Bergen County, New Jersey

Let’s shoot the messenger. It is much easier than confronting the pain and polarization unleashed by the message. The messenger in this case is the…

Haifa native Vered Adoni did not know much about Israel’s legal system when she volunteered to lead a professional exchange trip for the Bergen…

New York, the city that never sleeps, is directly across the Hudson River from the final bastion in New Jersey to take seriously its Sabbath day of…

A Friend of the FamilyBy Lauren GrodsteinAlgonquin Books304…

A rabbi who lives next door to the New Jersey mansion where Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi sought to stay during his first US visit wants to buy the…

It is the loveliest property on the block in a genteel neighborhood of Englewood, New Jersey. Everything about the mansion is picture-perfect: the…

The sex scandal purportedly involving Rabbi Leib Tropper of the Eternal Jewish Family - in which he was reportedly engaged in sexual misconduct with…

Loretta Weinberg is terrific with toddlers and has a lot of advice about how people should behave. But she is not your typical bubbe. Instead, she is…

Jewish day schools in the US could generate $100 million annually through better financial management, a new study has found. The study identified…

Tooth paste and toilet paper. This is what we have come to here in one of the wealthiest Jewish communities in the US - Bergen County, New…

Along with hitting the surf and the sand, David Paterson, New York's first black governor, went to shul last Shabbat, turning up in the Hampton…

While American college students prepare to visit the Jewish state on free birthright israel trips during the winter school break, teenagers from the…

Two small planes collided over the Everglades Saturday, crashing into the swamp, and authorities said there were no survivors. A Piper aircraft and…

Students in 12 northern New Jersey towns got an unexpected day off Thursday after a threatening letter warned that several schools would be "blown…

The 60-year-old New Jersey woman who last week gave birth to twins has returned home with the babies, saying she feels "fantastic."Frieda Birnbaum,…

Pennsylvania: Sen. Rick Santorum toured small towns in a Republican stronghold Monday, trying to convince voters that electing a Pennsylvania…

I came to teach English at a Nahariya day camp this summer along with other volunteers from Bergen County, New Jersey. Nahariya and the northern New…

Bruce Merrifield, whose greatly accelerated process for making proteins helped develop an array of medications and earned him the 1984 Nobel Prize in…

It took many years for the religious Jewish community - haredi and Modern Orthodox - to admit that it was not immune to incidents of sexual abuse…

The Tenafly Jewish community has won a six-year battle with local officials over the right to place symbolic plastic strips on utility poles to…