The last synagogue in West New York turns 100 next week.

Congregation Shaare Zedek continues to hold Shabbat services, although attendance has dwindled to just over a minyan.

The small, square-mile town now has nearly 50,000 residents — more than twice as many as in 1912.

While the town has grown, however, the Jewish population has mostly moved out.

Daniel Kaminsky lives in Oradell, but he has assumed — inherited? — responsibility for keeping the synagogue afloat.

The mass rally of charedim at Citi Field last Sunday addressed what members of that community consider the evils of the internet and electronic devices. According to experts at an April 29 program held at Teaneck’s Congregation Keter Torah, the Internet and electronic devices can be a source of addictive behaviors that can have damaging effects on youth and adults alike.

Rabbi Yale Butler, who directs the department of community programming of Lander College, introduced a panel of three professors from Lander (part of the Touro College and University system) to discuss the topic of “Addictive Behaviors Among Our Young: Internet, Gambling, Drinking, Eating, Shopping & Texting.” Butler noted that “young people spend an inordinate amount of time unsupervised on the Internet. It’s an addictive factor in people’s lives.” The Teaneck resident added that texting and shopping are other examples of issues that can reach the level of addiction, and that have begun to plague the religious community.

The story of how the Dalai Lama encountered the Jewish community in 1990 is well known.

Less known is how the Ashkenazi Jewish community first encountered the Dalai Lama — in a Hebrew-language book published in Europe in 1804, compiled from travelers accounts in English and French.

“Jews then were not as sheltered as we think of them,” says Alan Brill, who quotes from the book, “Meorot Zvi,” in his own book, “Judaism and World Religions: Encountering Christianity, Islam, and Eastern Traditions,” just published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Dozens of teachers from New Jersey and New York gathered at Congregation Ahavat Torah in Englewood a week ago Thursday to learn about “Rescue as Resistance.” Presenting was Dr. Eva Fogelman, co-director of Child Development Research (CDR) and a Pulitzer Prize nominee for her book on rescuers, “Conscience and Courage.” Also presenting was Dr. Mordechai Paldiel, former director of the Department of the Righteous at Yad Vashem. Paldiel spoke about Jews who rescued Jews, with special mention of the Orthodox rabbi, Michoel Ber Weissmandl.

The conference, sponsored by CDR, an umbrella organization for a number of projects involving child survivors of organized persecution, was made possible with the cooperation of Dr. Paul B. Winkler, executive director of the State of New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education. Winkler spoke to the teachers about bullying in schools and “the three H’s.”

Five years ago, the inaugural Cycling for Peace group bike ride that was launched by the municipality of Acre (Acco) was dedicated to then-captive soldier Gilad Shalit. This year, organizers were excited to have Shalit leading the pack of about 500 cyclists on a 36-kilometer ride from the Shalit home to the multicultural seaside town of Acre, in northern Israel.

About 150 Arab-Israeli citizens joined the May 4 ride — the biggest turnout to date — showing that at least the wheels of peaceful intentions are rolling in some Arab and Jewish communities.

At 6 a.m. on May 9, 1,000 Jews from New Jersey and New York boarded 24 buses to the nation’s capital as part of the 20th annual Mission to Washington sponsored by NORPAC — America’s largest pro-Israel political action committee.

The bipartisan committee was founded in 1992 by Rabbi Menachem Genack of Englewood and Englewood physician Ben Chouake to strengthen the United States-Israel relationship. NORPAC fundraises for lawmakers who support this relationship, hosts frequent meetings with elected officials, and regularly updates members on the situation in the Middle East.

An online petition urging the International Olympic Committee to hold a minute of silence in memory of 11 Israelis murdered at the Olympic summer games in Munich 40 years ago continues to gain momentum even though the request was already rejected by the IOC out of hand.

The 11 Israelis were murdered on the final day of the XXth Olympic Summer Games in 1972 by members of Black September, a Palestinian terrorist organization. Efforts to win a moment of silence in their memory have been ongoing ever since. The request this year was for 60 seconds of silence at the opening ceremonies of this summer’s XXXth Summer Games, being held in London beginning on July 27.