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Film in Teaneck
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Israeli fair/shuk in Fair Lawn
Tuesday, November 10, 6–9 p.m.
Support groups online
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Ulpan in Tenafly
Wednesday, November 11, 6:50 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Bootcamp for filmmakers in Teaneck
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Online book talk
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Film and talk in Wyckoff
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Come From Away in Tenafly
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Sunday, November 15
Bris Avrohom dinner
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Art and learn
Monday, November 16, 10 a.m.
Combatting antisemitism
Monday, November 16, 1:30 p.m.
Zoom memoir workshop
Monday, November 16, 4–5:30 p.m.
Israel’s 2026 election
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I am trying to figure out why there is a weather app. All day it had been telling me that it wasn’t going to rain in Jerusalem until 6 p.m. At 4 p.m., I am walking Danish back to her apartment and the skies open up, the lightning is lighting up the sky, the thunder is clapping, and I, of course, have no rain apparel. Fortunately, we brought the double stroller with us and my amazing DIL #2 had the rain cover in the basket. Babka looks like a drowned...
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The days might be getting shorter, the mood around the world might be getting grimmer — but what better time than now to spread a little light? And how better to do it than through — collectible sports cards? With Jewish stars on them? As in the six-pointed triangle,...
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Tracking Tuvia’s travels
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Joanne Palmer
Interviewing Tuvia Tenenbom is always an experience. And most likely it’s even more of an experience to be interviewed by Tuvia. His latest book, “Excuse Me, Is This Yours?” is about the West Bank — Judea and Samaria, or the Occupied Territories, or Tuvia’s preferred Biblical Israel, or BI...
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Climbing Kilimanjaro
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Stefanie Diamond
As very busy people in busy digital worlds, we often focus only on things that affect our inner circle directly. Outside of our personal passions, interests, and affinities, and our kids’ activities, interests, and affinities, we tend to stay in our own lanes. Not because we lack...
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Playing together
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Joanne Palmer
Even if you strip it of anything to do with politics, it’s a fascinating idea. A chamber ensemble of young musicians, alumni of Polyphony, will be part of “A Taste of Home,” a program that includes both music and food, but not as in having good food available...
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