This past May, Ezra Academy and Congregation B'nai Jacob celebrated the installation of their new "Little Free PJ Library," a collaborative project between the two organizations and PJ Library of G...
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When Ina Silverman announced her retirement as principal of Beth El-Keser IsraeI’s (BEKI) religious school after more than 20 years of service, the synagogue’s newly formed Education Visioning ...
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In the last issue of Shalom New Haven (March/April 2022), we introduced to the community Rabbi Joshua Pernick — the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) director and rabbi in residence for t...
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It had been almost three years since they last traveled to Israel, but on May 19 UConn Hillel was back at it, leading a 10-day exciting and educational Birthright Israel trip to the Jewish state fo...
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Lots of things. Which is why young parents are signing up their little ones in record numbers. To be specific, enrollment at the JCC’s Beverly Levy Early Learning Center is up close to 50 percent...
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Greater New Haven Jewish women have a wonderful opportunity to become lifelong philanthropists through the Women of Vision Society -- a permanent, restricted endowment fund dedicated to helping and...
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The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven has announced the recipients of the inaugural Impact Grant Initiative allocation.
A direct result of the community strategic planning process, the new ...
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The artwork of Suzanne Neusner and Naomi Safran-Hon are on exhibit at Beth El-Keser Israel (BEKI) now through June 4.
Artists Suzanne Neusner’s Fiber Arts in the upstairs gallery space and Naomi...
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AFULA, Israel –Betsy Winnick Melamed, a fourth-generation Connecticut native, has joined the leadership team at Emek Medical Center (EMC) as part of its drive to become the premier care facility ...
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HEAR FROM ROBYN TEPLITZKY ON WHY SHE "LIONS" "I believe the most important mission of the Jewish Federation is about being a part of the collective world-wide Jewish community. I have personally de...
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The reviews are in! And we’re proud to report that this year’s Beckerman Cultural Arts Series — which opened in September 2021 and wrapped up in June 2022 — was a hit! And we have so many p...
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Recently, the Jewish Community Alliance for Refugee Resettlement (JCARR) enlisted the aid of religious school students at Temple Emanuel in Orange (grades 4-7) and Congregation Mishkan Israel in Ha...
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When I was a kid growing up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, I loved baseball. I loved everything about it from the family with three boys next door whose dad would throw us countless pop flies and grou...
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“What happened to me,” Philip Lazowski, one of the last remaining survivors who can still tell the tale, “is a lesson on what could still happen.”
Lazowski, 91, survived the Holocaust. He...
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As I sit to write this column, we are unfortunately still witnessing terrible atrocities throughout Ukraine.
I had the privilege of representing our community on a mission to Poland, where Amy H...
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By Yelena Gerovich New American Acculturation Program Coordinator
Did you know that water skiing was invented 100 years ago by a man named Ralph Samuelson who had a logical, yet out-of-the-box, tho...
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Over the course of the last year, Camp Laurelwood and PJ Library, powered by the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, partnered to connect Shoreline Jewish families with one another and bring th...
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The pieces that will make up the March March 9-16, 2023 “Choose Your Own Adventure” community trip to Israel are falling into place…and with it the excitement is growing, as more and more par...
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By Rabbi James Greene
TISHAH B’AV: A TIME FOR REMEMBRANCE
Over the summer, we commemorate one of the most tragic days in the Jewish calendar–Tishah B’av (the ninth day of the month of Av), wh...
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By Alyssa Seidman Marketing Content Writer, Hearst Connecticut Media Group
Any retiring senior would prefer to pocket their life’s savings, but sometimes switching one’s living situation can co...