SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Oheb Shalom Congregation will hold an interfaith concert for peace with music that heals the soul on Sunday, April 2, at 4 p.m. at the South Orange synagogue, 170 Scotland Road. This event will feature guest conductor and narrator Joshua Jacobson, professor of music at Northeastern University in Boston and founding […]
Religious and government leaders take a firm stand following hateful graffiti, JCC bomb threat
MAPLEWOOD / SOUTH ORANGE / WEST ORANGE, NJ — Things have certainly been tense in America in the last few months, with organizations like the ACLU showing a marked increase in anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and racist incidents. Unfortunately, Essex County has also experienced some of this hatred. Residents and officials in Essex County were disheartened during […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Last fall, three synagogues in South Orange — Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel, Beth El Congregation and Congregation Oheb Shalom — set out to help resettle at least one refugee family and give them a new start in South Orange-Maplewood. The first family, refugees from the devastation in Syria, arrived in mid-January. Two […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Oheb Shalom Congregation in South Orange will host an adult learning lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 1, from 7:45 to 9 p.m. titled “From Gush Emunim to Amona: The Story and History of the Settlers Movement.” Moshe Levi, community shaliach to the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest and an expert on the […]
Oheb Shalom visits roots of assisting immigrants
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — As a 10-year-old, Michael Drob did not understand the reasons his family was twice denied refugee status by the U.S. government when attempting to emigrate from Latvia in 1988. He knew only one thing as he waited in limbo with his parents and sister for 10 months in Italy — other […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Oheb Shalom Congregation in South Orange will screen “Stateless” and lead a post-movie discussion on Saturday, Jan. 7, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at at the synagogue, 170 Scotland Road. The documentary “Stateless” tells the story of thousands of Soviet Jews who fled their home country, only to find themselves stranded […]
Synagogue continues legacy of supporting immigrants
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Oheb Shalom Congregation in South Orange celebrated its 25-year anniversary of helping more than 40 emigres from the former Soviet Union resettle in the area with a free musical performance by professional cellist and former emigre Andrey Tchekmazov on Nov. 19. Tchekmazov, one of the children originally settled through Oheb Shalom’s […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Each Thanksgiving, families get together, sit around a crowded table and dig in. There is the usual fare — turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce — and then those extras that make each Thanksgiving meal unique and special. It may be thanks to Grandma’s apple pie or Aunt Helen’s potato kugel. Surrounded […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Oheb Shalom Congregation celebrates the 25-year anniversary of helping more than 40 emigres from the former Soviet Union resettle in this area with a free musical performance by professional cellist and former emigre Andrey Tchekmazov. The free concert will take place on Saturday, Nov. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at Oheb Shalom, […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Zeman School of Oheb Shalom Congregation in South Orange recently hosted a “Who is Your Hero?” program in the sukkah. Community leaders and Oheb members came to speak to the students about what makes a hero and shared stories of their own personal heroes. Pictured from left are Rabbi Mark […]