Tag: Jersey City

  • Mikell’s Plot celebrates 25th anniversary with album, tour

    Mikell’s Plot celebrates 25th anniversary with album, tour

    SAYREVILLE – A Sayreville-based band is celebrating its 25th anniversary with shows across the country. Members of Mikell’s Plot performed their first show of 2022 on Jan. 21 at The Saint in Asbury Park. Their second show was held on Jan. 28 at Bourre in Atlantic City. While the band is beginning the year in…

  • Monroe Hanukkah celebration calls for peace

    Monroe Hanukkah celebration calls for peace

    MONROE – The tragic events in Jersey City more than a week ago were heavy on the minds and hearts as a crowd gathered to witness the lighting of the largest menorah in New Jersey on the first day of the Hanukkah Festival of Lights celebration at State Park on Perrineville Road, corner of Prospect…

  • Jewish community expected to celebrate Hanukkah, each other during lighting of menorah in Monroe

    Jewish community expected to celebrate Hanukkah, each other during lighting of menorah in Monroe

      MONROE – The Chabad of Monroe has been holding a public menorah celebration in Monroe for 18 years, but weeks after the horrific antisemitic shooting in Jersey City, it will be celebrated by a record number of Jewish participants eager to stand together and face down growing anti-Semitism throughout the United States and the…