Strong words for Israel during debate for NJ Dist. 10 seat
Five candidates field questions at JCC in West Orange
May 24, 2012
Five Democrats seeking to replace the late Donald Payne in Congress pledged loyalty to Israel as they faced off in a debate May 23 at the Cooperman JCC in West Orange. Read More
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UJC federation board approves merger with Central
Unanimous vote is next-to-last step before creation of 'Greater MetroWest'
May 24, 2012
Members attending the annual meeting of the United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ unanimously approved its merger with Jewish Federation of Central NJ. Read More
Dist. 10 candidates field queries on debt, Israel
Democrats respond to CRC questionnaire
May 23, 2012
Aiming to succeed the late Donald Payne Sr. are State Sen. Nia Gill, Newark Councilman Don Payne Jr., Newark Councilman Ron Rice, Irvington Mayor Wayne Smith, Cathy Wright of Newark, and Dennis Flynn of Glen Ridge. Read More
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NJ religion-in-adoption bill heads for vote in legislature
May 23, 2012
NJ legislators are closer to passing a law that would require agencies to maintain a child’s religious upbringing when placing the child in an adoptive or foster home. Read More
Kushner alumnus urges students to ‘fight back’
Aaron Marcus recalls role at center of RU’s debate over Mideast
May 23, 2012
Aaron Marcus, a recent Rutgers graduate and pro-Israel activist at the center of campus controversy, pointed to his days at Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School as the beginning of his activism. Marcus, who graduated from Kushner in 2007, spoke to this year’s graduating class May 21 at the Livingston school about what they could expect when they get to college campuses and urged them to become activists themselves. Read More
Golda Och breaks ground on major renovation
Wilf family kickstarts construction to update 1950s lower school
May 23, 2012
Golda Och Academy lower school in West Orange launched its $7 million renovation with a ceremonial ground breaking on May 17. With shovels in hand, Jane and Mark Wilf of Livingston stood in front of the 60-year-old building and “dug” out the first dirt for the basement, joined by their son, Andrew, who is in the fourth grade, and Mark’s mother, Susie. Read More
Soul food
Synagogues plant gardens to feed the hungry
May 16, 2012
Broccoli, carrots, celery, and zucchini are emerging from the earth in a small open space on the grounds of Temple Emanu-El in Westfield, mostly within a garden box measuring four feet by eight feet. A team of volunteers recently harvested 38 heads of lettuce and donated them to the food pantry located at nearby Holy Trinity Church. The garden — initiated after assistant Rabbi Erin Glazer delivered a sermon about hunger at a High Holy Day service — sits right in the middle of the synagogue, in a glassed-in courtyard. Read More
District 9 contenders stake out views on the left
Rothman and Pascrell tout liberal credentials in Montclair U. debate
May 16, 2012
The issue of Muslim rights arose early in the hour-long debate between Democrats Bill Pascrell and Steve Rothman as the two men battled for political survival on a stage at Montclair State University. They met May 14 at the John J. Cali School of Music in the second of three debates, this one sponsored by The Record and Herald News and broadcast by NJTV, the state’s public television network. Read More
Event will gather generations of the Holocaust
Statewide ‘celebration of survivors’ will urge ‘passing the torch’
May 16, 2012
Generations of families touched by the Holocaust are being invited to join in a statewide “celebration of survivors,” in West Windsor on Sunday, June 10. The “Statewide Gathering of Generations of the Shoa” will be held at Mercer County Community College from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Read More
NJ rabbi joins effort to ban groups from parade
Targets deny charges by hawkish coalition that they support BDS
May 16, 2012
An e-mailed petition circulated by a hawkish pro-Israel coalition — and signed by at least one NJ rabbi — is demanding that a number of left-leaning groups be barred from marching in New York City’s annual Celebrate Israel Parade. The petition claims that the New Israel Fund and other groups that plan to march in the June 3 parade support or fund groups that support the BDS movement, whose followers call for an economic boycott of Israel. Read More
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