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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 New Jersey- September 15, 2024

A free virtual forum between candidates in the 12th Congressional District will be hosted by the Jewish community relations councils of the Jewish Federation...

Jlife Buzz-Local Jersey Author Publishes First Book, A Different Sky

   “In the summer of 1973, on 20-year-old Rachel Rubin’s last college break before graduation, she travels to Israel while figuring out what to...

JLife Extra NJ September 1, 2024

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, president of Shurat Hadin-the Israel Law Center, will speak Friday, Sept. 6 at Chabad of the Shore in Long Branch on “Bankrupting...

Rosh Hashanah FAQ: All About the Jewish New Year

Your Rosh Hashanah questions answered What is Rosh Hashanah about exactly?     Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) is simultaneously a time of great celebration...

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