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These 13 New Jersey Churches Became Something Surprisingly Different

A bell tower bedroom in Hoboken. A technology office beneath stained glass in Newark. A wooden church in Morris County where the quiet activity now involves turning pages. Across New Jersey, buildings designed for Sunday services have picked up some wonderfully unexpected weekday jobs. Their steeples, pointed windows, and grand...

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New Jersey’s Only Surviving Building From A Former King’s Estate Is Now A Fascinating History Museum

The restrooms at this little museum teach history. One is named for the Delaware River, and the other for Crosswicks Creek. Yep, even a bathroom break comes with a lesson. The building itself is the real headliner, though. It’s a modest gardener’s house, and it’s the only original structure left from an estate owned by a former king.

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'The Ten Commandments,' 70 years old, has this North Jersey connection

Pompton Lakes is not the Red Sea. And North Jersey is not North Africa — where Cecil B. DeMille and his cast of thousands restaged the exodus from Egypt, on location, in his supreme blockbuster, "The Ten Commandments." Yet the fingerprints of New Jersey are all over the 1956 movie classic, which celebrates its 70th anniversary on Nov. 8. "The Ten Commandments" is one of the few old Hollywood movies that still command a following today: On ABC it is still a prime-time holiday tradition during the Passover season. It was in the pews of the original Christ Episcopal Church that DeMille would have first heard the story of Moses, the Pharaoh of Egypt, the enslaved children of Israel, the parting of the Red Sea, and the giving of The Law. Possibly even from the mouth of his own father, Henry de Mille — a lay preacher there. "I can remember going Sunday after Sunday to church with my father and listening to him preach," DeMille said in one interview. Book versus movie His father, of course, based his sermons in the Bible. But the Bible left out certain things — which DeMille, in his $13 million epic (about $157

Pompton Lakes, NJ · 2d

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Edison's Fifth Diwali Festival Expected to Draw More Than 20,000, With Drone Show and Fireworks Planned

Edison's fifth annual Diwali Festival of Lights was scheduled for Saturday from 2 to 9 p.m. at Papaianni Park, 100 Municipal Blvd., with free music, dance, food and craft vendors, and a planned post-sundown drone and fireworks show. Organizers planned for the celebration to draw the kind of crowd that has made it one of the township's signature annual gatherings.

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You Could Get Lost For Hours In These 9 Dreamy New Jersey Secondhand Bookstores

Ready to explore dreamy secondhand bookstores in New Jersey that feel like pure magic?. These 9 bookstores offer incredible used book finds and a one-of-a-kind browsing experience!. 1. Montclair Book Center (Montclair) The green-striped awning at Montclair Book Center is the kind of thing that makes you slow down your...

New Jersey · 5d

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NJ home to two of America’s best golf courses, according to Golfweek

Ready to tee off? Golfweek's Best, the popular golf magazine, released its annual list of the top par-3, short and non-traditional private golf courses for 2026. The rankings are determined by a panel of hundreds of course raters who evaluate layouts on a 10-point scale based on how much they enjoyed the design and the environment. Out of the top 25 classic golf courses on the list, the wining location sits in the Garden State. Pine Valley in New Jersey has reclaimed the No. 1 spot and Hamilton Farms claimed the No. 5 spot. Below are results from Golfweek. Pine Valley (Short Course) 2025 ranking: 1 Average rating: 8.79 Location: Pine Valley, NJ Designer(s): Tom Fazio Year opened: 1992 Details: 10 holes, 2,006 yards, par 31 Hamilton Farms (Hickory) 2025 ranking: 5 Average rating: 7.70 Location: Far Hills, NJ Designer(s): Michael Hurdzan, Dana Fry Year opened: 1998 Details: 18 holes, 3080 yards, par 54 Golfweek's top 10 private par-3 and short golf courses in US Classic courses are distinguished from modern ones by their natural designs, minimal earth scraping and contoured greens. Pine Valley (Short Course); Pine Valley, NJ Philadelphia Cricket Club (St. Martins); Philadelphia, PA Augusta National Golf Club

New Jersey · 1d

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Message From the Director: Honoring Our Veterans at the Library

This Wednesday is Veterans Day, a time for us to commemorate those who have answered the call of duty to serve our country in the United States Armed Forces. Without their bravery and sacrifice, much of the freedom, security, and privilege we often take for granted would not be possible. So as part of our efforts to honor our veterans, we’ll be hosting “The Great War: America and New Jersey’s Role”, tomorrow night starting at 7pm.

