Surviving the Holocaust as a F...
A first-hand account of surviving the holocaust as a family
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in ...
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an act of Jewish resistance in German-occupied Poland undertaken to oppose the Nazis’ final effort began April 19, 1943
read moreHow Do We Know Anything about ...
The only way the past can be known is through a convergence of evidence.
read moreHolocaust Survivor Sol Lurie S...
Meet Sol Lurie, a native of Kovno in Lithuania, who was only 11 years old when the Nazis marched into his town in June 1941 and herded all the Jews into a ghetto.
read moreBook Review: Historical Atlas ...
A cartographic reference work on Hasidism, the movement that developed in 18th century Europe to become one of the largest and most important factions in Judaism.
read moreDistant Cousins’ Homecoming in...
Dov Rosenblatt and Ami Kozak from Torah Academy of Bergen County have become talented musicians, whose accomplishments include recordings, commercials, and movies, team up with Duvid Swirsky from Israel for a concert appropriately entitled “Homecoming”.
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All students learn differently. For people like me, looking up at teachers while they lecture makes it hard to focus on what they are saying.
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I have come to realize that a critical element to my college choice is determining if the school encompasses a community that shares my religious identity and values as well as my Zionist views.
read moreLetter to the Editor: Voluntee...
At the Frisch School in Paramus, which I attend, students are not forced to volunteer, but the concept of chessed, kindness, is part of the school’s culture.
read moreLetter to the Editor: In Prais...
At YJS, the curriculum was based on the notion that the Modern-Orthodox Jewish community should strive to integrate Judaic and secular education and apply what is learned in the classroom to situations that arise in everyday life.
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