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October 13, 2024

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Remembering October 7 in MetroWest

By Joanne Palmer

The community comes together to grieve — and move forward

Phyllis Chancy Solomon is at last year’s Jewish National Fund-USA Sukkot celebration.

‘That tear just never moved’

JNF’s Phyllis Chancy Solomon talks about commitment, action, grief, resilience, and hope

This is the greenhouse where Abby’s busload of volunteers pulled weeds. (All photos courtesy Abigail Klein Leichman)

Weeding on October 7

By Abigail Klein Leichman

‘Food is memory’

By Merrill Silver

Debbie Paperman, left, and Jessica Lipman are at a Bring Them Home rally in Beverly Hills.

Creating solidarity after October 7

Transplanted from Essex County to L.A., two women work to Bring Them Home

The Jersey Boys at the Paper Mill Playhouse. Ben Diamond, as Bob Gaudio, is at the right. (Jeremy Daniel)

How to play a ‘Jersey Boy’

By Curt Schleier

Ben Diamond is one of the Four Seasons at the Paper Mill in Millburn

Adi Vaxman (Shiran Itzhaki Photography)

Fair Lawn accused of antisemitism again

By Joanne Palmer

Mother goes to the press after her complaints about school bias are ignored

Editorial

Grief, hope, and connection

Column

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Bibi’s vindication emerges with the annihilation of Hezbollah

Opinion

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Joseph C. Kaplan

The privilege of responsibility

Opinion

Rabbi Mendy Kaminker

October 7: past, present, and a bottle of whiskey

Opinion

Stephanie Z. Bonder

Opinion

Hillary Goldberg

Sincerity matters

Letters

The Frazzled Housewife

What can we talk about?

Charity walk in Paramus

Sukkot in Rockaway

Zoom memoir workshop

Back row, from left: Noah Marcus, Israel Bonds’ executive director for New Jersey & Rockland County/Upstate NY; Lazer Rothenberg, Metro NJ chair; and Dr. Alexander Marcus. Bobbi Ostrow and Alan Schall are in the front. (Robert Schneider)

Israel Bonds honors community members

Friendship Circle walk and run will get under way November 3

Elin Diamond at a RAP social helping a child with an art project. (Photograph courtesy of Ann Salzman)

Scotch Plains shul wins award from HIAS

New kosher coffee for the holidays

Adele Raemer shows off her tattoo. It says “Resilience.”

‘If you give up on Nirim, you give up on Israel’

By Joanne Palmer

A kibbutz veteran describes the horror of October 7 – and why she still has hope

Tuvia returns to his roots

By Joanne Palmer

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?

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Israel Bonds honors community members
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JFSCNJ packs goods for Tomchei Shabbos
Indiana researcher stops at historical society
High Holidays in NW New Jersey
Memorial Torah to be dedicated on October 7 in Mendham
Littman Family Memory Center celebration
An Israel update in West Orange
Head to Paterson for the High Holy Days
Chabad tour makes local stops
Holocaust survivor to speak in Edison
Jewish law symposium this week
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Brunch and Learn in Livingston

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