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The Jewish Book Council has been awarding the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature to an emerging writer since 2007.The winner of the Sami Rohr Prize is awarded with $100,000 the largest sum given as a literary prize. It recognizes thedistinct role …
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Kiyara Leis
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2/27/14
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On Feb. 8 and 9, New England Academy of Torah (NEAT) students, led by production heads Chayala Schwartz and Adena Malka Yudkowsky, performed “Coming Home.”
This inspirational and entertaining show portrays the effect that Dovid Mayer, an …
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2/27/14
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A window was broken and was blood left behind, but this is not an episode of “CSI.” Malka Yudowsky, Goldie Taitelbaum and Shifra Schectman, seniors at the New England Academy of Torah (NEAT), are studying forensics by performing a …
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2/27/14
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When you think of things that go together, children and animals are an obvious pairing. For the past four years, thatpairing has been turned into a mutually beneficial partnership between the students in J-Space/J-Camp and the homelessanimals of …
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Laurelin Sitterly
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2/27/14
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When you ask most JORI campers what comes to mind when they think about camp, they will most likely answer“TaCEO.” To understand what that means requires a brief walk down memory lane.
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Rachel Mersky Woda
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2/27/14
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Ask any Jewish family that sends their children to both a private Jewish day school and a Jewish summer camp about theaffordability of such endeavors and they’ll use words such as “sacrifice,” “hardship” and “priorities.” With the cost …
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Rabbi Jason Miller
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2/27/14
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Jewish camp is everywhere, Terry Gross confirmed on NPR the other day. While interviewing filmmakers Joel and EthanCoen, she noted that she’d recently discovered that the Coen Brothers had attended the same Jewish camp – Herzl Camp,in Wisconsin …
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Jordana Horn
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2/27/14
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JTA – It used to be that parents who wanted to expose their children to conversational Hebrew over the summer had totravel to Israel. Now a growing number of American Jewish day camps are offering Hebrew-immersion programs, wherekids do the …
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Talia Lavin
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2/27/14
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(JTA) – In the late 1960s, when husband-and-wife team Barbara and Herb Greenberg first decided to create a Jewish overnight summer camp program for developmentally disabled children, it was hard to find a camp willing to host it.
Camp …
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Julie Wiener
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2/27/14
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Summer vacation will be here before we know it so now is the time to start thinking about your plans. J-Camp hasexperienced a major restructuring this winter and we are gearing up for the best summer yet! This year, camp will consistof one base …
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Shannon Boucher
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2/27/14
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