January 6, 2009
A leading figure in Modern Orthodoxy, speaking in Edison, urged cooperation with other dominations and the wider world on matters of common interest. Read More
January 6, 2009
Hanukka — with its traditions of giving gifts, singing songs, and spinning dreidels — is often thought of as a child-centered holiday. But, as a local rabbi told a gathering in Highland Park, the themes of religious freedom, hope, possibility, and standing up to assimilation make it a festival very much for adults.Read More
January 6, 2009
In what was an otherwise joyful celebration of the first night of Hanukka, the crowd gathered at the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe stood silent and introspective as the rabbi who took over for a murdered colleague in India spoke to them by phone.Read More
January 6, 2009
Youngsters at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Raritan Valley did their part last month to help Jewish communities around the world. Read More
January 6, 2009
A national community affairs expert urged local Jewish leaders to reach across religious, ethnic, and denominational lines to confront such issues as poverty, tensions in the Middle East, and concerns about an aging population.Read More
January 6, 2009
Ben-Ami Kadish, a former U.S. Army mechanical engineer, pleaded guilty on Dec. 30 in federal court in Manhattan before U.S. Magistrate Theodore H. Katz to one of the four charges of conspiracy he originally faced. Read More
January 1, 2009
Rutgers Hillel made its mark on Broadway when about 75 students and supporters were invited to the Great White Way. The group went to the Bernard Jacobs Theatre on West 45th Street on Dec. 11 to see the play 13, a musical about a New York boy about to celebrate his bar mitzva whose parents’ divorce brings him to a small Indiana town. Read More
13th of Tevet, 5769
January 9, 2009 | 4:30 p.m.
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