2012-07-11

Midrashah graduates 13 at June 5 commencement



Temple Beth El celebrates 75th



Temple Beth El in Hammonton is throwing a party to celebrate its 75th anniversary. The public is welcome to celebrate the synagogue’s past, present, and future on Saturday, July 21. Celebration of yesteryear, today, and tomorrow will feature former Eagles coach Jim Murray and Steve Ross, co-hosts of CBS Radio’s “Remember When;” the Ultimate Joan Rivers impersonator, Helene Masiko; and […]

SJMC hosts Israeli diplomat



A devastating diagnosis & learning to accept for those you love

SALLY’S WORLD

It was the phone call that changed our lives. It came on an ordinary Tuesday night. Our youngest daughter’s voice sounded strange. Smug me—I thought I’d figured it out: She’d probably lost the borrowed necklace I kept asking her to return to me. Not quite. Nancy was in the hospital with Danny, our then-six-yearold grandson. He had been there since […]

The rebbitzin’s recipes: Vegetarian options for a meatless Nine Days

COOKING

The “Three Weeks,” called by the Prophets “the Bein Hametzarim-Between the Boundaries,” an annual period when Jews mourn the destruction of the Holy Temples, begins with a day of fasting on the 17th of the Hebrew month of Tammuz (July 8) which marks the day the walls of Jerusalem were breached by the Romans in 69 C.E. The Three Weeks […]

Looking back at JCRC’s year with an eye toward the future

COMMUNITY COMMENTARY


Our agency has had another busy and productive year. A snapshot of the past 12 months includes new initiatives that are well underway along with annual programs and events that continued to engage hundreds of volunteers while touching the lives of thousands. Our year began with the formation of the Goodwin Holocaust Museum and Educational Center Steering Committee. This body […]

Book clubs offer camaraderie and great reading

LIBRARIANS’ ROUNDTABLE

Are you in a book group? Many of our readers enjoy discussing the books they read. Sharing opinions about characters, themes, and other aspects of books is a stimulating experience, and the food/ wine/camaraderie keep the gathering fun. We met recently to discuss books that are good choices for book clubs. If your club is putting together a reading list […]

OBITUARIES



MILDRED CANTOR, 100, of Voorhees, died on June 17. Wife of the late Samuel K. Mittelman and the late Maurice Cantor. Mother of Faye (Barry) Mertz. Grandmother of two. Sister of Estelle Meyer, the late Leona Benioff and the late Seymour Lustig. She was a life member of Hadassah, a former member of the Board of Directors of The Jewish […]

Louise Greenbaum, was director of JCC nursery school



Louise D. (Nee Selleck) Greenbaum, 89, of Cherry Hill, died on June 24. She was born in New London, CT where her father served as the mayor. At age 21, Louise left college to enter the US Navy, where she served for two years. In 1947, while working as a camp counselor, she met her husband, Maurice. They lived in […]

JCC Summer Camps Offer Cool Fun