SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Pursuit of Harmony helped create beautiful music and build bridges of understanding over the weekend of Dec. 15 at Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel, the Reform synagogue in South Orange. The musical duo of Jewish-American singer and songwriter Michael Ochs and award-winning Palestinian peace activist and songwriter Alaa Alshaham performed at the […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Oheb Shalom Congregation will host a Winter KinderConcert on Sunday, Jan. 7, at 3 p.m. featuring oboist Lynne Cohen and flutist Jill Sokol. Admission is charged. Oheb Shalom is located at 170 Scotland Road in South Orange. Visit www.OhebShalom.org for details.
MILLBURN, NJ — Congregation B’nai Israel, 160 Millburn Ave. in Millburn, will hold two “Lunch & Learn” sessions in November; lunch begins at 12:30 p.m. and the program begins at 1 p.m. On Thursday, Dec. 14, hear the dynamic cantorial duo of B’nai Israel’s Lorna Wallach and Cantor Erica Lippitz of Oheb Shalom in South […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Oheb Shalom Congregation in South Orange will host an educational event called “Jews Had Slaves? Making Sense of Morally Challenging Passages in the Bible” on Sunday, Nov. 5, from 10 a.m. to noon. This lesson will be led by Jewish Theological Seminary professor Benjamin Sommer. There is no charge to attend. […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Rent Party Family Picnic was never originally planned to be an annual event — let alone one that has grown larger and larger each year.. “When we held our first show three years ago, it was simply a celebration of Rent Party’s fifth anniversary,” Rent Party co-founder Chris Dickson said in a […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Members of the South Orange-Maplewood community gathered June 19 at The Woodland in Maplewood for an interfaith Iftar, which is the festive communal meal that breaks the daily fast during Ramadan. The event was co-sponsored by the SOMA Refugee Resettlement Project and U.S. Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad of Maplewood. From left are […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel in South Orange recently recognized three members at its annual congregational meeting in May. The 2017 TSTI Volunteer Service awards, given by board President Sue Wishnow of Short Hills, went to Joel Scharf of Monroe Township, Sheryl Harpel of Short Hills and Alan Levine of South Orange. “Each […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Oheb Shalom Congregation will present “Leadership as a Jewish Journey,” with Leslie Dannin Rosenthal, on Wednesday, May 3, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at 170 Scotland Road in South Orange. Enjoy lunch and then hear from Rosenthal, the current president of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, about her Jewish journey, […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The 40th annual South Orange-Maplewood Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance Service will take place Sunday, April 23, at the Morrow Memorial Methodist Church, 600 Ridgewood Road in Maplewood. The event at the church begins at 3 p.m., though it is preceded by a March of Remembrance at 2 p.m., which assembles at Ricalton Square […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The uniting power of music from multiple religious backgrounds will be felt as the Oheb Shalom Congregation hosts an interfaith concert, “Wild Peace: Suddenly … Like Wildflowers,” on Sunday, April 2, at 4 p.m. at 170 Scotland Road in South Orange. The April event is the second concert sponsored by the […]