3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (130+ words) News12 | New Jersey NYC officials outline security measures ahead of Jewish holidays, 9/11 Officials say they will have an increased police presence at places of worship, major events and other vulnerable areas. Sep 9, 2026, 1:33 PM Labor Day travelers hit the road amid record-high…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (170+ words) With Rosh Hashanah and the Jewish High Holiday season approaching, Bergen County law enforcement officials, community leaders and rabbis gathered in Hackensack last week for the county’s annual High Holiday safety and security briefing. This year’s gathering took on particular…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (212+ words) On knowledge, accountability, and the uncomfortable responsibility of growth There is a version of ignorance that carries its own mercy. Not the …...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (548+ words) Two great black squares that look like cosmic embrasures, where the Twin Towers once rose. The 9/11 Memorial is called “Reflecting Absence." The water, dense and dark, does not flow: it plunges. It falls without respite into the voids, in a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (321+ words) Constellation of creativity Still ablaze from its Coriole Music Festival premiere in May, Belinda Gehlert’s shimmering quartet Stellar traces the life-cycle of a star as a mirror for the phases of human existence. To Be Human, a seven-part song-cycle for…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1604+ words) The redemption song meaning is not a single, tidy statement. It is a convergence of Transatlantic slavery, Pan-African philosophy, Rastafarian faith, and a dying man’s most personal reckoning with his own mortality. “Redemption Song” is a folk ballad played entirely…...