BERON JEWISH OLDER ADULT SERVICES SERVED 125 MEALS at a traditional Rosh Hashanah luncheon at The Herman Pogachefsky Senior Services Pavilion in Atlantic City. Prudential Fox & Roach volunteers served lunch and packaged home delivered meals at the center. From left are Neil and Judi Cohen, Temi Marx, Susan Szatmary, and Rene Kane. More...
Stockton's Holocaust Resource Center is pleased to announce a portrait exhibit of 82 portraits of Holocaust Survivors of Atlantic and Cape May Counties. The exhibit, "Portraits of Resilience: Holocaust Survivors of South Jersey," will be displayed at the Milton and Betty Katz Jewish Community Center, 501 North Jerome Ave., Margate from Nov. 10 to Dec.12, 2008. More...
Let's face it: People are complicated. We have a warm, sensitive side and a wild, primitive side. We can act caring and nurturing one moment, and selfcentered and aggressive the next. Making sense of our thoughts and emotions is not easy, and people often feel conflicted and overwhelmed. More...
There will be a Kristallnacht remembrance service at the Milton and Betty Katz Jewish Community Center of Margate on Monday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m., the infamous "night of broken glass," when 70 years ago 1,408 synagogues and places of worship were simultaneously destroyed, and 30,000 Jews were arrested. More...
WASHINGTON (JTA) - The Anti- Defamation League assisted in the investigation into white supremacists arrested in an alleged plot to assassinate Barack Obama. The ADL, which tracks white supremacist groups, provided the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with information on Daniel Cowart, 21, of Jackson, Tenn. More...
The Supreme Court upheld the poll tax, literacy test and residence requirement in l898. Within 12 years of this decision, every Southern state passed laws to disenfranchise Negro vot ers.
The struggle between voter enfranchisement and voter suppression shoots into the headlines during each presidential election cycle. More...
Burkhardt, Lily(nee Josephson) of Margate, passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008, surrounded by a loving family, at her residence. She was 92. Lily was a lifelong area resident born on August 1, 1916 in Atlantic City to Joseph and Bessie Josephson. She graduated from Atlantic City High School class of 1934. She was an accountant and the office manager for Dr. H. More...
Friday nights at Congregation Beth Judah now include Beth Judah Alive! and Beth Judah Alive! Unplugged service. Beth Judah Alive! is a fully instrumental Friday night service, while Beth Judah Alive! Unplugged is a more relaxed and mellow service which includes acoustic instruments. More...
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