LIVINGSTON, NJ — More than 140 attendees from Temple B’nai Abraham’s congregation and the community-at-large listened in rapt attention as demographer Steven Cohen enumerated and explored how the strong post-war “middle” of American Jewry is shrinking. Speaking at this year’s Bloom Family Memorial Lecture, titled “The Shrinking Jewish Middle,” Cohen is the research professor of […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Temple B’nai Abraham Sisterhood’s annual spring gala fundraiser will be held at Cedar Hill Country Club, Livingston, on Thursday, April 26, at 7 p.m. This year’s event features stand-up comedian Judy Gold, the winner of two Daytime Emmy awards. She has made numerous appearances on “The Steve Harvey Show,” “The View,” “The […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Rabbi Faith Joy Dantowitz of Temple B’nai Abraham will receive her doctor of divinity, honoris causa, from her alma mater, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. This honor comes upon her completion of 25 years in the rabbinate. A graduation ceremony will be held Thursday, May 3, at Congregation Emanu-El in Manhattan. […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Temple B’nai Abraham’s Congregational Learning offers classes in “History Through Text” with Rabbi Clifford Kulwin throughout the year at the temple, 300 East Northfield Road, Livingston. The topic this year is “The Jewish Religion.” Taught in blocks of several weeks, each class will also be a stand-alone unit so that an inability […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — On Wednesday, April 18, from 4 to 8 p.m., Temple B’nai Abraham will host a blood drive, sponsored by Men’s Club and Social Action Committee in conjunction with Community Blood Services, at the temple, 300 E. Northfield Road in Livingston, entrance on East Cedar Street. Community Blood Services, a not-for-profit organization that […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — On Thursday, April 12, the Temple B’nai Abraham family will gather to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day with a service at 6:30 p.m. The guest speaker will be Peter Hirschmann, whose son and daughter-in-law, Jonathan and Hayley Hirschmann, are temple members. Peter Hirschmann, who will share memories of his own upbringing as the […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — On Monday, March 19, members of Club TBA at Temple B’nai Abraham in Livingston celebrated the “conclusion” of Passover with a Moroccan tradition called Mimouna. Mimouna is a traditional festival celebrated at nightfall on the last day of Passover and throughout the following day until sundown. While most are filled with matzo […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Every year, Rabbi Clifford Kulwin of Temple B’nai Abraham embarks on visits to children of temple members at colleges in the Northeast, Midwest and South, such as Indiana University, University of Michigan, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Penn State, Syracuse, Bucknell, Rutgers, Princeton and many others. He logs numerous driving and flying […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — The students of the Early School of Temple B’nai Abraham enjoyed learning about the upcoming holiday of Passover. They particularly delighted in the hands-on experience of making matzo, unleavened bread, one of the key symbols of this significant Jewish holiday. The students were involved in the entire process from culling the wheat […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — On Monday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m., Temple B’nai Abraham’s Bloom Family Memorial Lecture Fund will present “The Shrinking Jewish Middle,” with Steven M. Cohen, research professor of social policy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, and director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at Stanford University. The temple […]