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Aug 17, 2021

Former Jewish Home Assets Benefit Local Jewish Elderly

by Maya Zanger-Nadis
Shalom New Haven Interim Editor


When the Jewish Home for the Aged was sold to a Chicago firm in 2011, the Jewish Home Building Fund Corporation, which was a separate entity, continued to hold the former Jewish Home’s assets, including, many of the Jewish Home's treas…

Aug 17, 2021

Ezra Celebrates Its Community Leaders

by Julie Katz

Ezra Academy feels and acts like a family unit. At once warm and inviting, full of energy and activity, and all working toward the same goal: Ensuring that our children grow up to become educated and contributing members of society. Our values, which i…

Aug 17, 2021

Crown Market is Coming to the JCC

The Crown Market, the first kosher market in Connecticut, celebrated its 80th anniversary last year. Sam Smith, Sam Sowalsky and Meyer Goldfield established the market on Albany Avenue between Magnolia Street and Irving Street in Hartford in 1940.

Over the years, the kosher market adapted t…

Aug 17, 2021

Bagel Run Marks 10th Anniversary

by Abby Epstein

Shalom New Haven Staff Writer

Community, family and fitness. It’s what makes the Bagel Run more than just a race. This year, the Bagel Run’s 10th anniversary, is bound to be special. “It takes everything that is special about the JCC and brings it all together on one …

Aug 16, 2021

Honoring Menachem Begin and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

(February 16, 2021/JNS) 

Thirty years ago, we—a Jewish Democratic alderman and a Baptist pastor in New Haven, Conn.—became friends. What brought us together?

First, we recognized that we shared common beliefs and values. Second, we both felt that in collaborating, we could send a posi…

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