In April, members of our local Jewish Teen Education (JTE) group participated in the March of the Living, where they journeyed to Poland to explore the remnants of the Holocaust, visit concentration camp sites and then traveled to Israel for Israeli Independence Day. Here, two students discuss what they learned and how this trip changed them.

The Tillie L. and Albert B. Friedman Fund for Jewish Education in honor of Sophia, Aaron and Benjamin Bruce: Harriet Friedman‘s primary motivation behind setting up this fund was to honor her parents “in a most meaningful way.”

The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven and the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven recently visited UConn Hillel House, meeting with students and learning more about our Federation dollars at work in this community.

In May, the Connecticut General Assembly passed Senate Bill 452, which adds Holocaust and genocide education and awareness to the required courses of study for public schools. The bill also requires all local and regional boards of education to include this topic in their social studies curriculum beginning in the 2018-19 school year.

Our Israel office has prepared this short update on the phenomenon of “kite arson” from Gaza. This new tactic emerged two months ago, and is becoming an increasingly serious problem for Israel, even as responses to the problem are evolving.

The walkout, included a recitation of the students’ names. JHSC Junior, Celia Rosen, noted, “as I stood outside my school on March 14, I was not just protesting a country that continues to tune out the pleas of its people to reform, the cries of families who have lost loved ones far too soon; I was there standing with a Jewish community mourning the loss of their own.”

Bring on the (kosher) bug juice and light the Havdalah campfire! The Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven offers grants and scholarships through their One Happy Camper Program (OHC).

The Barry Vine Send-A-Kid to Camp Scholarship Fund needs you. Please donate and help us help kids enjoy summer camp at the JCC.

Our building means so much to so many. Here, our community
leaders share what this building represents to them. They all
believe that this building needs to be maintained, improved and
cherished for generations to come. Become part of this effort.
Building community. Building strength. Building momentum and
building a future. Your gift to the Building Campaign will do all of
these things.

It comes as no surprise to learn that the Sklars’ connections to community, giving back and Jewish values have deep roots. “Philanthropy has always been important to us,” he shares. “My father was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust (he left before the war as his mother recognized the growing anti-Semitism in Europe). He always stressed the importance of giving as long as one had something...