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Susan Bloom
Luna Kaufman presents fellow survivor Naftali Laks with a copy of her memoir, Luna’s Life, during their Sept. 4 meeting. 
September 14, 2016, 12:00 am
‘The whole experience never leaves me’
NJJN brings together Shoa survivors interned in same camps in Poland
By Susan Bloom
Luna Kaufman is serenaded by an Army quartet following the dedication of The Liberator Tree on July 23. 
August 24, 2016, 12:00 am
Survivor inaugurates ‘Liberator Tree’
By Susan Bloom
Streit’s factory exterior as it appeared c. 1970s.
April 14, 2016, 12:00 am
‘Resistance, resilience’ in a changing world
Documentary charts decades of Streit’s, iconic matza maker
By Susan Bloom
Participants and organizers at “Criminal Justice Reform: Formulating the Jewish Response,” from left, Melanie Gorelick, director of the Community Relations Committee of Greater MetroWest NJ; CRC member Mark Dunec; panelists Dquan Rosario, Laur
April 13, 2016, 12:00 am
‘Tikun olam’ urged in criminal justice reform
Experts explore unequal punishments, ‘pivotal moment of crisis, hope’
By Susan Bloom
November 11, 2015, 12:00 am
Taking ‘heart’: ‘Every survivor’s story is unique’
Questions for Meg Wiviott
By Susan Bloom
At the March 1 Bris Avrohom event are, from left, Rabbi Mordechai and Shterney Kanelsky, their daughters Chanie Wilschanski and Brochie Kanelsky, and their daughters-in-law Chaya and Chani.     
March 11, 2015, 12:00 am
Making mitzvot in memory of a daughter
Chabad couple turn infant’s yahrtzeit into ‘affair to remember’
By Susan Bloom
Irvin Ungar
March 4, 2015, 12:00 am
Artist vs. tyranny
Agudath Israel hosts program on Arthur Szyk, “advocate for humanity”
By Susan Bloom
Holocaust survivor Luna Kaufman, right, with Nina Wolmark, daughter of famed sculptor Nathan Rapoport, whose Warsaw Ghetto Monument served as a focal point during the opening ceremonies of the new Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.&nbsp
December 31, 2014, 12:00 am
Local survivor greets ‘new day for Poles’
Luna Kaufman attends new Jewish museum’s opening in Warsaw
By Susan Bloom
Over 150 teens and college students came to the Aidekman campus in Whippany to support the Super Sunday phonathon.
December 10, 2014, 12:00 am
Community youth unite for Sunday drive
By Susan Bloom
At Oheb Shalom’s book review event on Oct. 19, In My Brother’s Image author Eugene Pogany was reunited with his former French teacher, Ann Ginsberg, for the first time in 45 years.     
November 5, 2014, 12:00 am
Author returns to thank inspiring teacher
Coincidence brings Essex County native to book club meeting
By Susan Bloom
Jewish residents of Rome, 1943, from Oro Macht Frei
November 3, 2014, 12:00 am
WWII doc describes plight of Rome’s Jews
Questions for Joel Markel and Dr. Susan Zuccotti
By Susan Bloom
Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau, Rabbi Mordechai Kanelsky, Shterney Kanelsky, and leaders of Bris Avrohom celebrate with the eight couples married on Sept. 14.    
September 24, 2014, 12:00 am
Chief rabbi helps mark group wedding
Immigrant couples wed according to tradition at Bris Avrohom gala
By Susan Bloom
December 18, 2013, 12:00 am
Slice of Streit’s
Filmmaker sees America in matza maker
By Susan Bloom
In the mid-’90s, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-Dist. 6), second from right, presented a certificate to Agudath Achim’s Rabbi Herbert and Florence Bialik and congregation president Fred Hochberg, far left.
November 21, 2013, 12:00 am
Shul bids farewell to rabbi of 41 years
By Susan Bloom
November 6, 2013, 12:00 am
Newark program to go ‘from darkness to light’
Concert at cathedral to mark 75 years since ‘Night of Broken Glass’
By Susan Bloom
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