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Abby Meth Kanter
Visitors walk into the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass.
February 19, 2026, 9:56 am
‘Between Two Worlds’
West Caldwell library to host Yiddish Book Center program 
By Abby Meth Kanter
Cantor Riki Lippitz, left, and Cantor Joel Caplan
May 29, 2025, 10:00 am
Honoring the founders of “Community of Harmony”
The two pitch-perfect cantors who launched Kol Dodi will be serenaded in song
By Abby Meth Kanter
Grandfried Barbara Sebiri and her young friends prepare for the seder.
January 26, 2024, 2:28 pm
Grandfriends go to school
Intergenerational program flourishes at Agudath Israel in Caldwell
By Abby Meth Kanter
October 12, 2022, 5:57 pm
The wait is over
Kosher supermarket to open in West Orange
By Abby Meth Kanter
Anne Luria Burg installs the “Soaring into 5783” birds art installation at Congregation Agudath Israel in Caldwell.
September 22, 2022, 9:58 am
Birds bear messages of ‘hope, healing, and uplift’
Local artist takes flight with project ‘soaring into 5783’
By Abby Meth Kanter
Maayan cuts out the circles after rolling the dough as she makes hamantaschen with her grandmother, Abby Meth Kanter.
September 15, 2022, 9:58 am
A synagogue cookbook unlike other synagogue cookbooks
Mixing vegetarianism and interfaith relations, ‘Nourishing Our Souls’ fulfills its mission
By Abby Meth Kanter
On location at Hunan Spring Restaurant in Springfield, Rachel Harrison Gordon directs Chad L. Coleman as Birdie’s father in “Broken Bird.”
March 16, 2022, 6:55 pm
Festival short celebrates ‘mosaic’ of dual identity
Local filmmaker’s first work is a journey of self-discovery
By Abby Meth Kanter
“Love and Mazel Tov” is an unconventional love story set in Berlin.
March 9, 2022, 6:53 pm
Jewish film fest offers eclectic mix in hybrid format
By Abby Meth Kanter
The writer in her NJJN office on the Aidekman campus in Whippany, 2006.
July 29, 2020, 10:50 am
An editor since 1996 pays homage to ‘voice of community’
By Abby Meth Kanter
My great-grandmother Surah Hennah’s gravestone in Bardejov. Photo by Eric Meth
July 22, 2020, 9:24 am
A secret deed may be key to a life well lived
By Abby Meth Kanter
Photo By Abby Meth Kanter
April 1, 2020, 12:49 pm
Denied memories
Pandemic victim is erased from family history
By Abby Meth Kanter
Filmmaker Rachel Harrison Gordon: Her film explores “ideas of race expectations and self-discovery.”
February 26, 2020, 2:43 pm
Homegrown NJ film aims to ‘celebrate complexities of people’
Rachel Harrison Gordon explores ‘mosaic of identities’ in first film
By Abby Meth Kanter
The Loose Canons
September 25, 2019, 3:51 pm
This group of musical Jews ‘love entertaining’
Loose Canons bring their eclectic repertoire to Caldwell
By Abby Meth Kanter
“Wajib”
March 6, 2019, 1:20 pm
Film fest celebrates diverse cinema culture
By Abby Meth Kanter
In the midst of war, Golda never stopped “crying for peace,” said Feldshuh.
March 6, 2019, 1:07 pm
Tovah Feldshuh revels in her ‘greatest role’
Film captures play’s celebration of Golda Meir
By Abby Meth Kanter
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