NEW YORK (JTA) — My brother-in-law asked me a surprising question: "How many different kinds of latkes do you make at Chanukah?" "Just the potato kind," I said. "Why?" "Since you prepare eight different charosets at Passover, I figured you'd make lots of exotic latkes too," he said. More...
A community memorial service for the victims of the Mumbai terrorist attacks will be held at the Milton and Betty Katz JCC of Margate on Sunday, Dec. 14, at noon. A statement from Chabad of Atlantic County calls the wounds of the tragedy still fresh and the pain raw. More...
Judy Galler, a past president of the Jewish Federation of Atlantic and Cape May Counties, has been appointed the 2009 nominating committee chair by President Marc Lowenstein. Nominations from the community for consideration for appointment to the 2008 Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federation are most welcome and being sought by the Federation. More...
Ahad Ha'am, the ardent Zionist, once wrote, "More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel." He saw the Sabbath as a core element of the Jewish community. More...
Gusti Engelberg, 98 years young, of Atlantic City, passed peacefully after a brief illness. Gusti was born in Munich, Germany, and immigrated to America to escape the Nazis in 1938, just months before Kristallnacht. The greatest sorrow of her life was never seeing her beloved parents again. More...
Beth El will be having a children's Havdalah workshop on Saturday, Dec. 13, beginning at 4:30 p.m. The children can come in their PJs, hear a story, have a lite dinner, bagels and cream cheese, dessert and do a Shabbat activity. More...
Statement on behalf of the South Jersey Board of Rabbis and Cantors