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3 weeks ago | 
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer |Deb Herman
The election for delegates to the 39th World Zionist Congress, which opened in late March, will remain open until May 4.
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3 weeks ago | 
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer |Deb Herman
It is not trawling for pity to say that it is hard being divorced, that it is harder to be divorced if you are a woman than if you are a man, and that it is particularly hard to be divorced and therefore feel alone in a thriving community made up, apparently overwhelmingly, of happy families.
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3 weeks ago | 
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer |Deb Herman
I don’t mean that, of course. Time has smoothed the horror of that night in Ford’s Theatre, 160 years ago, into a punchline. We used to pull it out when conversation had to move on from something grim but distant to the lighter present. It used to be funny, when it was done right. Now, though, it’s a daily refrain. Life is so complicated right now that many of us have become perpetual Mrs. Lincolns.
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4 weeks ago | 
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer |Deb Herman
Tranquillity Camp — yes, that’s how you spell it — opened more than a century ago, and the family that created the nonprofit summer refuge owns and loves it still. As it enters into its 106th summer, let’s take a look at it. “In 1919, my great-great-uncle, Elias A. Cohen, lived in New York,” Dan Cohn of Tenafly — who represents the sixth generation of the camp-owning family — said.
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4 weeks ago | 
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer |Deb Herman
As we wrote last week, the election for delegates to the 39th World Zionist Congress is open. Its delegates — 200 from Israel, 152 from the United States, and 173 from the rest of the Diaspora — will be chosen from 21 slates and will have some influence in allocating about $5 billion over five years. Any Jew who lives in the United States, is at least 18 years old, pays the $5 fee, and accepts the self-definition of Zionist can vote between now and May 4. Voting is online, at azm.org/elections.
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4 weeks ago | 
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer |Deb Herman
When you think of Zalmen Mlotek of Teaneck, you think Yiddish. You also think of music. Yiddish music. It makes sense. He’s the artistic director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. He’s the impresario who created the Yiddish-language version of “Fiddler on the Roof,” uncovering the depth of feeling and undercurrent of history that was there all along but had become fashionable to overlook, and in the process making us cry.
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4 weeks ago | 
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer |Deb Herman
It’s really early spring now. In the green-and-yellow department, we’ve got forsythias and daffodils; meanwhile, more and more trees have little trembling hints of baby green on their branches. The sun’s out dramatically longer. When you walk outside, you get that involuntary rush of warmth and joy that comes with spring.
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1 month ago | 
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer |Deb Herman
To get to Drawing Rooms, you drive through the part of Jersey City that looks, at least to my from-elsewhere eyes, like industrial wasteland, like the streets that lead up to the highways in the far reaches of the outer boroughs. It’s close to a highway, it’s full of what look like untended warehouses (does anyone tend to a warehouse?), with a parking lot that is full of signs telling you not to park there, even though you’ve been told to park there.
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1 month ago | 
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer |Deb Herman
The election for delegates to the 39th World Zionist Congress is open. The body, which was founded by Theodor Herzl 128 years ago, will seat 200 representatives from Israel, 173 representatives from the Diaspora excluding the United States, and 152 American Jews. Twenty-one organizations are fielding slates. The WZC gets to have a voice in allocating more than $5 billion over five years.
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1 month ago | 
jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer |Deb Herman
YIVO’s turning 100. The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research had a tumultuous first half-century. Established in what was then Vilna, in Poland, and is now Vilnius, in Lithuania — note that the city has not moved, but the borders have moved around it — the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut, or Yiddish Scientific Institute, as it was called then, was created as a center for Jewish intellectual, cultural, linguistic, everyday, and every other kind of life.
