AndrewThere’s a brand-new poll out called “American Attitudes on Religion, Moral Values and Hollywood.” Its main findings, according to a press release, are that a majority of Americans (61 percent) believes that their religious values are “under attack.” A similar majority (59 percent) believes the people who run TV and the movies “do not share the religious and moral values of most Americans.”Read More
A multilog with NJJN Editor-in-Chief Andrew Silow-Carroll.
Interfaith contacts between American Jews and American Muslims have been so fleeting over the past decade that they don’t deserve the name “dialogue” — dueling monologues is more like it.Read More
Hayei Sara
Genesis 23:1-25:18 Read More
23rd of Cheshvan, 5769
November 21, 2008 | 4:17 p.m.
A Multilog with NJJN Editor-in-Chief Andrew Silow-Carroll.
Kaplan's Korner on Jews and Sports
Fresh Ideas from Garden State Teens
November 20, 2008
When Rabbi Donald Rossoff of Temple B’nai Or in Morristown was asked if he would consider twinning his synagogue with a nearby mosque for a national weekend of Jewish-Islamic interfaith outreach, he said, “It was pretty much a no-brainer.”Read More
November 20, 2008
I hadn’t known what to expect, since it would be just me and the dead body. It turned out to be four dead bodies, actually. But they weren’t creepy. The window, however, was jarring, like a window into a different dimension.Read More
November 20, 2008
There was a new note of optimism in the sometimes dark retelling of the Holocaust story at the Nov. 13 conference commemorating Kristallnacht at Drew University. Read More
November 20, 2008
As she prepares to lead her congregants in a weekend of 50th anniversary celebration beginning with Shabbat services on Nov. 21, Cantor Marsha Dubrow compares it to Fiddler on the Roof. Read More
November 20, 2008
Holiday gatherings are a time when family members reconnect. If it has been awhile since adult children have seen their aging parent, they may be surprised by the changes. Unopened bills strewn across the dining room table or dirty dishes piled up in the sink. Mom seems absentminded and Dad is moody. Clearly help is needed, but what should you do?Read More
November 20, 2008
Linda Cohn has always taken the road less traveled. Instead of the usual sketches little girls doodle in their school notebooks, she drew New York Rangers logos. An athlete herself, she played ice hockey, despite the fact that it had to be on boys’ teams since there were none for girls. Read More
