JERUSALEM (JTA) — Sports fans aren’t the only people paying attention to Israeli soccer. A string of ugly incidents has caused Israelis to focus on the problems of violence and racism within the sport. More...
Town:Cherry Hill Family:Adult son anddaughter, fourgrandchildren Favorite Children’sBooks:Dr. Seuss series Favorite Adult Book:“Sarah’s Key’ Favorite food:“Any kind of goodfood! More...
Governor Chris Christie, First Lady Mary Pat Christie and their family visit the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, Israel on Monday, April 2, 2012. More...
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Peter Beinart has had some harsh words for the Jewish establishment. In 2010, he shook up the communal debate over Israel with his essay “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment.” More...
Mark and Barbara Jacobs along with Arthur and Janet Simons, all of Cherry Hill, announce the engagement of their children, Danielle Lustig Jacobs to Jeffrey Scott Simons. Danielle graduated from Syracuse Univ. with a B.S. More...
Fradele and Harry Feld of Cherry Hill, and Jack and Marina Shook, also of Cherry Hill, announce the engagement of their children, Dr. Ross Feld and Arsinoe Shook, Esq. More...
ADATH EMANU-EL JAKE DEMO, son of Wayne and Keri Demo, on Apr. 14. JADEN HOPE PALEY, daughter of Nancy Paley, on Apr. 21. NOAH ETHAN MICHAUD, son of David and Saralee Michaud, on Apr. 21. More...
Since the White House rejected Israeli President Shimon Peres’ April 9 appeal to commute convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard’s life sentence, many leading U.S. More...
Your article dated March 21, 2012, “New Technology aiding Israel in latest clashes with Gaza terrorists,” was interesting for what it did not say. More...
Yom HaShoah is well-known to all of us as Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was inaugurated by Israel’s Knesset in1953, and was signed into law by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. More...
Israel’s Interior Minister Eli Yishai has declared German Nobel prize-winning poet Gunter Grass a persona non grata in Israel. Grass, who recently published a poem claiming that Israel is endangering world peace by threatening Iran, will More...
Police arrested two secular Jewish teenagers hired to implement gender segregation on Jerusalem buses. The teens, aged 16 and 17, reportedly stood at a bus stop near the Dung Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem on Monday, April 9 and used a megap More...
Senior Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi expressed concern over the recent arrests of Palestinian journalists and bloggers over comments critical of the Palestinian Authority. More...
(The following is adapted from information received from the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI), one of the major agencies funded in Israel by the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey.-Editor) More...
SAUL S. ARTIS, DDS, of Haddon Twp., died on Apr. 1. Husband of Frances F. (nee Levin) Artis. Son of Lena (nee Salzman) and Sam Artis. Father of Kenneth J. Artis, Dale Hackerman (David) Brandt and Nancy Artis (Fred) Rosen. More...
FRIDAY, APRIL 20 TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM Morning Minyan Services at 7 a.m. followed by a bagel breakfast. Contact Zelda Greenberg at zgreenberg @yahoo.com. Taste of Shabbat at 5:45 p.m. followed by a Carlebach Service at 6:15 p.m. More...
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 MOSAIC OUTDOOR CLUB OF PHILA. Dinner and planning meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Gallo’s Seafood in Northeast Phila. RSVP to Jon at 787-0325. FRIDAY, APRIL 20 CONG. BETH EL More...
FRIDAY, APRIL 20 ADATH EMANU-EL Tot Shabbat at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome. Call 608-1200. Temple Emanuel Tot Shabbat Pot Luck Dinner and service at 6 p.m. We provide the chicken, you provide the rest. Open to all. More...
I still remember those immortal words. “We’ll never fill these closets!” That was my statement when we moved from our wonderful but closet-challenged old house into our new digs a decade ago. More...
I was sad reading news reports as the legendary Eastman Kodak Company sank into bankruptcy a few months back, but I also realized that it was time to protect my video activities from Kodak’s announced intentions to shut down virtually all of it More...
JENNIFER WEISS Executive Director Jewish Family & Children’s Service
When you are in the business of caring for individuals in need, it takes money and legislation to do your job well. The more you have of each, the more you can help. More...