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Celebrating birthdays at our Ladies Who Lunch celebration in November 2023. Seated left to right: Ellen Weber, Arlene Lomazoff-Marron. Standing: Carolyn Grandis. Photo courtesy of the author. The ...
It’s 10:30 on a sunny spring morning at Ben Porat Yosef: The Sephardic Yeshiva of Bergen County, and the 3-year-olds are seated at low tables, nibbling on animal crackers. Surrounded by books, toys ...
(JTA) — When the pandemic kept Rabbi Emily Meyer stuck at home last year, she took up a hobby familiar to any elementary school student — doodling. But Meyer, a Jewish educator in the Pittsburgh area, ...
The rise of a whole new profession of calligraphy artists, often with little or no connection with tradition, has meant a new approach to the aleph-bet. A Hebrew scribe – sofer stam – has a special ...