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Rosh Hashanah 2025

In 2025, Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on Monday, Sep. 22 and ends at sundown on Wednesday, Sep. 24. What is Rosh Hashanah?     Rosh...

Jewish Tips to Get You Through the Back-To-School

Preparing for a brand-new school year, with some Jewish wisdom The back-to-school season is, for all intents and purposes, a period of pure parental mayhem....

Home From Camp & Back to School

Camp ended.     I can’t believe it’s over. All of a sudden, I transitioned from the tie-dyed 24/7 magic of camp to the polo...

Back to School

There’s a Prayer for That I feel a little anxiety. A little sadness. I’m excited, but also a little helpless. For the first time, my kids...

Open Roads Open Everything

Driving gives me time for podcasts and perspective “While it’s you who leaves a place, and you who arrives in a place—right?—it isn’t necessarily you...

Traveling the World to Ensure the Jewish Future

I’m going to be busy this coming week. I’m heading to Israel, England, Iran, Canada, China and Jamaica. There will be music, exotic foods,...

Jewish Travel

Club Kosher Provides kosher vacations to a variety of tropical and exotic destinations throughout the Caribbean, Costa Rica, Mexico and Europe http://www.clubkosher.com Heritage Retreats Offers Jewish retreats in...

The Parents’ Role in a Bar/Bat Mitzvah Service

Traditionally, the father recited one blessing during the service, but today, parents are often much more involved. In a strictly traditional bar mitzvah celebration, the...

Brain Games

Crafts Can Stimulate the Mind May was Mental Health Awareness month, which inspired the thought of sharing how various art activities and utilizing different mediums...

Bar and Bat Mitzvah 101

Coming of age for a Jew, which happens automatically at age 13 for a boy and 12 for a girl, is termed bar and...

Strength, Stress & Support

A Portrait of American Jewish Teen Well-Being Today’s teens face numerous pressures: academics, social dynamics, identity formation, and the complex act of becoming. For Jewish...

Art & Camp

Bring some color to the summer camp experience.  Art can have a powerful and positive impact on a child's life. The best part is, art...

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JLife Extra NJ- May 1, 2026

Alyson Richman, author of The Missing Pages, will appear at 11 a.m. on Sunday, May 3 at Congregation Torat El in Oakhurst. The book is...

A Camp Dream

The magic of a special needs camp. Camp has been a magical time for all seven of our children. They’ve had a wide range of...

Tikkun Olam

A partnership with nature. It is fitting that Earth Day was recently celebrated since a huge part of a camper’s experience of going to camp...

Creating a Cooperative Community

“The friends you make become a part of you.” These words are sung as part of the classic camp song “Stars in the Sky.” Ringing...

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