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Marking Genocide Awareness Month
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Shabbat in Ridgewood
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Honoring Mickey Marcus at West Point
Sunday, May 3, 11 a.m.
Summer boutique in Teaneck
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Jewish immigration
Sunday, May 3, 3 p.m.
Pickleball tourney
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‘Fauda’ star in Rockland
Sunday, May 3, 6 p.m.
Lag B’Omer BBQ/music
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Housing options for people with developmental disabilities
Monday, May 4, 6:30 p.m.
Jewish American trivia
Monday, May 4, 7 p.m.
Talking about developmental disabilities
Wednesday, May 6, 6:30 p.m.
Lunchtime Torah on Zoom
Thursday, May 7, Noon
Author in Mahwah
Thursday, May 7, 6 p.m.
Shabbat in Leonia
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Yom HaShoah in Emerson
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Mission to Washington 2026
Shabbat in Teaneck
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I do not consider myself a parenting expert. And, not surprisingly, I enjoy mocking those women who do consider themselves parenting experts. Because, let’s be honest, and, yes, I have said this before, none of us know what we are doing. It is trial and error at best. Though what I love about being a grandparent is all of the fun without the rigorous disciplining. But that is for another story. After the first five or six weeks after Son #1 was born, when we were questioning whoever wrote that babies are...
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The next chairman of the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America is a Jewish lawyer from Hoboken. That’s a really big deal. Scouting America, as BSA now is called, is a 115-year-old group that includes about a million scouts, some of them girls. Its goals,...
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