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Climbing Jacob’s Ladder

By Joanne Palmer

Group to feature Jewish, bluegrass, and other American music at Summit shul

This is a photo taken in the Lodz ghetto, early on.

Yes, the Jews did resist

By Curt Schleier

Kaplen JCC will screen Paula Apsell’s ‘They Fought Back’

Lenny Mandel and his wife, Shelly, took a cruise on the Seabourn Encore.

A minyan on the high seas

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Soul to Soul

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Hillary Goldberg

The release of hostages: A triumph at an unbearable cost

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Max L. Kleinman

Remembrance of things past: Kleinman version

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Stephanie Z. Bonder

On the release of the hostages

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Stephen M. Flatow

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Prisoner releases are a terror victim’s nightmare

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Things I used to do

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Alan Dershowitz

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Shabbat in Rockaway

Shabbat in Scotch Plains

Comedy in Princeton

Preschool open house in Livingston

Survivors gather in New York

Remembering the Holocaust

FDU commemorates the Holocaust

Online book talk

White elephant sale

From left, Shira Lankin Sheps, and Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Israel after October 7

Rabbi David Vaisberg (Jerry Siskind)

Remembering MLK in Livingston

Rabbi Meirav Kallush

Local Jewish educator among M² 2025 Jewish education fellows

From top left, Avi and Aviva Vogel; Abigail Hepner Gross; and Michele Mirman, Joseph Sprung, and Diane Lempert (Photos courtesy Sinai)

Sinai annual dinner and campaign

Altie Kasowitz

Women’s Torah class in West Orange

JCC MetroWest gallery seeks art for show

Rabbi Sklar coming to Passaic

The Maccabeats

The Maccabeats performing in Bergen County

ON THE COVER: Amy Lieberman, Ruty Bahar-Keren, and Karen Grossman, new but now good friends, take a break from cooking at the IDF’s Ein HaShlosha base.

Cooking for the soldiers

Local woman goes to Israel to feed the troops

ON THE COVER: The mayor of Ofakim, Itzik Danino, and the mayor of Middletown, Tony Perry, sign a partnership agreement; the relationship was fostered by the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest. (Patrick Olivero)

They’re sister cities now

By Abigail Klein Leichman

Middletown and Ofakim sign agreement

ON THE COVER: From left, Rabbi Meyer May, Michael Cohen, Debra Tantleff, and Josh Berliner, executive director of the New Jersey-Israel Commission, stand together in Trenton.

Wiesenthal Center fights hate

By Joanne Palmer

Some of the violins as they undergo restoration.

Rescued violins sing of hope

By Joanne Palmer

Wharton Arts offers concert with instruments saved from the Shoah

Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest celebrates its centennial

By Joanne Palmer

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