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Tuvia returns to his roots

By Joanne Palmer

What’s it like to live in Mea Shearim? Tuvia Tenenbom tells us

This poster shows some of the vibrant young people Hamas murdered on October 7.

‘And yet we dance’

By Joanne Palmer

Academy for Jewish Religion’s machzor supplement adds to the liturgy as we look back at this terrible year

Max, David, Michelle, and Brooke Dryerman (GoFundMe photo)

‘Nobody has any words’

By Joanne Palmer

Brooke, Michelle, and David Dryerman of Woodcliff Lake die when family car crashes

Donny Deutsch

A seat at the table

By Joanne Palmer

TV personality Donny Deutsch talks about being proudly Jewish after Oct. 7

Dr. Jonathan Gribetz

‘Reading Herzl in Beirut’

By Joanne Palmer

Historian Jonathan Gribetz will discuss the PLO’s surprising Research Center

Participants of the New Member Institute gather for a group portrait in 2023. The retreat was held on the top of Aspen Mountain.

Leadership program expands

Wexner Foundation will train new cohorts of Jewish community activists

Editorial

It’s good to listen

Column

Shammai Engelmayer

Why the ‘atoning chicken’ must go

Opinion

Max L. Kleinman

Israel’s great virtue is also its liability

Opinion

Joseph C. Kaplan

All the news that doesn’t fit

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Hillary Goldberg

Silence is not an option

The imperative to confront antisemitism

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Dr. Alan Kadish

University leaders must root out hate

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Online support for college students

Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter (Courtesy YU)

Online book talk

Monday, September 23, 8 p.m.

Learn to manage stress in West Orange

Jonathan Gribetz

Palestine Liberation Organization

Tuesday, September 24, 7:30 p.m.

Dr. Jonathan Schanzer

Talking about Israel in Cranford

Tuesday, September 24, 8 p.m.

Shabbat in Scotch Plains

Jewish art online

Paul Beller (Courtesy NCJW Metro-Jersey Section)

Holocaust survivor to speak in Edison

Alyza Lewin Esq., left, Dov Ben-Shimon, Russel G. Pearce, and Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe

Jewish law symposium this week

Rachel Coalition to host annual community education luncheon

Chamber music in Westfield

Aish Discovery seminar draws record crowds

“Alice” by Maxine Hess (Photos courtesy of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), Inc.)

RVCC slates webinar with artists of ‘Bearing Witness’ exhibition

New MetroWest cookbook gets you cooking

By Beth Janoff Chananie

Dov Ben-Shimon

Dov Ben-Shimon looks back

By Dov Ben-Shimon

As he prepares to leave, the Federation exec talks about the strength of the community

ON THE COVER: Rachel Goldberg-Polin speaks at her son Hersh’s funeral in Jerusalem on September 2. (Gil Cohen-Magen/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Rachel Goldberg-Polin at son Hersh’s funeral: ‘Finally, you’re free’

By Philissa Cramer

“I will love you and I will miss you every single day for the rest of my life … I just have to teach myself to feel you in a new way.”

A covered courtyard at Hakhel in Jerusalem was filled with mourners the day after Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose family are prominent members, was found to have been killed in Gaza. Hundreds of other people crowded outside the gates. (Deborah Danan)

At the Jerusalem synagogue where Hersh danced, now grief and anger reign

By Deborah Danan

An image of Hersh Goldberg-Polin is onscreen before the Israeli Premier League match between Hapoel Hadera and Hapoel Jerusalem in Jerusalem on August 31. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Our collective, endless grief is an expression of love, and our most powerful weapon

By Dr. Mijal Bitton

At funeral, Israeli president asks for forgiveness from Goldberg-Polin family

By Philissa Cramer

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff is at a prayer vigil to honor the six Israeli hostages killed in Gaza and those who remain in Hamas captivity at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington on September 3. (Valerie Plesch for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

‘I’m gutted,’ Doug Emhoff says

Joe Biden: I am devastated and outraged by murder of American-Israeli Goldberg-Polin

Attorney General Merrick Garland has filed criminal charges against Hamas. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

U.S. Justice Department files criminal charges against Hamas

Israelis protest demanding a ceasefire and a deal to release hostages outside the home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on August 31. (Saeed Qaq/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel is reeling from an unbearable tragedy. But does it change anything?

ON THE COVER: In a promotional photograph, Dr. Victor Parsonnet displays equipment he uses when he performs a vascular graft. (Julie Parsonnet)

Happy birthday, Dr. Parsonnet

By Joanne Palmer

Local surgeon, musician, philanthropist turns 100

ON THE COVER: Campers run with an Israeli flag on Yom Yisrael at Camp Nesher.

A summer of healing

By Joanne Palmer

Local Jewish camp leaders look back at a challenging, emotional, joyful season

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