You Should Know…Elvera Schwartz
Last week, Elvera Schwartz celebrated four years working at Jewish Relief Agency, a volunteer-led nonprofit supplying food and other necessities to those in the...
As Holocaust Survivors Die, Gratz and Theatre Ariel Try to Help Students Remember
At the start of the play “Survivors” on April 20 at Springfield Township High School, Springfield Middle School Principal Zachary Fuller asked students not...
Long-delayed Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Trial to Begin Monday
Every Thursday, Brad Orsini gets on a conference call ...
Descendants Preserve South Jersey’s Jewish Farming Community
Jewish people are no strangers to wandering through the wilderness. But the wandering hardly stopped after those biblical 40 years in the desert.
In the...
Making It Count: Area Jews Find Meaning in Omer Rituals
In 2000, Brandeis University health policy researcher Brian Rosman created homercalender.net. The concept is simple: You visit the site for each of the 49...
You Should Know…Susan Becker
While Susan Becker was in college at Penn State, she worked as a Hebrew school teacher and b’nai mitzvah tutor, teaching the next generation...
Yom HaShoah Event to Mark 80th Anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
There is a key difference between International Holocaust Remembrance Day, declared by the United Nations and taking place each January, and Yom HaShoah, established...
Last Word: History Professor Melissa Klapper Schools as Three-Day ‘Jeopardy!’ Champ
In just a matter of days, Melissa Klapper went from using “Jeopardy!” clues to teach her Women in Modern American History class to competing...
South Jersey Federation Launches Regional Security Partnership
On the upstairs floor of the Katz JCC in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, two retired police officers sit facing computer monitors. The township’s former...
Stepping up to the Seder Plate: Rabbis Consider Unconventional Passover Foods
Over the past few decades, new seder plate foods have joined some Passover tables.
Next to the maror, charoset, karpas and other symbolic snacks sit...
