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By Aviva Zacks | July 15, 2021 Editors note: We would like to welcome an exciting new biweekly column to our pages. Aviva Zacks will bring you stories of locals who made aliyah, recently or otherwise. If you know anyone who would like to be featured, please email [email protected]   I got the chance to sit down with Lauren Adler, the daughter-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Adler, who made aliyah from Teaneck in the summer of 2018 with her husband, Zvi, and their children, Kayla, Jonah, and Elan. Adler, 42, was a long-time teacher at Moriah School and continues to mentor teachers remot...

By JLNJ Staff | January 21, 2021 (Courtesy of JFNNJ) Last March, with the onset of the pandemic, schools sent their students home and went virtual, which meant that kids and teachers were suddenly attending Zoom school. Within a few months, just as everyone seemed to be adjusting to virtual learning, a new model emerged called concurrent teaching, which is a blend of in-person teaching and remote teaching. At any given time, in one class, several children may be learning from home while other students continue in person. Teachers had little time to create and manage concurrent ...

By Elizabeth Kratz | December 31, 2020 Educators at 17 New York and New Jersey yeshiva high schools and day schools were named as recipients of the Tikvah Fund’s Abraham Lincoln Teachers Fellowship. The inaugural class of 36 fellows will join an advanced seminar on American history and civilization designed for Jewish day school and yeshiva educators. The program, which will run from January to May 2021, will cover a wide range of themes including religion, freedom, self-government, equality and commerce—across 400 years of history. The fellowship “is designed to gather t...

Ashreinu: An Israeli Yeshiva With NJ Roots By Harry Glazer | December 30, 2020 If you’re a New Jersey yeshiva high school student or their parent and, in checking out options for gap-year programs in Israel, you find something strangely familiar about Yeshivat Ashreinu in Beit Shemesh—no, it’s not your imagination. It’s the school’s strong roots in New Jersey. Three of the Yeshiva’s administrators/instructors proudly hail from Bergen County and are quite familiar with many of the religious communities in our region. Rabbi Nisanel “Gotch” Yudin, t...