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New Jersey Jewish News
New Rabbis Take Reins of Reimagined Congregations
The first Friday after Rabbi Erin Glazer moved into her Maplewood home with her young family, several members of her congregation, Temple Sinai in Summit, welcomed her while socially distanced on her front lawn.
New Jersey Jewish News
NJ Jewish Community Not Sitting Protests Out
Shouting “Say their names!” and “Black lives matter!” while holding a Congregation B’nai Israel banner, members of the Conservative synagogue in Millburn joined an estimated 1,000 people on a June 7 march from Millburn High School to nearby Taylor Park to protest violence against African Americans at the hands of police.
New Jersey Jewish News
B’nai Mitzvah Engagement Opportunity for CBI Families
The chanting of the haftara has become so closely associated with Ashkenazi b’nei mitzva that it even spawned a joke: The singer Neil Diamond is approached by a millionaire to perform at his son’s bar mitzva.
New Jersey Jewish News
Program Bridges Academia, Rabbinate
Rabbi Steven Bayar of Congregation B’nai Israel in Millburn is among the 10 religious leaders in the first cohort of a new program designed to disseminate “great ideas” throughout the Jewish world.
Jewish Exponent
Clal Holds Inaugural LEAP Fellowship at Penn
Rabbi Steven Bayar of Congregation B’nai Israel in Millburn is among the 10 religious leaders in the first cohort of a new program designed to disseminate “great ideas” throughout the Jewish world.
New Jersey Jewish News
NJJN staffers win top journalism prizes
NJJN staff writer Johanna Ginsberg is the winner of the 2014 David Twersky Journalism Award, established in memory of the newspaper’s late former editor.
New Jersey Jewish News
Those We Work With are My Teachers In Life
McROBERTS, Ky. — The morning mist hovers over the narrow valley in the lush Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky. A creek rushing by the side of the main road passes through the town of Neon in once prosperous Letcher County, deep in the state’s coal mining region.
New Jersey Jewish News
You Don’t Know What Impact We May Have
This is the second article on the volunteers’ mission to Kentucky made by Congregation B’nai Israel of Millburn and supporters of the Millburn-based Good People Fund. The first article, “Those we work with are my teachers in life,” appeared in the June 20 issue.
New Jersey Jewish News
I Get to Do Good Stuff All Day Long
Naomi Eisenberger has a background in business; she and her husband bought her father’s men’s clothing business, The Caldwell Men’s Shop, in 1982 and ran it until closing it in 1995. She has also been a teacher and a kosher caterer.
Tapinto.net
Children at Hedwig Gruenewald Early Childhood Center Learn the Joys of Giving
MILLBURN, NJ – Children at the Hedwig Gruenewald Early Childhood Center of Congregation B’nai Israel in Millburn are busy learning the joys of giving at a very young age.
Baristanet
Millburn Synagogue Welcomes Back a Motherwell
People go to their houses of worship to pray, to celebrate, to mourn. At Congregation B’nai Israel in Millburn, there’s the added attraction of the opportunity to bask in the beauty of important modern art.
Tapinto.net
Congregation B’nai Israel and The Good People Fund Make ‘Mitzvah’ Mission to Appalachia
The Mountain Eagle weekly newspaper serves the counties of Southeast Kentucky. A recent edition featured a front page photo story of the demolition of Mike’s Grocery Store, built in 1912, and about to collapse onto Joe Biggs Hollow road.
New Jersey Jewish News
B’nai Israel Congregants Do Tzedaka in Kentucky
Considering the enormous cultural and economic gulf between Millburn, New Jersey, and McRoberts, Kentucky, it’s actually surprising that it takes only 10 hours by car to get from one to the other, said Rabbi Steven Bayar.
New Jersey Jewish News
Millburn Rabbi Helps Families Raise Giraffes
Steven Bayar, who often points to social action as a core feature of his rabbinate at Congregation B’nai Israel in Millburn, has now written a book on transmitting those values to children.