Temple Sinai in Tenafly to Host Charity Dance-a-Thon for Local Non-Profits

Fight Poverty Daceathon At Temple Sinai in Tenafly

By Mel Fabrtikan Teens will descend on Temple Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly for Party 2FIGHT Poverty, a peer run Dance-A-Thon to raise funds for the needy in northern NJ on Saturday, May 19 at 8 pm. The event is open to all 7th & 8th graders regardless of religion or institutional affiliation. Hosted by [...]

Bergen County’s bergenPAC to Host Reggae Legend Ziggy Marley

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Don’t miss this  live performance at bergenPAC, Thursday June 21st at 8PM.   Tenafly, Englewood and other Bergen County residents  have this great opportunity to see a real legend in action.  A five-time Grammy winner, humanitarian, singer, songwriter, producer and Reggae icon, Ziggy Marley has had a fruitful career, in which he has released twelve albums to [...]

Ross Levinsohn A Tenafly High Graduate is Yahoo’s New Interim CEO

Ross Levinsohn Ex Tenafly High Graduate, Yahoos Interim CEO

By Amir Efrati Unlike former Yahoo CEOs Scott Thompson and Carol Bartz, both of whom had no ad experience before taking the top job, Mr. Levinsohn is a veteran of the ad world, having forged strong alliances with executives at Madison Avenue agencies that represent the biggest ad spenders. Mr. Levinsohn who graduated Tenafly High School [...]

Tenafly Chabad House Approved For Expansion

Chabad Tenafly Seeking Expansion

  Tenafly’s Zoning Board of Adjustment granted an approval for an expansion of 10,000 square feet  to the Chabad building located on Harold St. The additional space  is to be used  for additional classrooms, a  recreational room for the Chabad center’s preschool and elementary school and, science and computer labs .  

Cresskill’s Hamrah’s To Close After 55 Years…..

Hamrah's The Iconic Cresskill Womens Specialty Store Closing

BY JOAN VERDON OF THE RECORD The 1,100-square-foot store the Hamrahs opened on Union Avenue in Cresskill in 1957 was crammed with everything from christening gowns to men’s underwear. It was a place where mothers shopped for their sons’ first suits, and where they could pick up a sundress for themselves. Now 55 years later Joyce [...]

Tenafly Resident Improv Comedian Jerry Lazar Passed Away 1960-2012

RIP Jerry Lazar

BY Debbie Galant Baristaville just got a lot less funny. Friends and fans of the Lunatic Fringe were saddened to learn that Jerry Lazar, a founding member of the improv troupe and its assistant director, passed away last Friday of complications following surgery. Jerry Lazar lived in Tenafly, with his wife, Risa Rosenberg, and their two children, Alexander [...]

The Rumor Is Officially Verified….Wholefoods is Coming Soon To Closter……

Wholefoods Market Coming Soon To Closter

Despite the legal trouble surrounding Closter Plaza, Whole Foods Market  website  has officially announced that   a grocery store in the borough is soon to be opened. Needless to say that this will be a huge addition to the to the northern valley residents food shopping experience. The store will service all th neear by towns of Tenafly, Cresskill, Demarest, Alpine, Englewood , Englewood Cliffs and [...]

Tenafly School Year 2013-2014 To End June 21 Instead Of June 26

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Following  a survey conducted back in March of this year The Tenafly Board of Education voted to; close the schools on Election Day begin the school year September 5 instead of September 6 make February break a four-day weekend instead of a full week move spring break from the week of April 22 to the week of April [...]

NJ Governor Christie Visit to Jerusalem puts Christie on world stage

Gov. Chris Christie and First Lady in Jerusalem

  Tenafly and  many other Bergen County residents follow  Chris Christie’s first overseas trip since taking office and watching the Holy Land  rolling out the red carpet. NJ Governor Christie while touring Israel,  met behind-closed doors with Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu for about an hour before making a pilgrimage to the Western Wall, where Christie was mobbed by Americans. [...]

Portraits of Holocaust Survivors On Display At The Tenafly JCC

Wilma Bulkin Siegel at the Kaplen JCC in Tenafly

By Harvey Lipman – The Record Two dozen portraits are among the paintings by Dr. Wilma Bulkin Siegel on display through April 26  on the walls of the Waltuch Art Gallery on the second floor of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly. “It started seven or eight years ago when I met the head of the [...]