New Jersey Jewish News

2 weeks ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Larry Yudelson

Finally, someone has come along to anthropomorphize the seder plate — with attitude. Credit Israeli designer Ran Aviv with the vision to see that when they’re properly animated, such Pesach staples as matzah, gefilte fish, and celery have the makings of action heroes — and credit him also with the skill to render them as stunning trading cards. Aviv is an art director at Bagelcode, an international South Korean-based gaming company with an office in Tel Aviv.

2 weeks ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Larry Yudelson

What happens when a yielding object meets a totally resistible force? That’s the metaphysical question underlying the fascination with the baseball doubleheader held in Teaneck on Tuesday, which pitted the two losingest teams in collegiate baseball in a match that promised to break a multiyear losing streak — and in fact broke two. Lehman College hadn’t won a baseball game since 2023; it’s lost 42 games in a row.

4 weeks ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Abigail Klein Leichman

Israel is grappling with a shortage of physicians and other healthcare workers, especially in what’s called the “periphery” regions in the north and south. With a growing population, Russian doctors from the aliyah wave in the 1980s and 1990s retiring, and many other physicians serving on reserve duty, the problem is now acute.

1 month ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Banji Ganchrow

I went to a shiur. For those of you who don’t know what a shiur is, it is a class that involves Jewish texts. These texts can be from the Torah, gemarah, and other rabbinical sources. I usually do not go to these classes. Mainly because I am not very bright and I can never follow what the speaker is saying. But I went to this class because the topic caught my eye. “Misinterpreting Messages: Optimism, Hope and Dreams.” Interesting, right?

1 month ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer

Antisemitism is an unpleasant subject. Who wants to read about it? Even more basically, who wants to write about it? But not only is it on the rise, it’s in the news. Will Sommer is a young journalist whose career has taken him from the Daily Beast to the Washington Post to the Bulwark, which he has just joined and where he is going to continue to write about the rightwing fever swamp. In his first newsletter for the Bulwark, he wrote about the new antisemitism on the right.