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Synagogues plant gardens to feed the hungry

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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

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District 9 contenders stake out views on the left

Rothman and Pascrell tout liberal credentials in Montclair U. debate

District 9 contenders stake out views on the left

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’

Event will gather generations of the Holocaust

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

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NJ rabbi joins effort to ban groups from parade

Targets deny charges by hawkish coalition that they support BDS

NJ rabbi joins effort to ban groups from parade

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

Study festival energizes Jews with roots in FSU

Study festival energizes Jews with roots in FSU

For many of the 650 people from across the United States and Canada who came to Princeton the weekend of May 11-13, the Limmud FSU conference was an opportunity to explore their Jewish roots, strengthen their Jewish identities, and just have a good time with other Jews from the former Soviet Union. Read More

Groups largely unswayed by Israel’s Iran debate

Fearing nuclear threat, groups aren’t heeding some calls for caution

Groups largely unswayed by Israel’s Iran debate

The debate in Israel over confronting Iran is being mirrored locally, with most activists sharing the Netanyahu government’s dire assessments of Iranian nuclear ambitions and others arguing that the threat is not all that imminent. The latter view was bolstered in recent weeks, after at least four past and present high-level defense and security officials in Israel cast doubts on the urgency of action against Iran’s nuclear development. Read More

Hebrew U. plans new center for brain studies

Hebrew U. plans new center for brain studies

Professor Eilon Vaadia is fascinated by the brain — not what can go wrong with it but what enables such a complex, delicate structure to function well for as long as it does. As director of the new multi-disciplinary Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he and his team are doing groundbreaking work on how the brain works and how to restore function impaired by illness or injury. Read More

Inter-generational partners connect

Students, seniors share views on education, technology, values

Inter-generational partners connect

Sharing perspectives on the culture of youth today from far-distant points on the generational spectrum was the focus of a program held last Friday at the Daughters of Israel nursing home in West Orange. Read More

Kindertransport survivors share stories with students

Couple tell of being torn from parents during Shoa rescue

Kindertransport survivors share stories with students

More than 500 public and Catholic parochial school students, accompanied by their teachers, sat in rapt attention at the College of Saint Elizabeth on May 1 as two Jewish Holocaust survivors described being shipped away from their homes and parents during World War II. They were Kurt and Margaret Goldberger, two of 10,000 children whose lives were saved by the Kindertransport. Read More

JCPA: Protect campus Jews and free speech

JCPA: Protect campus Jews and free speech

With the troubles of a pro-Israel advocate at Rutgers University on their minds, representatives of New Jersey’s Jewish community relations organizations waged a losing battle to delete several paragraphs regarding free speech protections from a resolution that was passed at the Jewish Council for Public Affairs national convention. Read More

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