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Anne Frank

Bnai Keshet Pre-K Workshop (ages 3-5)

Three-Film Screening Tribute to Aviva Kempner: Writer, Producer, Director

Jewish values

Yachad Shabbaton

Anne Frank

Bnai Keshet Pre-K Workshop (ages 3-5)

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DANNY MARGULIS, son of Elise Phillips Margulis and Jeff Margulis of Livingston, Feb. 1 at Powerhouse Studios, East Hanover.

Sen. Bernie Sanders at the University of Houston on Feb 23. Getty Images

Moderate Jewish Democrats alarmed at Sanders’ rise

By Shira Hanau

Frontrunner status intensifying rift over Israel, electability

Days after a bomb threat was sent to the JCC MetroWest in West Orange, Gov. Phil Murphy announced that his proposed 2021 budget would include significant increases in funding for non-profit institutions. Photo courtesy Office of the Governor of New Jersey

Bomb threats sent to JCC MetroWest, dozens of Jewish institutions across U.S.

By Johanna R Ginsberg and Stewart Ain

Murphy’s proposed 2021 budget includes bump for non-profits to beef up security

TSTI Art Committee president Richard Koch with curator Armisey Smith in front of “Slave Ship” by Akil Roper. Photos by Johanna Ginsberg

South Orange synagogue art exhibit depicts struggle for civil rights

By Johanna R Ginsberg

North Caldwell’s Andrew Low has spearheaded fund-raising efforts that have exceeded $87,000 to benefit the Valerie Fund. Photos courtesy Wendy Low

North Caldwell athlete nets tens of thousands to aid pediatric cancer patients

By Jed Weisberger

Editorial

Israelis ask: Who’s on first?

By NJJN Editors

Author Elliott M. Rubin wrote “Yiddle Fairy Tales” to “make people smile.” Photos courtesy Elliott M. Rubin

A NJ author’s heimishe take on the Brothers Grimm

By Jed Weisberger

Journal

NCJW/Essex event considers future of Roe v. Wade

By NJJN Staff

Opinion

What’s up is down, and vice versa, on Purim — and today

By Gary Rosenblatt

Opinion

Bernie’s AIPAC snub throws liberal Zionists under the bus

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

The surging candidate shows no interest in forging a wide coalition

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaks at the Clark County Democratic Party's 2020 Kick Off to Caucus Gala at the Tropicana Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, Feb. 20, 2020. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr Commons)

The Gaza border protests in the summer of 2018 led to a heated discussion during the author’s internship. Getty Images

Gaza throws wrench into elections

By Nathan Jeffay

Could Bloomberg win pro-Israel Jews away from Trump?

By Jonathan S. Tobin

A recruitment flyer found on a public board in Maplewood in December 2019 for the New Jersey European Heritage Association, responsible for about 70 percent of the white supremacy leafletting in 2019, according to the ADL.

White supremacy leafletting surges in NJ

By Johanna R Ginsberg

Trend mirrors overall rise of anti-Semitism in state, country

According to the ADL, several hate groups have gone away from using swastikas in their flyers in order to soften their message and broaden their appeal to potential recruits. Photo Courtesy ADL

The short list: NJ white supremacist groups leafletting in 2019

Pleasantville High School senior Ernest Howard prepares to ask Ed Mosberg, through an interactive hologram, about food in the concentration camp of Mauthausen. Photos courtesy of Stockton University

Survivor comes to life in the classroom

By Jed Weisberger

NJ college selected for national test run of holographic technology

Editor's Column

The lesser of two nominees

By Gabe Kahn

Bnai Keshet member and Verona author Martin Golan

Books

A woman reimagined

By Johanna R Ginsberg

Verona author demystifies villainy of Lilith in new novel

Jeremy Rishe, at right, plays the knish man Seth Konig, and Lauren Singerman is his sister Rachel. Photos by Chris Yacopino

Arts

A knish man crosses Delancey

By Sandee Brawarsky

NJ native Cary Gitter ‘works against stereotypes’ in play exploring cross-cultural dating

opinion

The Trump plan gives security, and takes it away

By Michael Koplow

Mark Schonwetter, second from left, with daughters Ann S. Arnold, Isabella S. Fiske, and wife Luba Schonwetter.
Courtesy Schonwetter Family

Holocaust education foundation honors Livingston survivor

Wilf $1M gift will enhance new blood services center in Israel

Maxine Murnick with Nate Melville, son of Lisa and Philip Melville of Scotch Plains, who was the 300,000th recipient of a Greater MetroWest PJ Library book in 2017.

Murnick family gives $4 million to local PJ Library

New endowment is largest gift in North America

One of the tour leaders, Gary A. Rendsburg, is a professor in the Jewish studies department at Rutgers University.

Rutgers Bible scholar to lead tour of Israel

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