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October 10, 2024

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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

Ely Winkler

A gay Orthodox Jew comes home

By Joanne Palmer

Ely Winkler of Eshel makes a complicated, heartfelt return to the community of his childhood

Students worked through this New Yorker story by Roxane Gay; they found much to discuss there.

The genie is out of the bottle

By Merrill Silver

What it’s like to teach a class of Haitian ESL students right now

Gilad Korngold speaks and Nitza Korngold, next to him, listens, at Rockland Community College.

‘We walk around like zombies’

Hostage’s father expresses personal anguish while scorning government efforts

Ruth Reichl is at home in the Hudson Valley.

‘The kitchen was my happy place’

By Curt Schleier

Ruth Reichl dishes about food, farming, and family

Double dates — October 7 and Tishrei 22

Tragedies mark the calendars, no matter which one is used

From the best hosts to the best guests

By Gabriel Geller

Editorial

Column

Shammai Engelmayer

What the shofar says about us

Opinion

Opinion

Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz

For all our sins

(On the Anniversary of October 7)

Opinion

It’s time to take that hill – the Torah’s playbook for post-October 7

Letters

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Cemetery visiting day

Walk to fight women’s cancers in Paramus

Symphony in Summit

Online memorial program

Torah dedication in Brookside

MetroWest community commemoration

Highland Park remembrance

Touro remembrance

Women’s program in Passaic

Community program in Whippany

Miriam Herschlag

One year after October 7

Wednesday, October 9, noon

Benjamin Mann

Wednesday, October 9, 1 p.m.

Helene Sinnreich

Hunger and the Holocaust on Zoom

Wednesday, October 9, 6:30 p.m.

Israeli dancing in Rockaway

Rabbi Charlie Popky

Thursday, October 10, 10 a.m.

Charity walk in Paramus

Book club begins a new read

Rabbi Mordechai and Shterney Kanelsky flank Danny Danon. (Courtesy BA)

Bris Avrohom leadership meets Israeli ambassador to the U.N.

JFSCNJ packs goods for Tomchei Shabbos

Union County Holocaust survivors enjoy an intergenerational brunch at JFSCNJ with volunteers from Congregation Israel in Springfield (Courtesy JFSCNJ)

JFSCNJ intergenerational program with Union County Holocaust survivors

New exhibit at Heidi Gallery at JSDD in Livingston

Dr. Marty Minner

Indiana researcher stops at historical society

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?

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

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Pricey scraps of genius?
Israel places 5th at Eurovision

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Full Coveragecommunity

Book club begins a new read
Bris Avrohom leadership meets Israeli ambassador to the U.N.
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
Chamber music in Westfield
RVCC slates webinar with artists of ‘Bearing Witness’ exhibition
Learn to manage stress
JFSCNJ offers online support to college students
Brunch and Learn in Livingston
Book talk on Zoom
Checking tefillin and mezuzot during Elul
Hostage vigil at Livingston Town Hall

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