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NJY Camps flourish during an unusual summer

By Joanne Palmer

Rabbi Abigail Treu of Oheb Shalom Congregation speaks at Franklin-St. John's United Methodist Church. (Lincoln Haley)

Envisioning unity

By Joanne Palmer

Shul and church meet to experience, learn, grow

Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel models one of his chaplain shirts.

Healing sickness, one laugh at a time

By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel

Our correspondent writes about what it’s like to be a chaplain

These are the 2025 fellows in the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous’s Summer Institute for Teachers. (Jewish Foundation for the Righteous)

Bringing the Holocaust closer to students

By Abigail Klein Leichman

Teachers gain new tools and techniques at Jewish Foundation for the Righteous’s Summer Institute

Online Parkinson’s caregiver series

Book talk

Virtual Parkinson’s caregiver series

Zoom memoir workshop

Shabbat on the beach

Mighty Sesame Co. partners with ‘Homemade’

Top row, from left: Eric Martin, Adam Love, Randi Siegel Weniger, Michael Gladstone, Jacob Toporek, Debra Judd, Brian Cohen, Steve Newler, Suzanne Tucker, and Michelle Fiddler. Bottom row: Tracey Hoberman, Jessica Silverstein, Ken Rotter, Stefanie Forman, Rachel Stuart, Lauren Barr, Lauren Kennedy, Naomi Tillman, Scott Stavin, Jeff Silverstein, and Bob Jankowitz

The JCC of Central NJ installs its new board

Rabbi Asher Herson, left, presents Robert Lefkowitz of Pondview Estates the Pillar of Kindness award. (Photos courtesy Chabad)

Chabad Center Super Gala celebrates its 37th anniversary

Debra Gorra Barash and her husband, Cantor David Barash, left, with Cantor Perry and Miki Fine, TBS president Marla Parnes, and TBS’s Rabbi Simeon Cohen. (Jerry Siskind)

Livingston’s Cantor Perry Fine retires

Abbe Greenberg

Forum offers look at ‘The Road Ahead’

Morris County Sheriff James Gannon

Honoring first responders in Parsippany

Editorial

Antisemitism and medical research

Column

Shammai Engelmayer

An ugly, disgustingly unhealthy new law

Opinion

A miracle — we are all still one

Lori Fein’s youngest daughter snuggles as she reads. (Lori Fein)

Opinion

Little gorilla learns to read

Opinion

Rabbi Marc Katz and Rabbi Elliott Tepperman

Why the war in Gaza must end

Opinion

A day at ‘the Beth’ and Iran déjà vu

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Welcome home, Edan

By Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer

Elie Y. Katz and his son Ziggy in Israel this week.

‘We’re all in this together’

By Joanne Palmer

Teaneck family is among thousands trying to find a way back home

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‘I’ve never felt like this before’

By Joanne Palmer

Young IDF lone soldier from Springfield describes how she got there

The Allens are at a family simcha last year.

‘Thank God, the kids are very resilient’

By Joanne Palmer

Rabbi Ely Allen, who made aliyah from New Jersey, describes a special Israeli solidarity

Rachel Lissack and her fiance, Idan Zipris.

‘Resilience — it’s like in the water here’

By Joanne Palmer

Olah from South Orange talks about life in Israel now

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By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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Honoring first responders in Parsippany
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