, there’s a steady stream of reasons to laugh year-round. Just open the Hebrew papers on any given day for at least one incredible snippet of what passes for normalcy in the Jewish state. Read More

Volume considers Jewish gems of the ‘diamond’

Volume considers Jewish gems of the ‘diamond’

NJ Jewish News features and sports editor Ron Kaplan was asked to write the foreword for Jews and Baseball, Volume 2: The Post-Greenberg Years, 1949-2008, by Burton and Benita Boxerman. With Spring Training beginning this week, it seems like appropriate reading. Read More

The quandary in the closet

My uncle left behind some Nazi artifacts, and a dilemma for me

The quandary in the closet

Is it ever okay for Jews to benefit financially from the Nazis? This is not a hypothetical question. Read More

Artist, 95, shows his cards

Exhibit is celebration of a creative explosion that began late in life

Artist, 95, shows his cards

George Tarr’s home in West Orange is so full of his artworks, it’s quite clear that showing or selling them has never been his priority. The 95-year-old paints and sculpts and carves for sheer pleasure — and with apparently undiminished vitality. Read More

Living the ‘Impossible Dream’

NJ actor takes on coveted role

Living the ‘Impossible Dream’

Ken Wasser has played nearly every leading male role in musical theater. One role, however, always seemed an impossible dream — until now. When Man of La Mancha opens Thursday, Feb. 11, at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center in Deal, it will be Wasser treading the boards as Don Quixote. Read More

High hopes

Film about Weequahic alumni inspires a national schools campaign

High hopes

Beth Toni Kruvant’s father attended Newark’s Weequahic High School at a time when it was considered one of the best in the nation. It was more rigorous than the law school he attended, he would tell her. Read More

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