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At home in Hoboken Synagogue Print E-mail
Written by Jeff Diamant   
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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The PJ Library Print E-mail
Written by Jessica Mandelbaum Lemmon   
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.
 
Toddler Time Shabbat Program in Jersey City Print E-mail
Written by Administrator   
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What’s Blue & White, and Is New All Over? : Bnai Jacob Music Fest Print E-mail
Written by Administrator   

(Jersey City, June 20, 2008). 

Hundreds of blue & white balloons filled the banquet hall at Bnai Jacob, floating above streaming pale ribbons, drizzling from ceiling-to-floor.  This was the magical backdrop to the Kabbalat Shabbat dinner - a musical festival held at Bnai Jacob on June 20th.  The services were led by Cantor Marsha Dubrow of Congregation Bnai Jacob in Jersey City.  She sang traditional Shabbat songs and Israeli classics including Hativka, the National Anthem.  The theme was the 60th Anniversary Salute to Israel.  The keyboard accompaniment was flawless.  “It was the most moving service I had ever heard”, remarked attendee Michelle Levine.
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Concert, dinner to celebrate Heights synagogue's 102nd year Print E-mail
Written by The Jersey Journal   

 article by The Jersey Journal, published on Sunday, June 15, 2008

mtsinai1.jpgCongregation Mt. Sinai, on Sherman Avenue in the Jersey City Heights, celebrates its 102nd year today with a concert and dinner, according to the Jewish Standard.

The oldest functioning Orthodox congregation in the city, it has been looking for descendants of the founding members and alumni of the Talmud Torah to be honored during the celebration, the paper said.

According to a release on HudsonJewish.org, the synagogue is looking for the following families, descendants of the founding members: Blaustein, Brauer, Bresnick, Chasick, Chenkin, Chester, Gewant, Gutmann, Fellerman, Fishman, Geiger, Hauptman, Halprin, Helfand, Hordes, Kahnowitz, Kanor, Landy, mtsinai2.jpgMarcus, Miller, Novick, Passman, Pesin, Pepper, Pomerantz, Samuelson, Schlossberg, Slurzberg, Sinakin, Sklower, Shneweiss, Sunshine, Urdang, Winograd, Yasmer, Zall and Zeller.

But "the list is by no means complete," said Jane Goldberg, Mount Sinai co-president.

E-mail her at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call (201) 434-6629.

 

 

 
Jersey City Shul Optimistic About the Next 100 Years Print E-mail
Written by Daniel Santacruz, reporter for the Jewish Standard.   

First published in the Jewish Standard, May 23, 2008.

 

mt_-sinai1-c.gif Can you imagine? Hundreds of people sat in those seats, the men here and the women upstairs," said Ann Blaustein, the de facto historian of Cong. Mount Sinai in Jersey City as she looked at 30 rows of empty seats from the bimah in the synagogue’s second-floor sanctuary. 

 

The sentence that is supposed to follow, "and look at it now," doesn’t come. Instead, she sighs and goes over to check a window ledge that has been damaged severely by a water leak.

 

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Jewish Life in Hudson County, Past and Present Print E-mail
Written by Adam Weiss   

Published in the 75th Anniversary edition of the Jewish Standard, Feb 1, 2008.

 

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Hudson County, Past and Present 

 

rabbi_chaim_hirschensohn.jpgTo thousands of Jewish Baby Boomers whose roots are in Hudson County and are now scattered far and wide, it may come as a surprise that the urban region they left in the 1960s and ‘70s is experiencing a Jewish revival.  Although the kosher butchers and bakers are long gone from Jersey City’s Greenville and Heights neighborhoods, the Talmud Torahs of Bayonne, Union City and Jersey City closed years ago, and the vast majority of the post-war generation left for the suburbs upon reaching adulthood, Hudson County Jewish life persists in a dozen synagogues – which a new generation of Jewish “immigrants” is already discovering.

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Saving Synagogues, Building Community Print E-mail
Written by Elizabeth Eilender and Theta Pavis   

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Saving Synagogues, Building Communities. 

First Published in Palisade Magaine, March/April 2008, pp. 41-46. 

Little Nicole was mesmerized. In front of her, a burly rabbi clad in a bright purple hat was using finger puppets to tell an ancient biblical story. Dressed in costume for the Jewish Festival of Purim, Nicole, 2-and-a-half, sat in a circle with six other intently listening children.

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