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NCJW confronts today’s most urgent social and economic challenges facing women, children, and families. Powered by the Jewish imperative to ensure dignity for all, we impact policy, advocate for justice, and support the community. Your voice has never been more essential and our voices together make a meaningful difference in the world.
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Hidden Heroes of Purim and Passover and Their Messages for Today
Watch this fascinating talk by Rabbi Moshe Rudin, spiritual leader of Adath Shalom synagogue, offered through NCJW, West Morris Section’s Our Jewish World program.

Part 2: Rabbi Biller on ‘A 20th-Century Dreamer Speaks to Us in the 21st’
Here is a link to Rabbi Mark Biller’s second Our Jewish World session about Rav Abraham Isaac Kook, the Chief Rabbi of Palestine before there was a state of Israel, a Jewish legal authority, and a mystic.

Part 1: Rabbi Biller on ‘A 20th-Century Dreamer Speaks to Us in the 21st’
Watch Rabbi Mark Biller’s first Our Jewish World session about Rav Abraham Isaac Kook, the Chief Rabbi of Palestine before there was a state of Israel, a Jewish legal authority, and a mystic.

Rabbi Moshe Rudin to Address: ‘Hidden Heroes of Purim and Passover and Their Messages for Today’
Every spring we tell two stories—two amazing stories. Amazing because no matter what our circumstances and no matter how many times we read them they always have new messages and meanings that become revealed as our lives unfold. Amazing because the heroes of the stories seem, even after all of these years, to be full of surprises.
Cantor Perry Fine: ‘Music, Mystery, and the Art of Jewish Prayer’ Session 3
Click here for a recording of Session 3.
Cantor Perry Fine: ‘Music, Mystery, and the Art of Jewish Prayer’ Session 2
Click here for a recording of Session 2.
Cantor Perry Fine: ‘Music, Mystery, and the Art of Jewish Prayer’
Click here for a recording of Session 1.

Our Gorgeous Chuppah
Our exquisite quilted chuppah, made by our members, was used in two weddings in late spring. Dorothy & Irv Cohen led the chuppah setup and breakdown crew both times—hats off to them!—and Karen Secular and her husband Doron Grosman also helped with chuppah setup at one of the weddings.