Montclair Sanctuary Alliance has formed to protect undocumented immigrants. Its physical space will be at Bnai Keshet.
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Culture in brief: Abby Stein, transgendered women, to speak at Montclair’s Bnai Keshet
Abby Stein will speak about her journey from the Hasidic rabbinate to her life as a trans-woman at Bnai Keshet’s first Kaplan Minyan of the New Year on Saturday morning, […]
Tashlich is symbolic, and real: Montclair’s synagogues celebrate together
Congragation Shomrei Emunah and Bnai Keshet will celebrate Tashlich together on the first day of Rosh Hashana.
Montclair businesses, groups, houses of worship start Harvey relief projects
By ERIN ROLL and LINDA MOSS roll@montclairlocal.news moss@montclairlocal.news Montclair has mobilized to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey, with fundraising and relief efforts launched by local groups, houses of worship, […]
Bnai Keshet to hold talk and vigil
Bnai Keshet is holding two events honoring social justice in the coming week. On Saturday morning, June 3, Steve Ellmann will speak about South Africa’s late Chief Justice, Arthur Chaskalson, […]
Tikkun for Erev Shavuot to be held at Temple Ner Tamid
Temple Ner Tamid will host this year’s Tikkun for Erev Shavuot on Tuesday evening, May 30. For more than 20 years, four synagogues — Bnai Keshet and Shomrei Emunah in […]
Ron Kaplan, author of book about Hank Greenberg, to speak
Ron Kaplan, author of “Hank Greenberg in 1938: Hatred and Home Runs in the Shadow of War,” will speak about Greenberg at Bnai Keshet’s Kaplan Minyan on Saturday morning, May […]
Eyes right: Montclair Public Library’s Open Book/Open Mind presents ‘Watched’
‘Watched’ Presented by the Montclair Public Library and the MPL Foundation Open Book/Open Mind Performed by Theatre 167 Friday, May 19, 7-9 p.m. Montclair High School Little Theatre 141 Park […]
Praying for a Meeting
Montclair Jews gather outside Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen’s Morristown office this past Saturday night, to celebrate Havdalah, the closing of Shabbat, during Passover. Bnai Keshet’s Rabbi Elliot Tepperman holds a guitar. […]
Mixed-faith group helps build a Habitat for Humanity house
Members of Bnai Keshet, First Congregational Church and Baitful Wahid Mosque will gather on Thursday, April 13, to contribute their labor to Habitat for Humanity and build a house in Paterson. Participants […]
Montclair’s Bnai Keshet holds Community Seder
By GWEN OREL orel@montclairlocal.news This year’s Community Seder at Bnai Keshet will feature a theme of immigration. It’s particularly timely, with the president’s Muslim bans being fought in the courts. […]
Montclair-based Syria Supper Club links refugees, residents
By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news Last Sunday 25 people came to a Syria Supper Club dinner in Montclair, partaking of dishes such as hummus, tabouli, rice with lentils and coconut cake, […]
Montclair Synagogue Hosts Live Israeli Radio Show – Roomies: Stories of Living Together
A combination of radio-style storytelling, live collage animation, music, singing, video, and other multimedia.