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How Jewish Camps Can Help Forge Our “Jewish-ness”     There’s a first crush. A care package (with one of those popcorn tins). A friendship...

Jewish Summer Camps

The early bonds that bring us together.     Recently, I attended a bat mitzvah party in Cincinnati. The mother is a camp friend of...

How to Talk to Kids About the Darker Side of the Passover Story

In my house, when we start talking plagues, I know I need to be prepared for way more than four questions.     It didn’t...

The Weird Passover Tradition That Makes Me Miss My Dad

We don’t necessarily follow all the usual rules for Passover in our house, but this one is very important to me.     “Can we...

The Acting Bug

Jewish Actor Jack Black Caught it at a Passover Seder     Jewish dad Jack Black is such a singular talent. From “High Fidelity” to...

Mindful Mealtime

Jews Sit When They Eat and Other Useful Parenting Hacks      It’s almost dinnertime, and in a perhaps overly familiar parenting tableau, I am...

Family Activities for Passover

Art plus tradition equal bonding time.      The eight-day Jewish holiday Passover falls each spring, commemorating the Jews’ exodus from Egypt. Families typically gather...

Passing on the Passover Seder

Traditions to pass along to the next generation.     Every once in a while, it hits me like a soft pillow. I am a...

New Additions

  Who—What and Where —are PJ Library Ambassadors?     As a first-time mom during the height of Covid closures, Jacqueline Roberman-Glyn didn’t experience baby-and-me classes...

The Four Types of Tu Bishvat

The Jewish birthday for the trees has gone through several phases of historical development.     One can speak in general of four revealed, historical...

Tu Bishvat

What is the Festival of Trees All About? Tu Bishvat is a holiday that is sometimes called the New Year for Trees. It comes at...

Jewish Jokes for Kids

Everything is Better with a Smile     “Don’t smile until Christmas—er, I mean Hanukkah.”     That was the advice I kept getting from veteran...

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JLife Extra NJ- September 1, 2026

Temple Emanu-El High Holy Day Community Ticket Sale Guest tickets are available for all High Holy Day services, and we are committed to making sure...

Yom Kippur Yizkor Project

  A little girl pleaded with her mother to light Shabbos candles as she had learned in her Hebrew school class. The...

JLife Buzz- Community, Faith, and Firepower: Inside the GunsNMosesNJ 3rd Annual BBQ

    What began as a gloomy morning under a relentless downpour quickly gave way to clear skies, setting the stage for the third...

The Night Before, The Night Before Rosh Hashanah

'Twas the night before the night before Rosh Hashanah and all through the land, the rabbis were schvitzing, were their services all planned? Were the...

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