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Agudath Israel celebrates a 90-year milestone

In 1922, 30 families built the first home for a growing shul

Agudath Israel celebrates a 90-year milestone

Congregation Agudath Israel of West Essex in Caldwell is celebrating a milestone: the 90th anniversary of its very first building. The synagogue’s 30 founding families constructed that first home on Washburn Avenue in Caldwell in 1922, two years after they formally established themselves as a congregation. It was a one-room, stucco facility that served the congregation known then as the Jewish League of Caldwell. Since then, the congregation has moved once, expanded, changed its name, undergone two subsequent renovations, and grown to 940 families. Read More

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Therapist shares men’s ‘secrets’ with 500 women

M. Gary Neuman says, ‘We need to love, and feel connected’

Therapist shares men’s ‘secrets’ with 500 women

Like women, men crave to feel loved and appreciated, M. Gary Neuman says. But unlike women, men compartmentalize what goes on in their lives, and, whatever those compartments contain — marriage, work, or their favorite sports team — they love to win. So, in light of these “secrets” about men, his advice to wives is: “Make your husband feel like a winner.” Read More

Local leaders honored with national women’s award

Local leaders honored with national women’s award

Two close friends, Wendie Ploscowe of United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ and Freida Posnock of the Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey, have been named as Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland Award winners by their respective communities. Read More

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The Lilith women’s salon comes to Montclair

The Lilith women’s salon comes to Montclair

Lilith is now in Montclair. On May 6, about 15 women from Bnai Keshet gathered at the Montclair home of Jessica Siegel for a text-based discussion about women’s relationships through the lens of the Passover seder. The group, including women in their 30s as well as grandmothers and everyone in between, was led by synagogue member and Jewish educator Shoshana Silberman, author of A Family Haggadah. Read More

CNN analyst raises awareness of campaign issues

CNN analyst raises awareness of campaign issues

According to CNN news analyst Gloria Borger, in assessing the central issues in the upcoming presidential campaign — It’s the economy, stupid. In a talk to over 250 community members at the Aidekman campus in Whippany for Women’s Awareness Day on May 2, Borger offered her take on the 2012 presidential race. “There is a clear campaign choice,” she said. “These are two candidates with different visions for America on all kinds of levels.” Read More

For olim, what they need to succeed

Rishon Letzion partners celebrate anniversary of assistance program

For olim, what they need to succeed

The immigration and absorption of Ethiopian Jewry in Israel is a modern-day epic of the Jewish people. The community is overcoming the barriers and challenges of integration into Israeli society, due largely to the steadfast commitment of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s North American partners and the ongoing support of North American federations. Read More

Family reunion was centuries in the making

Family reunion was centuries in the making

Over 265 Schwarzes filled the social hall at Oheb Shalom Congregation on April 29, marking the reunion of family that can trace its roots to Bavaria in the late 1600s. Everyone in the room could link their lineage back to one of a later generation of 12 siblings, the children of Mendel Schwarz and Bella Adler of Floss, in what is now Germany. Seven of them came to the United States in the mid- to late 1800s. Read More

Israelis, Americans dialogue on identity

Peoplehood Project brings Ofakim visitors on a tour of the region

Israelis, Americans dialogue on identity

While Israel marked its memorial day and celebrated its 64th anniversary, the thoughts of 11 Israelis visiting the MetroWest community turned to home. Read More

Scholar helps shuls see beyond denominations

Rabbi Arthur Green to speak at synagogues that studied his work

Scholar helps shuls see beyond denominations

Last year, three friends who lead three synagogues of different denominations spent the year with Rabbi Arthur Green. Read More

Synagogue honors 65-year mainstay of its choir

Howard Haimann, 77, has performed under four different cantors

Synagogue honors 65-year mainstay of its choir

Howard Haimann, 77, of Morristown has been singing for a lifetime. By the time of his bar mitzva in April 1948, he was already a member of the choir at the Morristown Jewish Center. Read More

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4th of Sivan, 5772
May 25 2012 | 8:00 p.m.

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