Rabbi David Greenstein

The Hanukkah menorah which symbolizes the holiday is a variation on the synagoguge menorah. Its many forms represent how Jews assimilate.

On Shavuot, Jews study late into the evening, and, traditionally eat dairy foods. Here is a local congregant's recipe for blintzes.

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Montclair civil rights leader James Harris has apologized following criticism of comments viewed by community leaders to be anti-Semitic at the Dec. 30 Fourth Ward meeting. During the course of the meeting, which dealt in part with gentrification and housing affordability in Montclair, Harris, the chair of the New Jersey Association of Black Educators and the

Apples and honey are a Rosh Hashanah tradition. Tikkun Olam, healing the world, is part of Jewish tradition: bees and honey play a part in that.

Local rabbis consider Yom Kippur a cleansing day, not a dreaded one.

Wine is important in the Passover Seder.

Per release by the Montclair Sanctuary Alliance Undocumented immigrants are in an increased state of fear as ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) arrests and deports immigrants who have been long-standing, law-abiding members of our communities...

By DEBORAH ANN TRIPOLDI tripoldi@montclairlocal.news The congregation at Shomrei Emunah is attending church on Shabbat mornings, member Josie Zeman says. The worshipers at the Jewish synagogue at 67 Park St. have made Central Presbyterian Church, also on Park Street, their temporary home for the past five weeks ...

Many participants of different faiths attended the dedication of the Montclair Sanctuary Alliance on Thursday, Dec. 14.

Congragation Shomrei Emunah and Bnai Keshet will celebrate Tashlich together on the first day of Rosh Hashana.