For everything there is a season – and late summer in New Jersey is definitely the season for corn.
Fresh corn is naturally sweet, but it becomes starchier as it ages. So I prefer to make these recipes in the summer when we can get it fresh. (more…)
Many things happened in Shomrei’s garden during the spring and summer of 2025 to keep the gardens beautiful and productive.
This year’s new blooms started in the fall of 2024, when Shomrei Emunah again received 125 bulbs from May in Montclair. About ⅔ of the bulbs were daffodils; the rest were red and yellow tulips. Eliot Fischer and I created a new bed for these bulbs to the left of the main synagogue entrance by the driveway, and then planted the bulbs. The pachysandra plants that we removed were given to another Montclair gardener who was most appreciative of that ground cover plant. The daffodils and tulips burst into colorful bloom this April and May. (more…)
Meet our Service Leaders for the High Holy Days: Rabbi Julie Roth, Talia Lakritz, Sarah Kamenetsy, Rabbi Justus Baird, Karen Kamenetsy, Craig Eichner, and Suzanna Grobman. (more…)
Shomrei welcomes Lana Schreier as the new Office Service Administrator. (more…)
Join us in welcoming Rabbi Uri Allen (he/him) as Rabbi Educator. In that role, Rabbi Uri will continue to serve as our preschool music teacher and will also be teaching our Exploring Judaism class.
Rabbi Uri is a guitar playing, abba [father] of three who loves cooking, traveling around the country to see his favorite band Phish, and learning Torah. His passions in the rabbinate are in educating and teaching learners of all ages, and using music to add contour and depth to Jewish rituals and life.
He is also the spiritual leader of Temple Sha’arey Shalom in Springfield NJ, and has served congregations in Philadelphia PA, Roslyn NY, and Perth Amboy NJ. He has over 20 years of experience in Jewish camping and school environments, and has a private Rabbinic practice which gives him more flexibility to do the things he loves. Rabbi Allen received Rabbinic ordination from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies along with an MA in Rabbinic Studies from American Jewish University, an MA from Tel Aviv University in Jewish Thought in partnership with The Melamdim Teacher Training Program of the Hartman Institute, and he is a graduate of the University of Maryland with a BA in Jewish Studies. He lives in New Jersey with his wife Sari and three children Doron, Aderet and Yedidyah.
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