May 06, 2008
Growing up in Holmdel, Pearl Stern Kessler was close to her Uncle Zimel, who came to the United States from Russia in 1911.Read More
May 06, 2008
From 1942 to 1945, Hetty Komjathy’s parents hid seven Jews in their Rotterdam church. All seven survived, and Komjathy’s parents, Gerrit Brillenburg Wurth, pastor of the city’s Dutch Reformed Church, and his wife, Gerda, were posthumously awarded the Silver Award of Freedom by the Israeli government in 1965.Read More
April 22, 2008
Molly Resnick, a veteran journalist and former NBC-TV producer in New York, spent much of her life denying her Jewish heritage.Read More
May 06, 2008
Two Monmouth County sisters are heading a grassroots effort to establish an annual reunion of members of the North American Federation of Temple Youth-Garden Empire Region.Read More
May 06, 2008
An eighth-grade photographer from Colts Neck has won first place in the physics category at the Jersey Shore Science Fair at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.Read More
May 06, 2008
In 1978, a fellow congregant at the Marlboro Jewish Center/Congregation Ohev Shalom told Isabel Jacob about his upcoming heart surgery. He was worried about possible blood transfusions, and whether his blood type would be available.Read More
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