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January 22, 2025

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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

Before- and during-the-fire shots of the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center.

Resilience from the ashes

By Joanne Palmer

The Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center burned but will keep going

‘Remember this’

By Joanne Palmer

Adrianne Black grew up as a white supremacist and now she can explain that world to us.

‘The Klansman’s Son’

By Joanne Palmer

Child of the white supremacist movement talks about how she left and what she learned

Editorial

Wind and fire

Column

Jewish unity is not more important than Jewish survival

Opinion

Hillary Goldberg

Silence in the face of hatred is surrender

Opinion

Joseph C. Kaplan

The diary we carry with us – part II

Opinion

Who are your influencers and role models?

Opinion

It’s insane. Right?

Opinion

Andrew Silow-Carroll

What an obituary writer learned by saying goodbye to hundreds of people

Memories

What are your favorite memories from when you were little? You favorite smells? Your favorite people? If we are blessed with the ability to remember things, try going back in time to the things that made you the happiest, when you felt safest. When I... Continue Reading

Dr. Willard C. Ashley, Sr.

Shabbat in Wayne

Friday, January 17, wine and cheese at 6:45 p.m., service at 7:30, and an oneg Shabbat afterward

Honoring MLK in NYC

Monday, January 20

Nutrition workshop in West Orange

Tuesday, January 21, 1:30 p.m.

Remembering the Holocaust

Support for widowers

Talking about autocracies

Zoom memoir workshop

Shabbat in Rockaway

Scribe Neil Yerman

Shabbat in Scotch Plains

Friday, January 24, Services are at 7:30 p.m.

Comedy in Princeton

Preschool open house in Livingston

Rabbi Elisha Pearl

Author talk in West Orange to focus on peace

Janet Pfeffer Vignola

Author visits Morris Plains synagogue

Seth Huttel and his children, Moshe, Leora, and Shoshi, with Holocaust survivor Vladimir Masch of Berkeley Heights. (Photos courtesy JFSCNJ)

JFSCNJ Holocaust initiative celebrates first anniversary

A new dog in town — Manischewitz Hot Dogs

Virtual book talk

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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