On Nov. 8, 12 candidates will be vying for five open seats on the Teaneck Board of Education (BOE). The increased interest comes on the heels of the controversial exit of Superintendent Christopher Irving, who left the district July 1 after a year of public disputes with board members.
On September 28, Tzom Gedaliah, seventh- and eighth-graders from Ben Porat Yosef, RYNJ, Tenafly Chabad Academy, The Moriah School, Yavneh Academy, Yeshivat He’Atid and Yeshivat Noam joined together for a screening of the acclaimed documentary “Screenagers.” Students were divided by grade and gender and gathered at four of the participating schools for the Yom Iyun program, which comes on the heels of the RCBC’s “Living Connected” community-wide Shabbat that engaged more than a dozen area shuls in technology awareness. “Screenagers” was created in 2016 by physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston, who describes growing up in a tech-saturated world where she believes that balance needs to be drawn between screen time and screen-free time.
Cinch, the Englewood-based grocery delivery service, is joining the team at National Retail Solutions (NRS). A division of IDT, NRS was founded in 1990 and offers a network of point-of-sale services to help smaller- to medium-sized businesses, including convenience stores, family restaurants, florists, liquor stores and bodegas, upgrade their outdated cash registers to the technology necessary to compete with larger retailers. “NRS is essentially bringing these businesses into the 21st century, and Cinch is excited to be a part of the process,” said Ari Korman, Cinch founder and CEO. Korman and his brother Josh started Cinch with the vision to create a convenient online shopping experience that offers a great selection of bulk-sized groceries from warehouse-club stores at reasonable prices with no membership fees, no minimum quantities and free delivery.