West Orange HS girls hoops ends good season

West Orange HS girls hoops ends good season

WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School girls basketball team, seeded sixth, fell to No. 11 seed and Super Essex Conference–American Division rival East Orange Campus, 41-39, in the first round of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, Section 1, Group 4, tournament on Monday, Feb. 28, at WOHS. Senior […]

East Orange Campus HS’ Azariah Christopher excels at state indoor track Meet of Champions

East Orange Campus HS’ Azariah Christopher excels at state indoor track Meet of Champions

EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange Campus High School senior Azariah Christopher enjoyed a stellar performance at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s state indoor track-and-field Meet of Champions at the John Bennett Indoor Athletic Complex in Toms River on Saturday, March 5. In the preliminaries of the girls 55-meter hurdles, Christopher took fifth […]

Irvington HS wrestlers Lensley Therlonge and Justin Evans-Jenkins end great runs at AC

Irvington HS wrestlers Lensley Therlonge and Justin Evans-Jenkins end great runs at AC

IRVINGTON, NJ — Irvington High School seniors Justin Evans-Jenkins and Lensley Therlonge gave good efforts at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s state individual championships at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on Thursday and Friday, March 3 and 4. The two were the lone IHS representatives in the championships, which consisted of the top […]

Julie Roth to be new rabbi at Shomrei Emunah synagogue

MONTCLAIR, NJ — Congregation Shomrei Emunah, a synagogue in Montclair, has announced that Rabbi Julie Roth will become the next spiritual leader for the synagogue on Aug. 1. Roth comes to Shomrei from Princeton Hillel where she has been the executive director and Jewish chaplain for 17 years. She succeeds Rabbi David Greenstein, who is […]

Redevelopment project to create affordable housing, health care clinic

Redevelopment project to create affordable housing, health care clinic

NEWARK, NJ — L+M Development Partners, Type A Projects and MSquared announced March 3 the closing on $42 million in financing for the development of 78 affordable rental apartments that will serve low- and moderate-income households in the Fairmount neighborhood of Newark in partnership with University Hospital. The project, developed under the New Jersey Housing […]

Free Zoom program on ‘Minutemen versus Newark’s Nazis’

NEWARK, NJ — Warren Grover, of Short Hills, author of “Nazis in Newark,” will offer a presentation titled “Minutemen versus Newark’s Nazis,” together with Steve Arnold, whose father, Nat Arno, was a leader of the Newark Minutemen, an anti-Nazi organization of Jews in the 1930s. The program, sponsored by National Council of Jewish Women, West […]

SUEZ North America donates $100,000 to advance research at Nutley center

SUEZ North America donates $100,000 to advance research at Nutley center

NUTLEY, NJ — Hackensack Meridian Health Foundation announced the receipt of a gift of $100,000 from SUEZ North America to support clinical research at Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation in Nutley.  “We thank our friends and partners at SUEZ North America for their continued generosity, especially as we continue to battle against COVID-19,’’ […]

SOMA Community Coalition on Race to celebrate its 25th anniversary

SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Join the South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race as it celebrates the organization’s 25th anniversary and reflects on its efforts to create equity and preserve racial integration. The virtual event, “The Pursuit of Racial Equity & Integration: A 25-Year Journey in Maplewood and South-Orange,” will be held Tuesday, March […]