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How does he do that?

Dani Shachar from the Jewish Institute for the Blind shows what he can do

From top left: Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel, Esra Tozan of Peace Islands Institute, Pastor Mark Suriano of 1st Congregational United Church of Christ, Fatih Silverhill and Hakan Yesilova of Peace Islands Institute. From bottom left, Angela Young of the Unitarian Society, Pastor Marc Stutzel of Christ Lutheran Church, and Ellen Michelson of B’nai Israel. (Naomi Weinberg)

Giving thanks and breaking bread together

Sharing Iftar, a meal for peace, with the Peace Islands Institute

Presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance are at a heated meeting in the Oval Office on February 28.

Chess thinks but poker bluffs

By Joanne Palmer

Putin outplays Trump and Witkoff; Zelensky’s a wild card

The Israel Klezmer Orchestra clowns for the camera. (All photos courtesy the Israel Klezmer Orchestra)

Gotta sing! Gotta dance!

By Ivy Schmerken

Millburn shul connects to Israel and its own centennial through klezmer

Abbi and Jeremy Halpern

Kushner schools dinner to honor community leaders, alumni

Dancers from the Daglanut Kushner Dance Group, from the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy, perform with Israeli flags. (Jerry Siskind)

Livingston celebrates Israel’s birthday

Editorial

Overcoming challenges

Column

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Australia, once famous for its chill vibe, is a sewer of antisemitism

Opinion

Joseph C. Kaplan

Trump, Ben-Gvir, and my vanished abode

Opinion

Here’s to the Orange and Brown

Opinion

Holding Harvard accountable for mistreating Jews

Opinion

Rabbi Mendy Kaminker

The rabbi in the iconic picture

Opinion

Daniel Radin Ph.D.

Bernie Sanders the hypocrite

Husband #1 and Mother’s Day

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Eva R. Wiener

Talking about the MS St. Louis

Vinni Taneja

Sound healing in West Orange

Women’s discussion in Rockaway

Shabbat Lag B’Omer in Rockaway

Shabbat Lag B’Omer in West Orange

NORPAC goes to Washington

Golf in Livingston

Joyce Marlin, Peppy Margolis, and Cantor Bruce Ruben

Marking Yom HaShoah in Morris Plains

The Bat Sheva-Chaya Esther Mikvah’s immersion room (Courtesy BA)

Gala dinner on May 18 for Bat Sheva-Chaya Esther Mikvah

Shirley Russak Wachtel

Author talks in person and online in East Brunswick

Friendship Circle plans gala banquet

H.E. Nancy Khedouri, who is Jewish and a member of Bahrain’s Shura Council (Upper House of Parliament); Governor Phil Murphy, H.E. Houda Nonoo, First Lady Tammy Murphy, Emma Murphy, and former U.S. Senator George Helmy (D-NJ) (Governor’s office)

New Jersey governor visits Bahrain shul

Learning about the Seeing Eye program

JVS of MetroWest accepting loan/grant applications

(Jerry Siskind)

Livingston shul group tours Manhattan’s Jewish Upper East Side

‘The Ball Dreams of the Sky’

By Joanne Palmer

Poet Henry Schipper, son of Holocaust survivors, weaves baseball, history, and love

CUNY protest against antisemitism
(Ironbound Films)

Trouble on campus

By Joanne Palmer

‘Blind Spot’ talks to students facing – and fighting – antisemitism

Surviving the Shoah in Budapest

By Joanne Palmer

Gabe Schlisser tells his story

Gabe Schlisser’s blended postwar family included his stepfather, Morris, his mother, Katalin, and his stepsister Miriam; that’s Gabi at the right.

Remembering Hy Eisman

By Larry Yudelson

Cartoonist who drew Popeye lived in Glen Rock

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