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Yom HaShoah 2017

Today, we recognize Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day - the day dedicated to commemorate the 6 million Jews who perished during the Holocaust. Their memory is our memory, and we must never forget.

Did you miss last Friday's CHHANGE Yom HaShoah event? The program featured child surv…

Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut: From Despair to Joy

By Naomi Lasky, Board Member for the Jewish Federation in the Heart of New Jersey

Imagine if in an instant, everyone on I-95 simply stopped their cars and stepped out to stand together one morning every year. That’s exactly what happens in Israel on Yom Hazikaron.

At exactly 11 a.m. in t…

Are You Ready? Security is Everyone's Responsibility

By Amy Keller, Partner Relations Manager, Staff Liaison to the Federation Security Task Force, at the Jewish Federation in the Heart of New Jersey

 

 

Security is everyone’s responsibility.

That’s our belief at the Jewish Federation in the Heart of New Jersey. We think it should be…

Letting Light Break Through

The following message is from the desk of Jerry Silverman, President and CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA). 

“Vayehi b’chatzi halayla…And so it happened in the middle of the night…” 

This piyut (liturgical poem), recited near the end of the Passover Seder, r…

Tributes and Memorial Gifts - March, 2017

JEWISH FEDERATION IN THE HEART OF NJ
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Newman, happy 70th birthday and all forthcoming family simchas, from Wendy and Jerry Marks; to Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Boden, Mazel Tov on their granddaughter’s marriage, from Wendy and Jerry Marks; to Alison and David Politziner, in memor…