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ON THE COVER: Amy Lieberman, Ruty Bahar-Keren, and Karen Grossman, new but now good friends, take a break from cooking at the IDF’s Ein HaShlosha base.

Cooking for the soldiers

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Tova Friedman

‘Remember this’

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Eli Beer talks to David Luria in Englewood as they stand by an ambucycle Mr. Luria donated. David Luria is talking to Eli Beer, left, in orange glasses, United Hatzalah’s president and founder. Behind them, in the front row, Gary and Nina Glaser, Englewood’s Mayor Michael Wildes, and the Glasers’ grandson and son, Asher and Andrew Glaser watch. (United Hatzalah)

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Before- and during-the-fire shots of the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center.

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Adrianne Black grew up as a white supremacist and now she can explain that world to us.

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Dr. Willard C. Ashley, Sr.

Shabbat in Wayne

Friday, January 17, wine and cheese at 6:45 p.m., service at 7:30, and an oneg Shabbat afterward

NJ State Senator Loretta Weinberg
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Marking MLK Day in Leonia

Sunday, January 19, Bagels and lox, 10:30 a.m.; program at 11

Anna de la Paz (Alfonso Lozano)

Jewish Spanish heritage in Pearl River

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Honoring MLK in NYC

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Shabbat in Woodcliff Lake

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Moody McCarthy Comedy in Ridgewood

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The Maccabeats

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Teaneck Shabbaton focuses on book

Front row, from left: Joy Vrakas, Chava Finkel, Paola Sayag, Rivkah Lewin, Susan Terman, Elexis Shirit, Whitney Don, and Ruth Reisman. Back row, from left: Alon Avni, David Starr, Sean Pattap, Matt Libien, Rabbi Mordechai Shain, Yosef Chamay, Adrian Osian, Norman Gurman, and Matthew Nieporent

Chabad class graduation

Chanukah in Woodcliff Lake

Rabbi Mendy Chitrik (Courtesy Chabad of Hackensack)

Lecture on Jewish-Muslim relations

Feeding the hungry with Kol Dorot

ON THE COVER: Students and teachers at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County marked October 7, 2023, on October 7, 2024 by putting Israeli flags they’d carried on a commemorative walk near the yellow ribbons and the sign showing their hope for the hostages’ return home. (Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County)

Sending hope and help to the IDF

By Joanne Palmer

Schechter Bergen families support Israel

ON THE COVER: From left, Rabbi Meyer May, Michael Cohen, Debra Tantleff, and Josh Berliner, executive director of the New Jersey-Israel Commission, stand together in Trenton.

Wiesenthal Center fights hate

By Joanne Palmer

Some of the violins as they undergo restoration.

Rescued violins sing of hope

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Wharton Arts offers concert with instruments saved from the Shoah

‘Art saved me’

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Young French-Israeli artist, just out of the IDF, shows his work in Teaneck

ON THE COVER: This Chanukah menorah is by French/Israeli artist Ubab. It’s hanging in the 198 The Plaza Art Gallery in Teaneck.

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