APRIL 3, 2020
A community adjusts to a new normal
The Jewish Standard is Back!
Rockland County has many stories to tell! That’s why we’re pleased that the Jewish Standard is now covering Rockland news on a weekly basis as it has in the past. Look for calendar and event information in its pages as well as feature stories and op-eds from rabbis and other community leaders, but divrei torah as well.
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Sedering in place
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Zooming it all back home
MARCH 27, 2020
With schools shuttered, local educators rise to the challenge of distance learning.
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Alone together
MARCH 20, 2020
Jewish community in the age of quarantine.
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Viral Load
MARCH 13, 2020
Covid-19 outbreak brings caution, quarantines to community.
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Climbing Kilimanjaro
MARCH 6, 2020
Locals climb high to boost Israelis with disabilities
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At the begining
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Recording and remembering American Jews involved in Israel's founding.
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The Questions don'r stop
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Stockton U. demos technology for virtual Q&A with Holocaust survivors
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Standing up for Talmud study
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Michelle Farber brings her Daf Yomi experience to Teaneck
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On the Job with Sinai
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
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The magic of singing together
JANUARY 31, 2020
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Citizen scientist
JANUARY 24, 2020
Englewood's Adam Brown turns his curiosity to the tangled story of Jewish DNA
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Marching against hate and fear
JANUARY 10, 2020
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The decade in review
JANUARY 3, 2020
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Welcome to the family
DECEMBER 27, 2019
Four conversations and a hospital chuppa in Ridgewood.
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Sefer Torah safari
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Teaneck photographer helps take Torah to Tanzanian Jews
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Growing together
DECEMBER 6, 2019
Everyone is welcome at New Jersey Yachad
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Larger than Life
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
Group's local branch helps Israeli families cope with cancer
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Romanian Hora
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
Teaneck's Jim Gold leads klezmer trip to eastern Europe
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"Fiddler" documentary sells out in Teaneck
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
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JFCS honors the family behind the Jewish Standard
NOVEMBER 8, 2019
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Exhibit RBG
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
Ruth Bader Ginsburg show comes to Philadelphia's Museum of American Jewish History
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"Picture of His Life."
OCTOBER 25, 2019
Israeli filmmaker to speak about his Arctic film at Tenafly screening.
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Master Photographer Adi Nes to speak at Teaneck's Beth Sholom
OCTOBER 11, 2019
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Year in Review
OCTOBER 4, 2019
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Happy Birthday, World
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
Mahwah artist Joel Silverstein paints legends of creation.
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Too much of a good thing
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
Local day schools attempt to set smartphone guidelines for their students ... and parents
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For the birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
Jerusalem Bird Observatory to be celebrated in Tenafly
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New Faces of 2019
SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
We introduce eight new local rabbis
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Empowering cantors
AUGUST 30, 2019
Academy for Jewish Religion expands its training for hazzanim
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Getting Around to resilience
Aug 23, 2019
Israeli trauma experts train first responders in North Jersey.
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A summer of civic engagement
AUGUST 16, 2019
Camp Ramah Nyack addresses the present moment.
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That time we were at Woodstock
AUG 9, 2019
'Ve need everybody to make sandwiches because of the starving hippies' and other local concert memories
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Checking in with Steve Fulop
August 2, 2019
Jersey City major reflects on his six years in office.
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Return to Syrna Island
July 26, 2019
In 1946, Luiza Rothfeld's post-Holocaust journey to Israel was interrupted byan Aegean shipwreck. This summer, her daughter retraced her path and told her story.
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Strides for humanity
July 19, 2019
Larry Grogin's run from Franklin Lakes to California.
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Oded Grinstein's Lemonade
July 12, 2019
He came to America to fight his daughter's cancer. Now he helps other families navigate the battle.
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Norman Seiden 1925-2019
July 5, 2019
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Advocating for education
June 28, 2019
Naftuli Moster fights to end state neglect of chasidic boys' schooling
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Torah march
June 21, 2019
Temples Beth El and Beth Or launch Kol Dorot: A Reform Jewish Community
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American biker
June 14, 2019
Larry Prager's two two-wheeled journeys across the continent
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Sunday by the park, with Israel
June 7, 2019
The community celebrates Israel as it marches up Fifth Avenue
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Unchained at Last
May 31, 2019
Fraidy Reiss wins Berrie award for her advocacy against forced and child marriage.
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The Play's the Thing
May 24
Rebecca Lopkin's Envision Theater brings the dramatic arts to local Jewish schools.
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Mission in the rain
May 17, 2019
Tanafly JCC takes it inside
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Stating the case
May 10, 2019
Teach NJ and Teach NY bring in dollars for day schools.
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Stigma is the enemy
May 3, 2019
Marking mental health month in North Jersey and Rockland.
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Letters from the camps
April 26, 2019
Fair Lawn woman's trove of letters from her grandparents to be shown at the Yom haShoah program.
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Passover Greetings
April 19, 2019
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Road to liberty
April 5, 2019
Teaneck's Temple Emeth explores freedom struggles then and now
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Learning with the Other
March 29, 2019
Israel's Hinam study hall, which opens doors to everyone, comes to Teaneck
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Religion at its best
March 22, 2019
Massacre in New Zealand brings together people of good faith — and all faiths — in Bergen, Rockland counties
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Faces of RCC
March 15, 2019
Humanity highlighted at new Holocaust museum exhibit
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