Micah is one of a growing number of congregations using technology to address two of the most vexing challenges facing supplemental, or Hebrew, schools: how to teach Hebrew effectively and how to best make use of increasingly limited classroom hours.

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“Last month, when my 4-year-old daughter, Ellie, started at the public elementary school down the block and I looked around her freshly decorated classroom, it hit me just how diverse our neighborhood is,” the author said. “But I also feel a little wistful, particularly about the lack of Jewishness around us.” more>

Armed with chainsaws and other heavy-duty equipment, hundreds of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints—some traveling from as far as Salt Lake City—are mobilizing to clean up a long-neglected Jewish cemetery in Queens later this month. Though the two groups have clashed in the past over church members’ policy of posthumously baptizing Jews, relations have improved in recent years. more>

Bayside Cemetery is in shambles. The Gen-X members of the shul that owns it can’t pay for upkeep. Who’s responsible now? more>