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.”

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.

For several years, at least, Agudath Israel of America, the organizational arm of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, has demanded that allegations of child abuse be vetted by rabbis rather than directly reported to police. Increasingly, that position is coming in for harsh criticism. Much of that criticism is coming from within the ultra-Orthodox community itself, where advocates of victims of child molestation accuse their own rabbinic leadership of covering up the crimes of molesters, many of whom continued to prey on children for decades.

Agudah’s position is at odds with laws in New York and New Jersey that mandate reporting of child abuse in many circumstances.

There are several reasons 24-year-old Jaime Kaminer is planning to participate in the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s (JDC) Inside Jewish Moscow trip in July.

Kaminer — raised in Paramus and now in her third-year as a neuroscience graduate student at Stony Brook University — agrees with her school’s Hillel rabbi that there is “not much sense of community” among the Jewish students on campus.

“There are tons of graduate students, but we’re sort of a commuter school,” she said. “I’d be happy to come back [from the trip] and spread the word,” galvanizing other students to become more involved in Jewish life.