From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Prayer services and volunteers for searching organized themselves in Bergen and Passaic counties only hours after Leiby Kletzky went missing Monday evening. Synagogue listserves, such as Teaneck Shuls, sent out calls for volunteers to go to Borough Park to aid in …
From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Local day-camp directors interviewed this week stressed that at their camps, safety is the top priority. Most are accredited by the American Camp Association, whose safety standards, according to all camp directors interviewed, exceed state requirements. …
From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Balfour Books, a division of ICON Publishing, was established in 2003 “to educate Christians about what is going on in the Middle East,” and specifically about Israel, according to its publisher, Jim Fletcher. The Evangelical Christian company recently published Alex Grobman’s …
From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Alex Grobman, historian and Englewood resident, spoke last week and over the Fourth of July weekend with The Jewish Standard about his book “The Palestinian Right to Israel.” (The book is published by Balfour Books, a division of …
From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON
New Jersey’s State Senate last Wednesday unanimously approved a measure urging the federal government to take stronger action in imposing and enforcing sanctions against Iran.
The resolution urges better enforcement of “current United States sanctions against investment [in Iran] by energy companies” …
From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON
No one goes to summer camp for the food. And school lunches? Used to be fried mystery meat and a side of bogus mashed potatoes, if you were lucky.
But that was before the healthy eating movement — …
From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Over the past year, as anti-Israel events on campus surged in what one professor characterized as an anti-Israel “drumbeat,” pro-Israel students at Rutgers University refused to sit quietly and be drowned out.
Among those striving to make …
From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Starting this fall, Ramapo College of New Jersey will offer its students a minor in human rights and genocide studies. It will be the first program of its kind in New Jersey’s state college system, according to Michael …
From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON
The Obama administration announced last week that the United States would not participate in the Durban III World Conference Against Racism, scheduled to take place in New York City in September, during the U.N. General Assembly opening session. New Jersey members …
From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Ahead of her June 12 performance to benefit Gilda’s Club Northern New Jersey, the local chapter of a charity founded in memory of the comedian Gilda Radner to help those struggling with cancer, cancer survivors, and their families, …