ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Sheriff Armando Fontoura advised motorists in a recent press release that the Essex County Sheriff’s Office will join with municipal police from around New Jersey in cracking down on unbuckled motorists and passengers as part of the national “Click it or Ticket” campaign. Beginning May 21 and running through June 3, […]
The Men of Essex, Inc. has selected track phenom Reanda Richards of West Essex Regional High School to be the recipient of the 2018 “Essex Award.” The 60th Anniversary Essex Awards dinner banquet was held on Wednesday, May 16, at Cedar Hill Golf & Country Club in Livingston. Richards broke a 36-year-old meet record in […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Registration is now open for June computer classes at the Linda & Rudy Slucker NCJW/Essex Center for Women. Intro to Word will have six classes on Mondays and Wednesdays, beginning June 4, from 9 to 11 a.m.; PowerPoint is scheduled to run on four consecutive Tuesday mornings, beginning June 5, from 9 […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Families are invited to a special One Family Shabbat service on Friday, May 18, at Temple B’nai Abraham, 300 East Northfield Road, Livingston. This service will be geared for children 5 and older. Participants will share in songs, prayers and stories. A fun pizza dinner will be served at 6 p.m. and […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — On Thursday, May 17, at 11:30 a.m., the Temple B’nai Abraham Congregational Learning program continues its monthly Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Faith Joy Dantowitz at the temple, 300 East Northfield Road, Livingston. TBA’s Lunch & Learn explores “Women of the Bible: Supporters, Victims, Leaders, Warriors, Rabble Rousers!” This is the last […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange Performing Arts Center’s Herb & Milly Iris Gallery, at 1 SOPAC Way, will host its annual Inspired Minds: Young Artist Exhibition, featuring 50 of the most talented Essex County high school artists, from May 17 through Aug. 17. This year’s exhibition, opening with a special reception on Thursday, […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Four years after 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin was killed at a stoplight in West Orange while on his way home to Livingston, his killer, Ali Muhammad Brown, was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole by Superior Court Judge Ronald Wigler in Newark on May 1. In March, while […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Rosh Hodesh is the Hebrew term for the beginning of the month on the Jewish calendar, which has evolved into a women’s holiday. Temple B’nai Abraham’s Sisterhood, The Women’s Connection, joins together, led by Rabbi Faith Joy Dantowitz, a few times a year to welcome the new month with conversation, learning, spiritual […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — “Open Sesame” to the musical magic of the Livingston Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, May 12, at 7:30 p.m., at the Livingston High School Auditorium, 30 Robert Harp Drive. Master storyteller and conductor Anthony LaGruth leads the orchestra and audience from Cherubini’s playful “Ali Baba Overture” through Rimsky-Korsakov’s dazzling “Scheherazade.” Highlights of this […]
LIVINGSTON, NJ — TBA’s Congregational Learning offers classes in “History Through Text” with Rabbi Clifford Kulwin throughout the year at Temple B’nai Abraham, 300 East Northfield Road, Livingston. The topic this year is “The Jewish Religion.” Taught in blocks of several weeks, each class will also be a stand-alone unit so that an inability to […]