Tag: NCFJE
Released Time Program Distributes Shmurah Matzah to Hundreds of NYC Public School Students
The Released Time program allow for public school students with parental permission to take time during regular school hours to receive religious instruction.
Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate, Warns Crown Heights-based ‘Operation Survival’ (video)
"Some people still tend to think of drug use as an 'outside problem', but the reality is that addiction doesn't discriminate."
Operation Survival: ‘Local Event to Address Issue That’s Become a National Epidemic’
Hundreds of local Jewish community members crowded into a wedding hall to hear about how to deal with the plague of substance abuse.
Jewish Program Launches Opioid Overdose Prevention Project
NCFJE's Operation Survival program is again shaking up the Jewish world with a new opioid overdose prevention project.
Kapparot ‘Sacrificial Chicken’ Ritual Gets Green Light in New York
A NYS Supreme Court judge has given a green light to the ancient Jewish custom of kapparot, transferring sins to a chicken before Yom Kippur.