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When former airline exec Eli Timoner started putting his affairs in order decades after being felled by a stroke, his daughters chronicled it. Now their film opens in NY and LA

From the blog of Nathan Weiner at The Times of Israel

Members of Plymouths Congregation Beth Jacob celebrated the Jewish New Year with environmental activism Monday, Sept. 26.

This Shabbat, Bergen County rabbis will ask their congregations to make technology use ‘intentional.’ It seems all working adults struggle to strike just the right balance between modeling good device usage for our children while also vigorously wielding our phones, tablets and computers to complete our work, our learning, our shopping and even our chesed projects.

The must-see theatre, concert, book, visual arts, dance and classical events happening this season around Metro Vancouver this fall.

From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel

Half a decade later, Charlottesville’s Jewish community is still processing the events of August 2017.

Half a decade later, Charlottesville’s Jewish community is still processing the events of August 2017.

Rabbi Mark Levin says in the Jewish faith, life begins at birth.

I’m taping an episode of my Southern Fried Podcast with Judge Raymond Abramson of the Arkansas Court of Appeals when the subject of Delta Jews comes up. Abramson, who hails from Holly Grove, is among the last of the Delta Jewish lawyers. It’s a group that once included well-known attorneys such as David Solomon of Helena, Oscar Fendler of Blytheville, Kent Rubens of West Memphis and Eddie Grauman of Helena.