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October 11, 2026

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Climbing Kilimanjaro

By Stefanie Diamond

Local photographer joins Accessibility Accelerator trek

About the cover: Stefanie Diamond’s photograph shows the sun over Mount Kilimanjaro as she treks with Accessibility Accelerator. (Stefanie Diamond)

Young parents Rebecca and Marvin, with their kids, Jacob and Liora, visit with Merrill and Andy as the sukkah goes from family to family.

The great sukkah heist

By Merrill Silver

When a hut moves on, it takes history with it

Lenny Mandel dances with an illuminated Torah as a chuppah is held overhead.(Llenny Mandel)

Dancing because we remember

By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel

What happens when Simchat Torah and your birthday both are October 7?

This photo is on the cover of the federation’s toolkit for parents. (JFNNJ)

You’ve got to be taught to hate

By Joanne Palmer

JFNNJ offers toolkit to help parents whose kids face antisemitism at school

From left: Actors Jill Stern, Steven Skybell, Danny Kornfeld, and Awesta Zarif, director Colton Pometta, and playwright David Zax (Aftermath)

How brave are you?

By Curt Schleier

‘Aftermath’ takes a deep dive on what happens after trauma

Daniella Rabbani sings in the subway in “Ketzele Baroyges.” (Daniella Rabbani)

The inventive ‘Klezmerette’

By Joanne Palmer

Daniella Rabbani remakes old music with pride and joy

“Untitled 2.” A lumen print created with soil collected near a mass killing site in Mszana Dolna, Poland. 29.7 x 21 cm, 2023. (All photos courtesy of Mark Isaac and Gabriela Bulisova)

‘The Landscape of Our Memory’

By Deb Breslow

Artist duo uses many media to memorialize Holocaust victims

Shabbat in Leonia

Shabbat in Teaneck

Charity walk in Westwood

Charity walk in Paramus

Jewish life campus fair

Music and healing after October 7

Pet blessings

Teaneck Day

Free ice cream

Jewish Home celebration

Pianist in Teaneck

Talking about Israel and the Jewish world

Music in West Orange

Games in Teaneck

Jewish humor online

Bruce Feiler, left, and Rabbi Angela Buchdahl

Authors talk on webinar

Zoom memoir workshop

Talking about Israeli elections online

Wayne shul adds accessibility initiative

Ruth Smith and Beth Chananie of the JCC Paramus/CBT with JFCS Chief Development Officer Stephanie Karlo

Shuls collect for the hungry

Teaneck Day returns with the ultimate block party

Editorial

Joanne Palmer

The new year and its blessings

Column

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Francesca Albanese becomes the laughingstock of the world

Opinion

Stephen M. Flatow

The Israelis who didn’t wait to be told what to do

Opinion

Rosanne Skopp

Always on time

Opinion

Stephanie Z. Bonder

I’m not surprised

Opinion

Rabbi Alan Silverstein

Defending the range of meanings of the word Zionism

Opinion

Yahli Cop, Gavin Fromberg, Eli Kosiborod, Nathan Kosiborod and Eitan Rosenberg

For Jewish students, college is not just an academic decision.

It is a decision about community.

Banji Ganchrow

Off we go, Part I

Great news! The sad news about Sunkist Fruit Gems now has a happy ending. Apparently, a lot of folks were upset, protests were held, letters were written, and there were social media campaigns a plenty. Fruit Gems aren’t going anywhere. It’s a Sukkot miracle!...Continue Reading

Playing together

By Joanne Palmer

Israel’s Polyphony visits New Jersey

About the cover: Polyphony’s Galilee Chamber Orchestra plays in Philadelphia last year. (Polyphony Foundation)

Transition at Sinai Schools

By Joanne Palmer

Arielle Greenbaum Saposh talks about her new job and the school’s consistent values

Andrew Kent talks about life

By Joanne Palmer

He’s the new chair of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey

Who will live and who will die

By Joanne Palmer

A look back at September 11 and forward to Rosh Hashanah

UAF 175 crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 [TheMachineStops
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