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We are heartbroken and enraged over the horrific terrorist attacks in Israel. We grieve with the global Jewish community during this challenging time and pray for the return of those kidnapped [...]

  This summer, my family took an eight-hour tour of Yellowstone National Park. We saw flora and fauna, smelled sulfur coming from geysers, got rained on, took many photos and heard more [...]

Written by Dori Frumin Kirshner, Matan’s Executive Director Do you trust your GPS? Have you ever relied on its navigational advice only to find yourself nowhere near your intended destination? [...]

Written by Dori Frumin Kirshner, Matan’s Executive Director Another invitation to a bar mitzvah arrived in our mailbox. I envisioned a typical service followed by the usual photo montage [...]

Written by Dori Frumin Kirshner, Executive Director, Matan Recently, a young man in my community, Sam Singer, became a Bar Mitzvah and used his rite of passage to teach all of us an invaluable [...]

A package arrived today…10 copies of the 2012-2013 Slingshot Guide – the Zagat-like guide to the 50 most innovative non-profits in the Jewish community.  On page 31 is the most [...]

Written by Dori Frumin Kirshner, Executive Director, Matan Originally published in The New York Jewish Week, Friday, July 27, 2012 On Jan. 20, 2009 our 4-year-old daughter forced my husband and [...]

Written by Dori Frumin Kirshner, Executive Director, Matan I just returned from a FLAME concert. What is FLAME, you might ask? FLAME is a collection of talented souls who don’t let any [...]

This letter, written by Matan Executive Director Dori Frumin Kirshner, appeared in the Washington Jewish Week on June 16, 2010. “The news of the planned collaboration between Yeshiva [...]

Written by Matan Executive Director Dori Frumin Kirshner, this article was originally published in the New Jersey Jewish Standard. If you have not yet seen the film “The King’s Speech,” don’t [...]