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Timeless Delights

High Holiday Recipes Passed Down Through Generations This year the High Holidays are late. (Rosh Hashanah begins October 2 and Yom Kippur, October 11.) As...

Not Just Nourishment

Symbolic Foods To Mark the New Year What would a New Year be without omens? And, what would those omens likely be if not food?...

Rosh Hashanah History

How the Jewish New Year became a major holiday. In light of the centrality that Rosh Hashanah , the Jewish New Year festival, has assumed...

Get Crafty

The high holidays can be a time of chaos, especially if you have young children. It’s also that one time of the year that...

Hazzan Sheldon Levin Retires After 25 Years at Neve Shalom

A Jewish musical era has ended in Metuchen with the retirement of Hazzan Sheldon Levin. For 25 years, he has served at Congregation Neve Shalom,...

Kavana

Open Awareness on Rosh Hashanah There is  a debate in the rabbinic tradition concerning whether or not mitzvot need kavana (“intention”). That is, does one...

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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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