12+ hour, 46+ min ago   (1194+ words) Thursday, September 3, 2026 Gloria Steinem, the trailblazing feminist who turbocharged the women’s rights movement’s second wave by casting the liberation of women as part of the broader project of eliminating other bigotries including antisemitism, has died at 92. “Yesterday, Gloria Steinem passed…...

14+ hour, 19+ min ago   (723+ words) Thursday, September 3, 2026 For more than 30 years, Beth has been part of the JCC movement, first through the Kaiserman JCC and, more recently, the Katz JCC. Over the course of her career, she has served as Director of JCC Camps at…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (66+ words) Jewish Community Voice BBYO leaders from Kol Ami enjoy a retreat in Ocean City Congregation Kol Ami in Cherry Hill members serving on the Executive Board of BBYO’s South Jersey Region enjoyed their recent Board Retreat in Ocean City, NJ....

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (881+ words) On Rosh Hashanah, the piercing blasts of the shofar ring out across our sanctuaries like an alarm clock. The shofar is more than a ritual instrument; it is a spiritual wake-up call, urging us to examine our lives, embrace opportunities…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (307+ words) John Galliano withdrew from a planned exhibition of his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in response to an escalating controversy over the museum’s decision to honor the fashion designer despite his history of antisemitic and racist remarks. Galliano…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (392+ words) Do you remember the news announcements about a third airplane hijacked and flying to Washington D.C. to hit the Pentagon? Later that morning, it was announced that a fourth plane was flying to D.C. to hit the Capitol and the Capitol was…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (398+ words) Maimonides teaches that the shofar is meant to awaken us from our slumber. Its blast is a spiritual alarm: Wake up. Examine your life. Recognize what is happening around you. Change before circumstances force change upon you. How shall we…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (151+ words) As the High Holidays approach, it is a time to reflect on the core values that make our South Jersey Jewish community unique: A community filled with compassion, generosity, and a responsibility to take care of one another. It is…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (575+ words) TEL AVIV – A window was broken at a Reform synagogue late last month in the central Israeli city of Ramat Hasharon less than two weeks after a similar incident occurred in Jerusalem in an incident the mayor called an act…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (210+ words) As we finish another Jewish year and turn our hearts towards a new one, many of us are undoubtedly thinking about the current state of the Jewish world. For many of us, what we see is bleak- -antisemitism rising all…...