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Jeanette Friedman

 

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Jewcy Jon

generalPublished: 08 March 2006

Jon Stewart

My name is Jeanette. I am a Jon Stewart junkie. Because Jon Stewart is sexy — not Hollywood sexy, brain sexy. His kind is the kind I taught my daughters to respect, the kind that is 95 percent from the neck up. Pollster Frank Luntz once told a group of Jewish freelancers that Stewart is so powerful, he could single-handedly save Jewish youth from assimilation — but only two people in the room had ever heard of him — and that's cause Jon Stewart lives on cable TV at Comedy Central.

But now that he's done the Oscars and kicked it up a couple of notches intellectually, I hope it doesn't go to his head. I hope he stays put and doesn't wander off into Lala Land. I am one of those who force themselves to stay awake at least until 11 from Mondays through Thursdays, so I can watch him "fresh" on The Daily Show. That is where he highlights the global insanities our fearless leaders have perpetrated and takes pot shots at preposterous aspects of pop culture, Hollywood included. On rerun nights I retire early.

Stewart's brainy humor doesn't usually endear him to stodgy establishment types (they just don't get it), so we regular fans were dizzy with delight when we heard he was going to host the Oscars. But we were also a little worried. Should he take it seriously? Ehhhh, not so much? Should we?

 

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Debbie Friedman on the Jewish new wave

LocalPublished: 01 March 2006

Debbie Friedman

Debbie Friedman has now produced '4 albums — she thinks.
She has to check, because everything gets confusing when you run around the world as much as she does. During the last couple of weeks alone, she's had to deal with two concerts, family stuff, recording, and travel to other lands. She's been doing this for 35 years.

 

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Wayne JF&CS gets grant to help survivors

LocalPublished: 01 March 2006

Caf? Europa is a once-a-month social event for Holocaust survivors that many Jewish Family Service agencies around the country offer. For many survivors, the Caf?'s music, refreshments, and conversation offer a rare outlet for fun and entertainment.

Many survivors are lonely, many are in need, and they look forward to the Caf? as their raison d'etre. But in some places those programs are threatened by lack of funds. At Jewish Family and Children Services in Wayne, the Wallerstein Foundation for Geriatric Life Improvement is making these caf? afternoons possible. But what about the other important needs of the remaining survivors, housing and health care?

 

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How do you make a life-or-death-decision?

LocalPublished: 01 March 2006

Frank Buchweitz and others will discuss emergency medical decisions Saturday night.

With medical care issues more and more on the front burner, there is a focus on the elderly. But health care issues are not just about the elderly, and serious or sudden illness can debilitate a family. A sudden injury, a childhood disease, a newborn infant with problems, and the like often force regular folks to make life-and-death decisions. And often they can't because they don't have all the information needed to do so. They are under stress, lack knowledge, and can only hope they make the right choices — and all of this is complicated further for Orthodox Jewish families, for whom halachah sets precedent. And that precedent is often different than one might imagine. It is not always the case, for example, that extreme measures need to be taken to save a life. Sometimes you need to let a person go. But how do you know when? And how do you decide?

 

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Talking about our dirty secret

LocalPublished: 22 February 2006

Fair Lawn Jews discuss domestic violence

About '0 years ago, openly discussing the subject of domestic violence in the Jewish community was considered by most taboo. Mikvah ladies weren't checking for bruises, rabbis were unschooled in how to respond to victims, teaching school children to recognize when they were being abused was unheard of in the day school system, the idea of dialing 911 was anathema. There was a lack of information in the Jewish community about where to go for help. The terms "domestic violence" and "Jewish community" were seldom uttered in the same sentence. Domestic violence was swept under the rug, Jewish women stayed in bad relationships longer than women from any other group, regardless of other factors, like economics and intellectual ability — even though violence occurred across the board, in 30 percent of families, even in very observant homes.

 

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Objets d’heart

LocalPublished: 15 February 2006

Jewish Heritage Fair showcases family heirlooms

Debbie Tiecholtz Geudalia and her daughter display the siddurim that traveled around the world. photo by jeanette Friedman

NEW MILFORD – Jewish history is often expressed through objects. Some, like candlesticks and kiddush cups, are predictable storytellers, as is a concentration camp uniform jacket. Trumpets, gold bracelets, and pots and pans are a bit less obviously so. Yet all of these items, and others — including Tiffany flatware, fine tea sets, scraps of cloth, and bits of paper — told myriad Jewish histories of area residents at a Jewish Heritage Fair Feb. 7 at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County here. More than '00 people packed the school's resource room to view such family heirlooms gathered by fifth-graders.

 

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Garrett meets with Jewish groups on Air Force Academy guidelines

Rep. Scott Garrett (R-Fifth District) meets with the North Jersey Board of Rabbis on Jan. 3.

Garrett's district runs from Bergenfield, New Milford, and River Edge through parts of Sussex and Hunterdon counties. He was one of 71 congressmen and two senators who wrote to the White House to protest guidelines written at the Air Force Academy in Colorado after a number of non-Christian cadets complained they were being harassed by evangelical officers, chaplains, and cadets, proselytizing for Christianity.

A loss deeper than anyone can understand

Andrea Bronfman

...The most amazing thing about her was that she understood the needs of young Jews who were fed up with the establishment, young people looking for their own paths in order to love who they were as Jews. "We talk about it all the time," she said. "In fact, we just finished a study that discovered that teens are all over the Web, but they are not at Jewish sites. When you go to those sites yourself, and then you go the sites that teens go to, you can see why." That meant tolerating materials, points of view, and behavior that many in the establishment couldn't deal with on any level. As a result, she funded the Website Jewlicious, the record company J-Dub, and the magazine Heeb. She had a global view....

Fulfilling an obligation: The book of eternal pages

Eta Wrobel is literally the poster girl for jewishpartisans.org.

Ailing Israeli girl gets local girl’s help

Irene Bolton, director of life-long learning at Temple Beth Or in Washington Township, is surrounded by giraffes and giraffenalia, which may seem like a silly thing for a grown woman. But Irene Bolton is no ordinary woman, and there is a serious reason for all the long-necked funny-looking creatures that are ubiquitous in her office.