Around our community
- Seventh graders in the Howard and Joshua Herman Education Center at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/CBI worked with residents of a house run by the Jewish Association for Developmental Disabilities. They decorated flower pots for Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish New Year for trees. (Courtesy FLJC and J-ADD)
- More than 100 people attended a concert by the Jazz Passengers at Temple Beth El of Northern Valley in Closter. The concert was sponsored by Whole Foods Market. This was the group’s debut concert in the new series MusicLAB, Live at Beth El. Roy Nathanson and Curtis Fowlkes of the group are pictured. (Melchior DiGiacomo)
- Young students at Shomrei Torah in Wayne learned to set a Shabbat table and braid challah using Play Doh. (Courtesy Shomrei Torah)
- Children in the 4s class in the early childhood program at Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley celebrate Shabbat with their moms. (Courtesy TEPV)
- NFTY, the Jewish Reform movement’s teen youth group, came to Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne’s religious school to introduce programs to 8th through 12th graders. (Courtesy TBT)
- Temple Emeth in Teaneck held a One Book One Community Shabbaton as part of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s annual program. This year’s selection is “Let There Be Water” by Seth M Siegel. Shahar Sadeh of Columbia University, center, spoke about Israel’s water policy and its implications for regional security. She is shown with Jocelyn Inglis, left, the director of the Northern New Jersey Jewish National Fund and a member of Temple Emeth, and Rabbi Steven Sirbu. (Barbara Balkin)
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