10+ hour, 14+ min ago   (797+ words) When I meet with b’nai mitzvah students to talk about what it means to become an adult in the Jewish community, we talk about the word mitzvah. One of the things we discuss is that we will not always feel…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (230+ words) This has been an extraordinary few weeks in the Jewish world. One thing we see is that external threats still do have the ability to draw us together. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s vitriolic, unfulfillable threats against Israeli Prime Minister…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1088+ words) Synagogues, like many other institutions, want their leaders to be walking paradoxes. They should be young, vital, magnetic, able to attract young families with their enthusiasm and boundless, bounding energy. They also should be wise, carrying years of learning and…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (52+ words) The Jewish Standard Gary A. Rendsburg considers “In Search of David and Solomon” for Kol Rina in South Orange’s Independent Minyan on Zoom. Gary A. Rendsburg is the Distinguished Professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. 10:30 a.m....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (765+ words) When Deann Forman of Teaneck went to Israel earlier this month, she “rolled up her sleeves and spent the week doing some really intensive volunteer work,” she said. Ms. Forman is the executive director of the Center for Innovation and…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (77+ words) The Jewish Standard Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson, a bestselling author, leads “Your Purpose,” a program for Chabad of Hackensack. It’s about “Purpose — What will make you live longer, love more deeply, and live life more fully.” The program, on Tuesday June…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1515+ words) It sometimes might seem that we’re living in a binary world; Jew or non-Jew, Democrat or Republican, Mets or Yankees, Starbucks or Dunkin’, Zionist or hater. How important what you care about sometimes seems less important than the intensity you…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1656+ words) Akiva Shapiro of Teaneck is about to begin a new job. He will be the managing partner of the D.C.-based Holtzman Vogel law firm’s new New York office. That’s great for him, and presumably for Holtzman Vogel, but why does…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (885+ words) Nadav Tamir has long, impressive resume. He was born on a kibbutz — Manara, in the upper Galilee, near Kiryat Shmona and the Lebanese border — and he’s an IDF veteran who fought in the first Lebanon war, including the battle of…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1030+ words) The Jewish Standard You don’t see Russians being attacked on the streets just for being Russian, or Chinese people for being Chinese, or so on. Only Jews have the privilege of being targeted when the world decides that Israel has…...