Religion

On May 21 a letter was sent to Gov. Phil Murphy from a law firm representing 67 churches and their pastors and congregants arguing the right to assemble and worship. 

Like the rest of its residents, Montclair's Muslim community is adjusting to social distancing, adapting how they celebrate things like Ramadan.

Despite many metropolitan area cancellations of Purim Carnivals, and two cancelled locally, in Caldwell and in the Oranges, it is a happy holiday, celebrated this year on Monday night, March 9th, through Tuesday, March 10, a story of intrigue, with a king, queen, and Haman, the evil prime minister, recounting the Jewish people's survival in ancient Persia from Haman’s plot “to destroy, kill and an

  Tierney's Tavern is rocking on Sunday, March 8, as supporters gather in Montclair to get whistles wet and celebrate Montclair's Michael Byrne, this year's Grand Marshall of the parade along Broad Street. Byrne steps down as the Chairman after eight years of work, an anything-but-routine series of behind-the-scenes efforts across the county to create good-will and renewed interest, breathing new

The shortest day of the year is recognized with rituals, readings and meditation for the Winter Solstice ceremony of the UUCM Sacred Wheel CUUPS (Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans), in the Rotunda of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair, Sunday, Dec...

The Easter Bunny arrives at the Watchung Plaza BID's annual Easter Egg Hunt after the morning shower to the delight of the crowd of children, scrambling for the prizes and treats, Saturday, April 20.

The kids and their parents make hamantaschen at the workshop in Chocolate Works Sunday afternoon, March 3, sponsored by Chabad Montclair. They ready for the Jewish holiday of Purim with the signature Purim pastry, hamantaschen. The pastry, filled with all sorts of sweets, is shaped into the tricorn hat of the evil Persian Prime Minister Haman...