by Johanna Ginsberg
January 1, 2009
While national philanthropies scramble to assist victims of Bernard Madoff’s alleged Ponzi scheme, local Jewish agencies are breathing a sigh of relief as most find they have not been touched directly by a scandal that has cost other Jewish nonprofits and philanthropists billions.Read More
by Robert Wiener
January 1, 2009
For the past nine years, Florette Lynn has been working intensely on a project connecting her family’s past with the present.
From her home in Westwood, she obtained and translated a memorial book written in Yiddish that chronicles the daily lives of residents of Ivenets, a Belarus shtetl that was her mother’s birthplace.Read More
by Robert Wiener
January 1, 2009
Jewish organizations are gearing up for a new round in an ongoing court battle over a ban on religious music performances in the South Orange-Maplewood schools.Read More
by Robert Wiener
January 1, 2009
New Jersey’s Division on Civil Rights ruled Dec. 29 that a lesbian couple is entitled to hold a civil union ceremony on a boardwalk in the town of Ocean Grove.Read More
