It was a joyous, gift and music-filled gathering Sunday morning, March 26, as members of Westville’s Beth El-Keser Israel (BEKI) synagogue installed Eric Woodward as their new rabbi.
Woodward, 41, a graduate of Williams College and the Jewish Theological Seminary, assumed the pulpit ov…
Shavuot is a holiday that celebrates the completion of a journey, both in our mytholog- ical history and in our agricultural cycle. Our biblical ancestors have journeyed from Egypt to the wilderness and are receiving Torah. Later, our ancestors in Israel celebrated Shavuot as the late spring…
Greater New Haven Jewish women have a wonderful opportunity to become lifelong philanthropists through the Women of Vision Society -- a permanent, restricted endowment fund dedicated to helping and enhancing the lives of women in our community. Created in 1996 by 100 founding members, the en…
When I was a kid growing up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, I loved baseball. I loved everything about it from the family with three boys next door whose dad would throw us countless pop flies and grounders in their backyard every night after supper, to the awesome Johnny Bench Batter-Up my dad …
(JNS) The holiday Shavuot—beginning after sundown on Saturday, June 4, and continuing through the evening of Monday, June 6 (in Israel it is celebrated just for one day)—transports Jews back 3,333 years to the culmination of the 49 days following the exodus from Egypt (marked by the holi…
