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Admiral Herman Shelanski
‘Being a Jew made me a better naval officer’
By Leah Adler
To mark Veterans Day,  Adm. Herman Shelanski will discuss values and leadership
JSU members from schools across Bergen County bowled together on a recent Saturday night.
‘They want a place to just be Jewish in public’
By Abigail Klein Leichman
OU’s Jewish Student Union clubs provide safety — and fun — in high schools
They’re back
By Joanne Palmer
Merrill Silver and her father, Mike Leventer, at Merrill’s daughter’s bat mitzah in 1996.
The little minyan that could
By Merrill Silver
Remembering my father on this Election Day
Lenny Mandel’s father is second from left, looking out at the camera, in the American consulate in Vienna in 1938.
A life of extraordinary journeys
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Father’s yahrzeit stirs a son’s deepest and fondest memories
Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Josef Stalin sit together in this improbably colorized version of the 1945 Yalta conference. (U.S. Army/Public Domain)
First time tragedy, second time farce
By Joanne Palmer
A look at Yalta 2, this time in Shenzhen
Calendar
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Chesed run
Sunday, November 1, 9 a.m.
Yavneh early childhood open house
Sunday, November 1, 9:30 a.m.
Mark Oppenheimer
Author talk in Wyckoff
Sunday, November 1, 9 a.m.
Teen mitzvah clowning
Sunday, November 1, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.
Prof. Foster Hirsch (Courtesy Temple Emeth)
Hollywood and the Holocaust
Sunday, November 1, 10:30 a.m.
Michael Rapaport
Comedy fundraiser in Livingston
Sunday, November 1, 6 p.m.
Sports card trading in West Orange
Monday, November 2, 6–8 p.m.
(Courtesy AJHS)
Online book talk
Wednesday, November 4
Schechter open house in New Milford
Wednesday, November 4, 7 p.m.
Intro to Judaism
Wednesday, November 4, 7:30 p.m.
Lunchtime Torah online
Thursday, November 5, Noon
Genesis and family struggles online
Saturday, November 7, 1–4:30 p.m.
Bea Arthur (TIFF)
Film in Teaneck
Saturday, November 7, 7 p.m.
Dovi Neuburger (Courtesy Rinat)
Comedy in Teaneck
Saturday, November 7, 8:30 p.m.
In-person NYC symposium
Sunday, November 8, 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Allan Chernoff
Polish Jewry online
Sunday, November 8, 10:30 a.m.
Avoiding scams
Sunday, November 8, 11:30 a.m.
(TIFF)
Film in Teaneck
Sunday, November 8, Noon
Chanukah boutique
Sunday, November 8, 2–5 p.m.
Sari Gross, left, and Paula Shaiman
JFCS gala in Closter
Sunday, November 8, 5:30 p.m.
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John DePalma
Veterans program in Fair Lawn
Blue Card executive director Masha Pearl with survivor Adrienne Petrook at a Blue Card program. (Alan Shindelman/Shindel Media, courtesy the Blue Card)
Holocaust survivors celebrate milestone birthdays
Modi
Modi heading to Montclair
Analyzing Israel’s 2026 election
Naomi Miller, left, and Dave Schlossberg (Photos courtesy RVCC)
RVCC Holocaust Institute to commemorate Kristallnacht online
Opinion
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Joanne Palmer
Editorial
Joanne Palmer
It’s important! Go vote!
Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer
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Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer
Jewish law and fair elections
Rosanne Skopp
Opinion
Rosanne Skopp
Transitions and angels
Parashat Vayeira — welcoming the stranger
By Rabbi Joel Pitkowsky
businessman is signing agreement
Letters
Banji Ganchrow
Banji Ganchrow
Man plans, part IV
How many times have I written about man planning and God saying, “Sorry, kid, that isn’t how it works.” So here we go again. I am in Israel to help Matzo Ball’s parents with his new baby sister. That’s my primary objective for being here. Getting to see Danish and her family is an added bonus, and one that I do not ever take for granted. I am either walking up the hill or walking down the hill. Or eating something that I shouldn’t be. But that is another story. On...Continue Reading
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Jewish stars
By Joanne Palmer
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,...Continue Reading
About the cover: Mixed martial artist Natan Levy and Rachel Ziegler are in the JCC MetroWest before the Not Any Deni popup opens there on November 2.
Tracking Tuvia’s travels
By 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...Continue Reading
Climbing Kilimanjaro
By 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...Continue Reading
About the cover: Stefanie Diamond’s photograph shows the sun over Mount Kilimanjaro as she treks with Accessibility Accelerator. (Stefanie Diamond)
Playing together
By 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...Continue Reading
About the cover: Polyphony’s Galilee Chamber Orchestra plays in Philadelphia last year. (Polyphony Foundation)
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  • Knicks coach Red Holzman is on the sidelines during game action against the Philadelphia 76ers on March 5, 1977. (Getty Images)
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  • From “Dust Bowls and Jewish Souls,” set to open November 5 (Courtesy Rutgers Jewish Film Festival)
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  • Sari Gross, left, and Paula Shaiman
    JFCS celebrating the people who care and the lives they touch
  • Michael Rapaport
    Comedy fundraiser in Livingston
  • Rabbi Jordan Millstein and Art Shamsky (Hillary Viders)
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  • 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)
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