8+ hour, 15+ min ago  (404+ words) A new study " from the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. " surveyed two groups of young U.S. Jews who lived through the same summer. One group became less connected to their Jewish…...

9+ hour, 17+ min ago  (40+ words) Passover in Paterson'The Jewish Standard The Paterson Shul @Seniors Tower of Paterson, 510 E. 27th St., has a Passover minyan, 9 a.m. Also April 9, at the same time. [email protected] or search for the Paterson Shul on Facebook....

10+ hour, 27+ min ago  (582+ words) I say all of this not to boast, but to establish something that matters in this moment: I know what Democratic values are. I was raised on them. I have lived them. And I am watching them be abandoned by…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (330+ words) To our darling new great-granddaughter Mekimi Shir, welcome to this incomprehensible world, this place and time of trouble and war. Our family prays that this strife will soon be gone and that you will grow up here, in our holiest…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (346+ words) Rabbi Noam E. Marans of Teaneck is the American Jewish Committee's director of interreligious and intergroup relations. Amid this aspirational Feast of Freedom, redemption still awaits us. The pain of war continues unabated. Fulfilling the vision of Israel at peace with…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (490+ words) Dear Governor Newsom'The Jewish Standard You recently called Israel an apartheid state. Over the past several months, I have questioned my relationship to Israel in light of the country's policies in Gaza. With the Palestinian viewpoint showcased front and center…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1445+ words) In a recent interview for his New York Times podcast, Ezra Klein asked Texas State Rep. James Talarico why the Christian right puts so much focus on abortion and gay marriage. "I'm Jewish, but when I read the New Testament,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (53+ words) Talking about Zionism'The Jewish Standard Laureen Lipsky, CEO of Taking Back the Narrative, a Zionist educational company, discusses "Israel Explained Through the Lens of History from Anti-Zionist to Ardent Zionist" for the Bergen County section of the National Council of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1844+ words) Teaching middle schoolers about the Holocaust is hard. How do you talk to 13- and 14-year-olds about the most cataclysmically manmade evil possibly ever visited on the Jewish people without terrifying or coarsening them? What if those eighth-graders are all Jewish,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1129+ words) The other side'The Jewish Standard I've been tough on my Modern Orthodox community in several recent columns. Although I stand by what I wrote, I also understand that communities, like people, are not one dimensional; they're complex, nuanced, and multifaceted,…...