Letters to the Editor
By MIRIAM SHEFF
May 27, 2025
I would like to put in a good word or two about Daughters of Israel. In June 2022, my dear husband, Nathan Sheff was stricken with a devastating stroke and rushed to the hospital. This stroke was the final stroke among many he had previously had. After rehab, he was transferred to Daughters of ...
I am writing to raise a serious and ongoing safety concern regarding unauthorized vehicle access to the Mayapple Hill section of South Mountain Reservation.Despite signage clearly stating “No Motor Vehicles,” I have personally witnessed cars entering this area on multiple occasions, including four ...
Dear All Concerned:This email concerns the building expansion that Daughters of Israel has to make in order to remain in its current location. I am fully aware that a careful environmental study needs to be done in order to avoid a disastrous landslide as has occurred previously in West ...
Dear Ms. Margulis,I am writing this letter in response to the article in the May 12 TAPinto West Orange, "Daughters of Israel Professional Present Proposed Plans to the West Orange Town Council".I am a 91-year-old resident of the long-term care section of Daughters of Israel. I have been a resident ...
As a 20-year resident of West Orange, I am very invested in our town and the services it offers to all its residents. I listened to the Council meeting on May 6 and the compelling presentation by Daughters of Israel (DOI). As a very busy working mother of two with a loved one at DOI, I'm so very ...
I have had the privilege of residing at Daughters of Israel (DOI) in West Orange for the past eleven years. My family's connection to DOI began in Newark, where my husband's grandmother became a resident in the early 1960s. She attended our wedding in 1967 and was later visited by my young ...
So we voted in new councilpersons. They voted to approve $1.8 million in severance payments. I don't know if this is good or bad. But two of the recently elected councilpersons (from the previous election) claim that they didn't know that they were voting FOR something, when they really wanted to ...
The Planning Board of West Orange has had a busy summer. One application, still in progress, to develop the West Essex Highlands has a large group of objectors and the Planning Board has added several in-person meetings to hear the application. This Wednesday, August 7, another group of ...
Dear Editor, In the early hours of May 14, 2024, a lethal fire broke out in my next-door neighbor’s apartment at the Northfield Townhouses complex on Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange. Sadly, my long-time neighbors perished, but thankfully, my teenage daughter and I were able to escape our ...