‘Sisters’ seek peace among Jews, Muslims

by Debra Rubin

May 20, 2013

When Sheryl Olitzky went to Poland several years ago, she was horrified by the hatred that resulted in the deaths of so many of the country’s Jews during the Holocaust. Read More

Exhibit highlights Albanians who saved Jews

by Debra Rubin

May 20, 2013

When European countries closed their doors to desperate refugees, Albania stood out as a notable exception. Read More

Congregation welcomes first new Torah

by Debra Rubin

May 20, 2013

With song, dance, and a parade, about 350 members of Congregation B’nai Tikvah in North Brunswick welcomed its first new Torah scroll in its 32-year history. Read More

Temple to explore Conservative Judaism

by Debra Rubin

May 6, 2013

The Conservative movement and its future will be explored May 10-11 at the Highland Park Conservative Temple-Congregation Anshe Emeth with Rabbi William H. Lebeau, the former vice chancellor for rabbinic development and immediate past dean of the rabbinical school of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Read More

Legal scholar outlines IDF’s ethical dilemmas

by Debra Rubin

May 6, 2013

In a war where the enemy doesn’t wear uniforms and where one side is trying to minimize civilian casualties while the other is intent on maximizing collateral damage to further its aims, can a “moral” war be waged? Read More

Author hunts secrets of anti-Nazi resisters

Jud Newborn calls ‘White Rose’ siblings ‘source of inspiration’

by Johanna Ginsberg

May 6, 2013

Jud Newborn first fell for the story of Hans and Sophie Scholl when he arrived in Germany to do field work for his dissertation at the University of Chicago. Read More

A ‘mensch’ remembered at Rutgers

by Debra Rubin

April 24, 2013

Herbert Stolzer was remembered as always willing to lend his support to the Jewish community, from assisting special-needs children to helping launch Rutgers University’s Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life. Read More

Community honors Warsaw Ghetto heroes

by Debra Rubin

April 24, 2013

Seventy years ago a band of badly outnumbered Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto took up arms against the Nazis, valiantly fighting against impossible odds and inspiring other such revolts. To commemorate the landmark anniversary of the uprising, which took place April 19-May 10, 1943, the Jewish Federation of Greater Middlesex County evoked the heroic stand through photos, song, and prayer in its annual Yom Hashoa Holocaust memorial program. Read More

Interfaith ceremony marks Yom Hashoa

by Debra Rubin

April 24, 2013

A religiously and ethnically diverse crowd of about 200 joined in song, prayer, readings, and a candlelighting ceremony by survivors and children and grandchildren of survivors during the annual interfaith Yom Hashoa program at the JCC of Middlesex County in Edison. Read More