New Jersey · 22h

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N.J. football playoff photos: Pinelands at Oakcrest, NJSIAA SJG3 semifinal, Nov. 7, 2026

Getting deeper into the N.J. football playoffs

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Author Jean Chatzky On How To Create A “Forever Paycheck”

Jim Monaghan's guest this week on Jersey Magazine is New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jean Chatzky, author of the new book Forever Paycheck. Saving for retirement is only half the equation — how to turn those savings into income without running out of money is the challenge many Americans face.

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Grace Kelly at 97: Her Philadelphia Story, From East Falls to Monaco

Over Christmas 1955, Prince Rainier III of Monaco asked Grace Kelly to marry him inside a brick Colonial on Henry Avenue in East Falls. It was the house she grew up in, where a linen closet door still carried marks recording her height as a girl. By then, Kelly was...

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Comcast Co-Founder and Cable Television Hall of Famer Dead at 93

Julian Brodsky, who co-founded Comcast more than six decades ago, has died at age 93. The cable company announced today that he died on Nov. 5. Variety reported the news. Julian Brodsky Was a "Mentor and a Friend" Comcast stated that Brodsky was surrounded by his family at the time...

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Why so many historic Philadelphia street lamps are shaped like the letter 'P'

Hundreds of historic lampposts in neighborhoods like Society Hill and Old City curve into an arch resembling a capital "P," carrying fixtures known as "Franklin lights." The design traces back to the 1750s, when Benjamin Franklin set out to improve fragile, soot-covered round glass globes imported from London. Franklin’s four-pane...

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Diwali Celebrations held at BAPS Swaminarayan Aksharham

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Philadelphia Shuts Down the Parkway Sunday for Veterans Day Parade, Festival

Philadelphia rolls out its Veterans Day Parade and Festival this Sunday, Nov. 8, with the parade stepping off at noon on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and a festival following at Eakins Oval. The event is billed as a free, family-friendly celebration honoring the men and women who have served the country, and it comes with a long list of street closures and transit detours that will reshape the area around the Parkway for most of the day.

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‘Rocky’: 7 Iconic Philadelphia Locations From the Film Franchise

From the museum steps to Rocky's apartment.

Philadelphia, PA · 18h

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Philly's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the nation's first, was born out of a department store's promotion

Ellis Gimbel, one of the founders of the former Gimbels Department Store, decided to think outside the box when gearing up for the holidays in 1920, sensing growing competition in Philadelphia's retail space. Instead of confining decorations to her Center City store, Gimbel had 50 employees dress in costumes and...

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Academy museum’s real deficit

When Philadelphia officials argue about what a museum costs the public, a single number can travel farther than the paperwork behind it. At a City Council hearing, speakers cited a $4.4 million shortfall for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Documents later placed the 2025 gap at $960,000. That distance between a hearing figure and a ledger figure is the Academy museum deficit in its most political form: not only red ink, but a fight over which red ink the city is being asked to believe.

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Christmas gets creepy at Fort Mifflin with Krampusnacht, 50-plus vendors and wrestling Santa

Santa Claus will be wrestling, fire performers will be lighting up the night, and Christmas shopping will take a decidedly darker turn at Fort Mifflin this December. The historic Philadelphia fort will host its second annual Krampusnacht on Saturday, Dec. 5, bringing together gothic holiday traditions, punk-inspired entertainment and an alternative Christmas market with more than 50 vendors.