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Grandparents: The New Jewish Influencers?

Lee Meyerhoff Hendler recalls a pivotal moment that led her to co-found The Jewish Grandparenting Network (JGN), a new organization that recognizes the unique perspective and opportunity grandparents have to influence their grandchildren Jewishly — especially vital when so many children are growing up in multi-faith families. The encounter took place in 2015 in Washington, […]

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Score One For Shabbat

The box score from a basketball game played last Sunday in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center shows that the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan won its league championship by a 11-0 score. But the real winner, according to Gary Pretsfelder, principal of the Conservative K-8 school on the Upper West Side, was Shabbat. The semifinals and finals […]

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