An anonymous donor has offered $20 million to Manhattan’s Lincoln Square Synagogue to enable it to complete construction on its new building just one month after cost overruns had threatened to abort the project in midstream.Read More
There is also no suspense. Democratic Congressman Steve Rothman is expected to be comfortably reelected, as are the county officials who are also up for re-election. The hotly contested gubernatorial campaign was last year; the town elections, which bring out tensions between the Orthodox and other sections of this diverse town, are held in April.Read More
A school district in New Jersey may become the first in the nation to create a Hebrew-language immersion track in a public school — and to supplement it with voluntary after-school religious classes paid for by parents in space rented from the district.Read More
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