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April 2023

Breaking Away

The first Passover haggadah in Ukrainian marks a community’s break with Russia     For Michal Stamova, the challenge of translating Passover’s core text into...

Solving A Family Mystery

New Book Uncovers the Life of Renowned Yiddish Actress     Meryl Frank has always felt a strong connection to the Holocaust, sparked by her...

New All-Digital Hunger Museum

Charting US response to food insecurity through a Jewish lens     An 1888 portrait of Ellen Swallow Richards and her all-female home economics class...

Reach Out and Touch Someone

Synagogues expand communication efforts     As New Jersey emerges from winter and from Covid protocols, growth is an increasingly important priority among Monmouth and...

Girls’ Nights Out

Women gather for monthly get-togethers     When my husband and I first moved to Monmouth County, we were hoping to become friendly with a...

It’s a Date

Netflix’s ‘Jewish Matchmaking’ debuts May 3     A matchmaker who says she has successfully paired 200 Jewish couples is the star of “Jewish Matchmaking,” a...

Hametz is Serious Business

  Mrs. Emmert and the state of Israel     Among the Israeli government’s proposed new legislative measures is a bill having to do with taking...

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Cooking Jewish- Celebrating Mom

Throw Her a Tea Party of Her Own     While tea has been consumed in China for thousands of years, the idea of the...

The Essential “Jewish-ness” of Judy Blume

The new Amazon Prime documentary “Judy Blume Forever” may not focus on the author’s Jewish identity, but as an interfaith teen, it helped me...

Rite of Passage

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...