By Elizabeth Kratz | February 03, 2021
Englewood resident Josh Hartman and Englewood Mayor Michael Wildes are passionate about Chevra Hatzalah, having served their communities in Manhattan as emergency responders for many years. Hartman is leading a new squad called Bergen Hatzalah Englewood Division, which seeks to provide stabilizing emergency services to residents of Englewood. “Hatzalah is an incredible organization that harnesses a first-response model, which is different from the ambulance-based systems currently in most places around the world, including places like Englewood and Bergen County in general,” he told The Jewish Link. “Many members of our Englewood community and indeed the wider Bergen County have lived at some point in communities with a strong Hatzalah presence.”
By Elizabeth Kratz | December 31, 2020
Educators at 17 New York and New Jersey yeshiva high schools and day schools were named as recipients of the Tikvah Fund’s Abraham Lincoln Teachers Fellowship. The inaugural class of 36 fellows will join an advanced seminar on American history and civilization designed for Jewish day school and yeshiva educators. The program, which will run from January to May 2021, will cover a wide range of themes including religion, freedom, self-government, equality and commerce across 400 years of history.
The fellowship “is designed to gather the best and most dedicated teachers of American civilization from Jewish day schools and yeshivas for the purpose of creating a community of teachers and learners who will explore deeply, at the level of a graduate seminar, the enduring themes of American civilization,” said Tikvah’s online academy dean, Harry Ballan. “We do this in a spirit of patriotism and gratitude, with special attenti
By JLNJ Staff | December 24, 2020
Psychotherapist Dr. Alan Winder will virtually sit down with The Jewish Link’s Elizabeth Kratz on Monday to discuss his solution-focused approach to therapy. Dr. Winder works with many types of clients, for individual therapy, couples counseling and family mediation, always with the goal of getting to the root of the problem and leading his clients back on the road to health and happiness.
Join The Jewish Link on Monday, December 28, at 12 p.m. for a Zoom interview with Dr. Winder, during which he will also discuss increased anxiety caused by the pandemic and his practical approach to overcoming this concerning trend. Join the Zoom call at https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72275285434?pwd=SnI1QVBwMERDd0t5aUIvMHl6SnJiZz09
Kodesh Press: Combining Inspiration With Rigorous Judaic Scholarship By Elizabeth Kratz | December 10, 2020
Since Rabbi Alec Goldstein launched Kodesh Press in 2013, the publishing house has brought to market more than 50 titles of Jewish interest from a growing group of approximately 30 authors. His first-ever author was Teaneck’s Rabbi Hayyim Angel, and Kodesh has since become the publisher of choice for two regular Jewish Link columnists: Mitchell First and Rabbi Gil Student. Kodesh has also published books by such luminaries as Englewood’s Rabbi Zev Reichman, Manhattan’s Rabbi Allen Schwartz and Riverdale’s Rabbi Gidon Rothstein, among many others.
Originally from New Rochelle and living now in Teaneck where Kodesh Press is currently based Goldstein received rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 2012. That followed his bachelor’s degree in French language and literature from Yeshiva
By Elizabeth Kratz | December 10, 2020
No one could have predicted, least of all Rabbi Kenny Schiowitz himself, that he would be compelled to lead a 20-plus-rabbi-strong rabbinic council and kashrut agency during a worldwide pandemic, or that his group would have as much impact as it has had. While the Ramaz gemara teacher and rav of Teaneck’s Congregation Shaarei Tefillah spent two years as president of the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County, he focused initially on leading the RCBC through a reorganization of its kashrut arm, focusing on creating a meaningful partnership with other local certifying agencies. However, eight months ago, just following Purim, as the threat of COVID-19 began to touch tri-state area Jewish communities, the decision of the RCBC to close all communal shuls before the government or any other entity moved to make recommendations, would later be heralded across the country as prescient, wise and life-saving.