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‘Imagine. Create. Perform.’
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Joanne Palmer
Rebecca Lopkin’s Teaneck-based school theater company helps children collaborate and grow
‘Democracy, it just works’
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Larry Yudelson
Small group of local protestors sparks second shift for Magen David Adom fundraiser
The vaxx wars
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Joanne Palmer
As a Monsey rally advocates against measles vaccines, local activists push back
Remembering Stephen P. Cohen
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Larry Yudelson
Fund in Teaneck intellectual’s memory supports coexistence efforts in Israel
‘Hill 54 does not answer’
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Charles Ticho
Hackensack filmmaker recalls making the film in Mitzpe Ramon in 1954
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Banji Ganchrow
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I love taking pictures. Even when I was younger, I always had whatever camera was in style. Remember Polaroids? You took a picture, it magically came out instantly, and then you could watch it develop. It was truly miraculous. Of course if you put your fingers on it accidentally the whole thing got ruined and it was really cool to dissect the actual picture to see what was going on — though they were a little on the expensive side, so you tried to be as careful as possible. If you...
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The JCC’s Rubin Run and Yom Ha’atzmaut festivities kept going, as more than 1,100 people embraced Israel
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Joanne Palmer
Elizabeth Holtzman will discuss impeachment — and much more — for NCJW in Teaneck
Seeing a challenge, not a disability
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Abigail Klein Leichman
Representatives of the Jerusalem Institute for the Blind, in Teaneck for Shabbat, teach and learn in North America
Social media to the rescue
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Larry Yudelson
Retired Israeli ambassador Ido Aharoni will speak in Teaneck
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Lois Goldrich
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Rinat in Teaneck to host series of talks by young scholars this Shabbat
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Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day has become a touchy subject — and with good reason. There are women who want to be mothers and have not been able to achieve that goal because of circumstance or health restrictions. There are those who have lost their mothers, who don’t speak to their mothers, who don’t know who their mothers are. There are mothers who have lost children. The day can be extremely painful for some people. To those of you in any of those circumstances, I am very sorry, and I hope that...
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Meet the next Jewish astronaut
Why it pays to read Hebrew
By
Larry Yudelson
United Arab Emirates to get official rabbi
By
Ron Kampeas
Israeli restaurant named best in the U.S.
By
Josefin Dolsten
Ashkelon’s road safety illusion
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Larry Yudelson
Sweden and the survival of the Yiddish
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Larry Yudelson
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Larry Yudelson
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Here’s the (actual) first Jewish woman to finish the Iditarod sled dog race
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Blair Braverman is the first Jewish woman to finish the Iditarod sled dog race
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Emily Burack
Israel healthier by far than U.S.
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Naama Barak
Israeli spacecraft snaps orbital selfie
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Marcy Oster
KFC set to relaunch in Israel
Israeli court nixes Sperminator donation
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Marcy Oster
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IDF salutes American volunteers in 1948 War of Independence
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Valley Chabad honors teens
A new mezuzah for 38th legislative district office
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Sharsheret benefit names honorees
Woodcliff Lake shul will offer comprehensive study of Judaism
JNF women’s meeting features dinner, boutique, and speaker
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‘Democracy, it just works’
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Larry Yudelson
The vaxx wars
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Joanne Palmer
Walk, family fun day to help those with special needs
At Lillian’s Café
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Joanne Palmer
Orangeburg shul to celebrate educational director’s retirement
Interfaith dinner in Rockland
Security for all students
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Joanne Palmer
JFNNJ trains educators on anti-Semitism awareness
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Lo Levad
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Joanne Palmer
Remembering Lillian Adler and her Rockland contributions
Rockland taking registrations for Celebrate Israel parade
How hate grew
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Joanne Palmer
Israel Bonds and the New City Jewish Center
‘A desecration of memory’
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Joanne Palmer
Jack Attack
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Abigail Klein Leichman
Two rabbis, two equals, one synagogue
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Joanne Palmer
‘The Samuel Project’
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Larry Yudelson
Rockland trip planned to see freight car at NY museum
Honoring Lillian Adler in Rockland
‘Shoelaces’
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Larry Yudelson