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Norcross requests security funding for South Jersey’s Jewish communities

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Jewish and Muslim women join together to promote peace & sisterhood

By SALLY FRIEDMAN For the Voice

A stranger seeing the women gathered in a living room in Voorhees one night this past Chanukah would likely have assumed they were old friends celebrating together. More...

Local News

His triumph over drug addiction inspires Christie’s efforts

MEET AJ SOLOMON…

By JAYNE JACOVA FELD Voice staff

FAMILY: Parents Lee and Dianne; brother Eric and sister Rachel AGE: 26 SYNAGOGUE: Temple Beth Sholom FAVORITE SPORT: Hockey FAVORITE MOVIE: “The Natural” As a newly minted college grad, AJ Solomon landed a plum first job in the Trenton o More...

Inclusive community celebrates Tu B’Shevat

In celebration of the Jewish New Year for Trees and Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month, Cong. More...

TALK TO US…

‘Who’s news?’ will appear on this page of every issue of the Voice. Does anyone you know belong here? More...

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Mideast

Despite losing Amona, Israeli settlers expect to win war for West Bank

By ANDREW TOBIN
JTA

AMONA, West Bank—In a dramatic clash with the settlement movement at this hilltop outpost, the state seemed to have won. More...

Bank of Israel releases designs featuring poets

Images of female Hebrew poets are featured on the new designs of the 20- and 100-shekel bills released by The Bank of Israel. The new bills reportedly will go into circulation by the end of the calendar year. More...

TA University ranked among best

A new study ranked Tel Aviv University among the top schools producing billion-dollar startups. More...

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Life Cycles

B’nai Mitzvah:

Adath Emanu-El JOSHUA JANOVE, son of Debra and Jerome Janove, on Feb. 11. More...

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Obituaries

OBITUARIES

MORRIS COHEN, most recently of Medford, and formerly of Mt. Laurel, Maple Shade and Cherry Hill, NJ, passed away on Jan. 27. Husband of the late Esther Cohen. Father of Mark (Rhoda) Cohen and Jodi (Alvin) Stern. More...

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Do It!

Calendar

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 ADATH EMANU-EL Sisterhood sponsors a Hamentaschen Cookie Swap at 7:30 p.m. benefitting Pediatric Cancer Research. A $5 donation gets a bag of six cookies. Call Karen at 609-577-0935. More...

Going Solo

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 CONG. BETH EL Singles Shabbat at 8 p.m. Open to all and free of charge. Call Norma Kamis at 662-7916. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 SOCIAL SINGLES OF THE KATZ More...

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Editorial

Vetted refugees must be permitted to settle in the U.S.

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time set aside to memorialize victims of the Nazi regime, including 6 million Jews, President Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending refugee settlement in America. More...

DRY BONES… A Family Outing in 2017

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Letters

What are we prepared to do as history repeats?

If you think this is the first time an American politician endeavored to keep foreigners out of America based on religion, I offer an intradepartment memo Breckinridge Long, an assistant secretary of state, circulated in June 1940. More...

Applauds recent opinion piece

KUDOS to Charlie Miller, who so brilliantly elucidated the true historical facts about Israel. (Jan. 18 Voice: “Obama’s partnership in the UN war on Israel”) It is shameful that Pres. Obama and Sec. More...

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Religion Column

‘An altar of earth or unhewn stones’

RABBI LEWIS J. ERON
Community Chaplain

Parashat YitroEx. 18:1-20:23 How does one come close to God and how does God come close to us? More...

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Candlelighting

Shabbat candlelighting

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Evacuation runs smoothly as Cherry Hill JCC among latest to receive a bomb threat

DAVID PORTNOE

The Jewish Community Center of Southern New Jersey became one of the latest Jewish institutions to receive a bomb threat. The threat came on Monday, Feb. 27 at 10:40 a.m. More...

Trump and Netanyahu: The mixed messages of a diplomatic lovefest

RON KAMPEAS
JTA

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Trump-Netanyahu meeting

Donald Trump, then a candidate for president, meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, Sept. 25, 2016. More...

Voice at the Shore

Nominations for Woman of Valor celebration due March 1

By ELLEN WEISMAN STRENGER
Voice shore editor

Wanted: Women of Valor. More...

Budding philanthropist Sam Goldstein makes note cards and volunteers to help

By ELLEN WEISMAN STRENGER
Voice shore editor

Sam Goldstein is a frequent volunteer at the JFS food pantry. He also recently donated $115 to the pantry, raising money by selling note cards. More...

Young Israel brings warmth and meaning to Thursday nights

By ELLEN WEISMAN STRENGER
Voice shore editor

On a chilly Thursday night in late January, twenty people gathered at Young Israel of Margate to take part in the weekly series, Parsha Delights and Bites. More...

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Federation

Family & youth programs making an IMPACT

The Jewish Federation is committed to providing family and youth services that enrich both the mind and the body. More...

Jewish Abilities Alliance website launched

The Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey is excited to announce the launch of another Shark Tank initiative. On Feb. 1, we launched a special needs website with resources for everyone called the Jewish Abilities Alliance of South Jersey (JAA). More...

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World News

Pope Francis meets delegation from ADL

Pope Francis, meeting a delegation from the Anti-Defamation League, denounced “widespread” anti-Semitism. More...

NY state apologizes for ‘anti-Israel’ cartoon

The New York state Department of Education has apologized for including a political cartoon on a statewide exam that critics called anti-Israel propaganda. More...

Jewish refugee group helps reunite Syrian family

A Syrian family was reunited with help from the resettlement agency HIAS after the mother and her two daughters were temporarily prevented from traveling to the United States by President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration. More...

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Kid Stuff

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 CONG. M’KOR SHALOM Tot Family Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. followed by Tot Shabbat at 6:15 p.m. Shabbat dinner costs $10 per family and the Shabbat service is free and open to the community. More...

Voice Camp Guide 2017

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JCC Camps at Medford welcomes new faces to its leadership team

By STEPHANIE DWORKIN Katz JCC, Cherry Hill
marketing director

The JCC Camps at Medford is pleased to announce the hiring of new senior staff members for Summer 2017. More...

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Columns

The community-wide Super Sunday effort should make us proud

FEDERATION PRESIDENT’S CORNER

GLENN FUHRMAN
Federation President

Our Jewish community should be extremely proud. Through your efforts as volunteers and donors, we were able to raise more than $1-million during Super Sunday/Super Week that will benefit our community and Jews around the world. More...

Record-breaking attendance at Tournies shows BBYO spirit

BBYO BLOCK

By JESS BARR & NOAH NADELBACH
56th Regional Mazkirim

At the Cherry Hill Health and Racquet Club, South Jersey Region BBYO competed in Tournies, a 12-hour spirit competition to win the Tower of Spam and Spirit Stick, signifying the most spirited chapters in the region. More...