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Playing together

By Joanne Palmer

Israel’s Polyphony visits New Jersey

About the cover: Polyphony’s Galilee Chamber Orchestra plays in Philadelphia last year. (Polyphony Foundation)

The sukkah-building team at B’nai Israel

For everything there is a season

By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel

But why is this the season for Kohelet?

Sharon Gabay, left, stands with the owner of a cafe in Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter, who’s holding “Jerusalemites.”

First it’s yes, then suddenly it’s no

By Joanne Palmer

Photo anthology about coexistence in Jerusalem rejected because it’s by an Israeli

Jeffrey Solomon

How a philanthropist thinks

By Joanne Palmer

Jeffrey Solomon considers the Jewish community’s past and future

Rabbi Golan Ben-Chorin

Two poems, two Israels

By Joanne Palmer

Rabbi Golan Ben-Chorin looks at different ways to understand his country

Learn about NJ211 online

Walk/run to fight women’s cancers

Lunch and jazz in Morristown

Book of Genesis

Talking about critical issues

Dee Pentyala

Women’s health and hormones

Dr. Yair Ansbacher

October 7 awareness

Knitting for preemies

Middle East update in West Orange

Charity walk in Paramus

Music and healing after October 7

Book club

Israel Bonds celebration

Matt Paxton

PBS star, author talks about downsizing

Pinchas Zukerman (Courtesy PBS)

Pinchas Zukerman is subject of PBS documentary

Editorial

Joy on Simchat Torah

Column

Shammai Engelmayer

Stop ignoring and start acting

Opinion

Joseph C. Kaplan

Deracheha darchei no’am – her ways are pleasant ways

Members of local shuls gather outside Delaney Hall.

Opinion

Morris Lewis and Paula Mack Drill

All are responsible — Delaney Hall and the Jewish community

Carrie Coon in "The Liberation."

Opinion

Eric A. Goldman

Reflections on the Toronto International Film Festival

Opinion

Things we remember

Fruit gems no more

The holiday of Sukkot is almost over. The first few days, as most of you know, have been quite soggy. It really is a shame because children all over the county have spent hours making projects. 26 years ago, just weeks after Son #3...Continue Reading

Transition at Sinai Schools

By Joanne Palmer

Arielle Greenbaum Saposh talks about her new job and the school’s consistent values

Going to Treblinka

By Allan Chernoff

Allan Chernoff writes about taking his family to see his mother’s story

Who will live and who will die

By Joanne Palmer

A look back at September 11 and forward to Rosh Hashanah

UAF 175 crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 [TheMachineStops
(Robert J. Fisch)]

Jerusalem

By Joanne Palmer

Photographer Sharon Gabay talks about his new book

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