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This week in the NJJN:

Everybody’s got issues: Irael, immigration, energy, Iran – in a new series, ‘What’s at stake,” NJJN asks local activists what they want to hear from the presidential candidates.

New voices: The fervently Orthodox are potent political voices in Brooklyn and New York’s Rockland County. Now, with an unusual show of unity in Somerset, members of New Jersey’s yeshiva communities are reaching out to state political leaders. 

The imam stays: Israel said he was Hamas. The U.S. government wanted him deported. Now, after a judge’s ruling rejected those claims, Muslim cleric Mohammed Qatanani of Paterson is thanking the Jewish leaders and public officials who vouched for him. 

Plus: A look at the new TV season with critic Alan Sepinwall

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