As we have learned during these challenging times, COVID-19 can present differently in different people. Some who get sick from this viral infection often experience a restriction of the respirator...
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by Samatha Fleischman
Join us this fall as Jewish Teen Education (JTE) returns revamped, revitalized and in person! JTE is a teen led and organized educational program for high school students in...
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by Rabbi Danny Moss
At this time of year, someone always asks, “Why does Rosh Hashana come before Yom Kippur?” Shouldn’t self-examination and repentance set the stage for the new year, rat...
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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 chil...
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by Annie Norman-Schiff
Kids, teens, and their families are looking forward to a busy fall at BEKI. This season brings a mix of old and new, as the community returns to favorite traditions that wer...
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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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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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Do you believe in miracles? There are Jews in our community from the former Soviet Union who, from generation to generation, pass down the story of the miracle that happened on Purim 69 years ago....
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With the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan last summer, the crisis of Afghan evacuees cried out for a humanitarian response.
And, as it has in the past, Connecticut’s Jewish community...
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Your glutes are much more than just a cushion to sit on, they are one of the most important muscle groups in the body. Think of it this way, if your body were a car the glutes would be the driver. ...
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Glen Greenberg wanted to help. After all, it was hard for any feeling person to witness the people of Ukraine suffering horribly, their country devastated and in ruin as a result of the brutal atta...
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Everyone loves summer—the warm weather, the barbecues, the sunshine, the longer days.
This year, we usher in the summer with a celebration of the two-day festival of Shavuot, which begins the...
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It was a joyous, gift and music-filled gathering Sunday morning, March 26, as members of Westville’s Beth El-Keser Israel (BEKI) synagogue installed Eric Woodward as their new rabbi.
Woodward...
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Shavuot is a holiday that celebrates the completion of a journey, both in our mytholog- ical history and in our agricultural cycle. Our biblical ancestors have journeyed from Egypt to the wildernes...