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Walkers gather in Delmar Sept. 27 for the Albany Walk for Pancreatic Cancer Research, which funds research into a disease more common among Jews.

Mimica Tzezana Hyman speaks Sept. 29 at B’nai Sholom in Albany on the survival of Zakynthos’s Jewish community during World War II.

Saratoga Jewish Community Arts opens its season Sept. 23 with a documentary on Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold, screening at Beth Shalom.

Congregation Berith Sholom in Troy opens its religious school year Sept. 27, with class times and a program contact for interested families.

Congregation Gates of Heaven hosts three Jewish poets for an evening of poetry, conversation and reflection on Sept. 24.

Congregation Gates of Heaven hosts an open house and Family Sukkot Celebration on Sept. 25 in Schenectady, with dinner and a family service.

Jewish Family Services of Northeastern New York joins state leaders to warn Holocaust survivors and elderly families about a new reparations scam.

The Schenectady JCC’s fall Well-Being Talk Series for seniors opens Sept. 16 with a cybersecurity clinic and a hot kosher lunch.

Two Clifton Park Chabad CTeen members returned from a summer trip through Holocaust sites in Poland and modern Israel.

An Albany woman was arrested by the FBI on suspicion of plotting to bomb the New York State Capitol and target state senators.