by Elaine Durbach
NJJN Bureau Chief/Central

Last year, Yaniv Tayar's first serving with the Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey as a shaliah, an emissary for Israel, one of the times when he felt most homesick was Yom Kippur.

He was worried that Yom Hazikaron, the day when Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of violence are honored, would feel the same.

At home, he said, it is a day of extraordinary solidarity and sharing and comfort, and that togetherness is something he wants to evoke for people in New Jersey. more