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Written by Sara Levenstein
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Bayonne, NJ - On March 21, ten members from Jersey Tribe joined with Jewish Family Service of MetroWest to deliver Passover food packages to nearly 60 homebound elderly people in Hudson County. The food packages were donated from ShopRite and Crystal Plaza of Livingston, and filled with matzoh, a chicken dinner, horseradish, soup, and macaroons. After dividing into carpools, the volunteers delivered the packages and spent some time chatting with the elderly. |
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Written by Sara Levenstein
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Hoboken, NJ - February 8, 2009 - A group of 25 young adults gathered Friday evening, February 5, in Hoboken at Moishe House, an organization which provides programs for Jewish young adults. The residents of each Moishe House are a group of twentysomethings from Jewish backgrounds ranging from liberal to traditional. Each hosts between 50 and 300 young Jews per month, and there are homes across the United States as well as internationally. |
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Written by Adam Weiss
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Police Chief Everett, Mayor Stack and Rabbi Turner discuss the attack on the Bnos Sanz school.
An arson attack was reported at Union City's Bnos Sanz (“Daughters of Sanz”), the girls’ school associated with the Klausenburg-Sanz Jewish community, on the evening of April 22 at approximately 9 p.m. The city's Klausenburg-Sanz community consists of approximately 100-200 families and is a branch of the chasidic group centered in Netanya, Israel, and Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Written by Anthony Weiss
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Published April 15, 2009, The Forward issue of April 24, 2009.
Jersey City, N.J. — Aside from a few buckets to catch water where the roof leaks, Congregation B’nai Jacob in Jersey City, N.J., looks much as it did 40 years ago, when 900 people would show up for High Holy Day services and the Hebrew school was packed with 175 students. But the Hebrew school has been closed for years, and the Conservative synagogue’s aging membership, though still devoted, has dwindled to about 90 families, most of them elderly. 
“We need new people,” said Jane Canter, one of the synagogue’s founders 50 years ago and currently its co-president. “Our plans right now are probably for at least 10 years in the future, and as we go along we’ll just keep hoping that we’ll be able to continue.”
At a Crossroads: Younger Jews are once again moving into Jersey City N.J., but older synagogues, such as Temple Beth-El (above), have had mixed success at luring them into communal life.
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Written by Sarah Morrison
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The Jewish State
November 21, 2008
One of the most unique aspects of the New Jersey education system is the required study of the Holocaust in public schools.
The Jersey City public school system takes this requirement a step further. Instead of reading books or leading discussions, Jersey City takes its kids to Poland to see the remnants of the destruction firsthand.
None of the kids in the program is Jewish.
"Hudson County is the most diverse county in New Jersey," said Adam Weiss, chairman on the HudsonJewish board of trustees. "There are well in excess of 50 languages spoken in the public schools here, and it is the smallest county in the state, yet the most diverse and the most dense."
Weiss believes that the program brings Holocaust awareness to a group of kids who would have never met a Jew before. The program, he said, can relate to the home countries of some, where there may be genocide still going on.
"The children grow up with only limited contact with Jews," Weiss said. "A very good percentage of the children are second-generation immigrants. They certainly would have not met any Jews in their own countries. It's programs like this that help bring the Jewish experience to their attention."
The program was brought to the Jersey City school system by June Chang, language and arts supervisor of the Jersey City school system. In the program, students apply and 11 are allowed in. They raise the money to visit Europe for a first-hand look at the disasters they learn about back home. The program includes visits to Berlin, Prague, and Krakow in order to trace the Jewish life and history in each of the towns and where it stands today
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Written by Jessica Mandelbaum Lemmon
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Hudson Jewish and the
Jersey City Board of Education
present:
Holocaust Study and European Tour
in the Jersey City Schools
Film, Panel, Discussion
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December 3, 2008 |
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7:00 PM |
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Middle School 4
107 Bright Street
Jersy City |
Accessible via NJ Transit Light Rail (Jersey Ave Station) or PATH (Grove Street Station)
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Written by Jeff Diamant
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
BY JEFF DIAMANT
Star-Ledger Staff
Leaving behind her Hoboken synagogue was the hardest part of Amanda Grant's 2003 move to Boston, a move she made for a job offer.
In the Bay State, she tried and tried, each weekend for a year, to find a synagogue she liked as much, a synagogue where she wanted to raise a child. But she found nothing that excited her.
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Written by Jessica Mandelbaum Lemmon
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The PJ (Pajamas) Library provides families with young children with a FREE treasury of Jewish books and music. For more information please see here: PJ LIBRARY.
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