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  • A sample of the works from Salvador Dali’s “Aliyah, the Rebirth of Israel” series, currently on view at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. From left, “Orah, Horah,” “On the Shores of Freedom,” which depicts the Eliyahu Golomb refugee ship, and “A Moment in History” which shows David Ben Gurion reading Israel’s Declaration of Independence. (Courtesy the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center)
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  • Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco is in front, second from right; Commissioner Germaine Ortiz is on his right. They’re surrounded by Frisch School staff, students and community members including Jason Shames, the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, and Rabbi Arthur Weiner of the JCC of Paramus/CBT. (Photos courtesy Bergen County)
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    New Jersey governor visits Bahrain shul
  • Dr. Lawence and Rosalie Berman (Courtesy JHSNJ)
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  • Visiting the largest Hindu temple in the U.S.
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  • Catherine Estes addresses the crowd.(Courtesy TBT)
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  • Beth Chananie, the Jewish Standard’s community editor, and her husband, Robert, in Paramus, with Sam the Matzah Ball Man.
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  • Dr. Claudia Setzer, left, and Dr. Gary A. Rendsburg (Photos courtesy Rutgers)
    The Bible and social reform in America
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  • Pictured back row from left, Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel of Congregation B’nai Israel; Esra Tozan, Peace Islands Institute interfaith coordinator; Pastor Mark Suriano of 1st Congregational United Church of Christ, Park Ridge; Fatih Silverhill and Hakan Yesilova of PII. Angela Young of Ridgewood’s Unitarian Society; Pastor Marc Stutzel of Woodcliff Lake’s Christ Lutheran Church; and Ellen Michelson, CBI’s interfaith coordinator, are in the front. (Photo courtesy CBI)
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  • From left: board chair Darrin Peller; head of school Rabbi Daniel Alter; Pam Schlisser, who is receiving the Rabbi J. Shelley Applbaum z”l service award, and board president Jessica Yunger
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    By Leah Adler
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  • Sacred Holocaust scrolls
  • Jewish community leaders and Rockland County officials announcing the security initiative. (L to R) Jewish Federation & Foundation of Rockland County CEO Ari Rosenblum; County Executive Ed Day; Rockland Security Initiative director Ethan Erlich; UJA Federation of New York President and CEO Eric Goldstein; Jewish Community Relations Council New York Community Security Initiative Executive Director Mitch Silber; Jewish Federation & Foundation of Rockland County Board Co-President Marcy Pressman; District Attorney Tom Walsh, and Sheriff’s Captain Tony DeColyse.
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    By Larry Yudelson
  • The first person in the United States to be diagnosed with polio is an Orthodox Jewish man from Monsey. (Getty/Catherine Falls Commercial)
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    By Jacob Henry
  • Scott Richman, left, and Ari Rosenblum
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    By Larry Yudelson
  • From left, Jessica Milstein, national director of Israel Bonds’ Women’s Division; Rockland general chair, Sharon Sasson; Rockland Women’s Division chair Pam Greenspan; Tovah Feldshuh; event co-chair Marilyn Soffer; and Lee Schwartz, Israel Bonds’ executive director for Metro NJ and Rockland/Upstate NY. (Photos by Jeff Karg)
    Israel Bonds Rockland Women’s Division has gala brunch
  • Yitzchok Spivak with the other top scorers in the 2022 International Bible Quiz in Jerusalem. (Sceenshot)
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    By Abigail Klein Leichman
  • A Jewish agency volunteer teaches dance to refugee children at a Jewish Agency hotel in Warsaw.
    As war rages in Ukraine, another visit with the helpers
    By Larry Yudelson
  • Hillel of Rockland delivers
  • Mindy Sayer, representing the Makom religious school, receives the Chromebooks from men’s club co-presidents Eric Zweigbaum, left, Bruce Yore, and Mitch Spiegel
    Rockland shul donates Chromebooks to religious school
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    By Curt Schleier
  • Jerry Chazen
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  • Virginia Norfleet and Andrea Winograd.
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    By Larry Yudelson
  • Left, these large shackles, made in the 17th and 18th century were found in Haverstraw, along with smaller ones designed for women and children. They display the cruelty of slavery. Chains and cotton are markers of enslavement (Photos courtesy Virginia Norfleet Collection)
    Honoring Black history
  • Rockland County sisterhood honorees, top row, from left, Eileen Nekrich and Shari Winkler, both from Congregation Shir Shalom; and bottom row, Jill Degen from the New City Jewish Center and Diane Goldstein from the Orangetown Jewish Center.
    Women’s League honored four Rockland women 
  • Isamu Noguchi’s Momo Taro stands in Storm King.
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    By Miriam Allenson
  • Erin Santana (right) at an event marking the opening of an exhibit about the history of Brownsville, produced by local youth. Monifa Edwards and Veronica Gee (third and fourth from left) were students there and then.
    Remembering the NYC teacher’s strike of ’68
    By Larry Yudelson
  • Leslie Goldress leads a hybrid class at the Rockland Jewish federation.
    Staying hybrid in Rockland
    By Larry Yudelson
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