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Tuvia returns to his roots

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Max, David, Michelle, and Brooke Dryerman (GoFundMe photo)

‘Nobody has any words’

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Participants of the New Member Institute gather for a group portrait in 2023. The retreat was held on the top of Aspen Mountain.

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Russell Berrie and Wexner will train new cohorts of Jewish community activists

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Historian Jonathan Gribetz will discuss the PLO’s surprising Research Center

This poster shows some of the vibrant young people Hamas murdered on October 7.

‘And yet we dance’

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‘None of your business!’

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Have shofar — will travel

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Pinhas Friedenberg of Teaneck organizes personal shofar services for the homebound

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Max L. Kleinman

Israel’s great virtue is also its liability

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Joseph C. Kaplan

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Hillary Goldberg

Silence is not an option

The imperative to confront antisemitism

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Dr. Alan Kadish

University leaders must root out hate

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D'var Torah

Parshat Ki Tavo: Why not?

By Rabbi Neal Borovitz

Back to shul in Orangeburg

Shabbat in Teaneck

Rockland race honors Holocaust victims

‘Jeanne Hebuterne’ by Modigliani
(Courtesy Temple Emeth)

Talking about Modigliani

Sunday, September 22, 10 a.m.

Survivor talks in Fair Lawn

Speaking up against hate

High Holy Day podcast program

Monday, September 23, noon

Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter (Courtesy YU)

Online book talk

Monday, September 23, 8 p.m.

Protecting Jewish college students

Tuesday, September 24, 6:30 p.m.

Palestine Liberation Organization

Tuesday, September 24, 7:30 p.m.

Talking about Costco in Tenafly

Women’s challah bake

Selichot in Teaneck

Selichot in Pearl River

Jewish art online

Jazz in Park Ridge

Passaic Torah Institute expanding in the new year

“Alice” by Maxine Hess (Photos courtesy of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), Inc.)

RVCC slates webinar with artists of ‘Bearing Witness’ exhibition

Alyza Lewin Esq., left, Dov Ben-Shimon, Russel G. Pearce, and Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe

Jewish law symposium this week

Meet Daniel Herz

By Joanne Palmer

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

ON THE COVER: Rachel Goldberg-Polin speaks at her son Hersh’s funeral in Jerusalem on September 2. (Gil Cohen-Magen/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Rachel Goldberg-Polin at son Hersh’s funeral: ‘Finally, you’re free’

By Philissa Cramer

“I will love you and I will miss you every single day for the rest of my life … I just have to teach myself to feel you in a new way.”

A covered courtyard at Hakhel in Jerusalem was filled with mourners the day after Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose family are prominent members, was found to have been killed in Gaza. Hundreds of other people crowded outside the gates. (Deborah Danan)

At the Jerusalem synagogue where Hersh danced, now grief and anger reign

By Deborah Danan

An image of Hersh Goldberg-Polin is onscreen before the Israeli Premier League match between Hapoel Hadera and Hapoel Jerusalem in Jerusalem on August 31. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Our collective, endless grief is an expression of love, and our most powerful weapon

By Dr. Mijal Bitton

At funeral, Israeli president asks for forgiveness from Goldberg-Polin family

By Philissa Cramer

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff is at a prayer vigil to honor the six Israeli hostages killed in Gaza and those who remain in Hamas captivity at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington on September 3. (Valerie Plesch for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

‘I’m gutted,’ Doug Emhoff says

By Ron Kampeas

Attorney General Merrick Garland has filed criminal charges against Hamas. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

U.S. Justice Department files criminal charges against Hamas

By Ron Kampeas

Israelis protest demanding a ceasefire and a deal to release hostages outside the home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on August 31. (Saeed Qaq/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel is reeling from an unbearable tragedy. But does it change anything?

By Ron Kampeas

Joe Biden: I am devastated and outraged by murder of American-Israeli Goldberg-Polin

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ON THE COVER: In a promotional photograph, Dr. Victor Parsonnet displays equipment he uses when he performs a vascular graft. (Julie Parsonnet)

Happy birthday, Dr. Parsonnet

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Local surgeon, musician, philanthropist turns 100

ON THE COVER: Campers run with an Israeli flag on Yom Yisrael at Camp Nesher.

A summer of healing

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Local Jewish camp leaders look back at a challenging, emotional, joyful season

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