The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven is partnering with Harold Grinspoon Foundation to create a Greater New Haven’s Harold Grinspoon Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. This opportuni...

With June holidays including Father’s Day, we look back through the Jewish Historical Society’s archives at a fatherly figure in New Haven’s history who was an integral part of improving loca...

Congratulations to Woodbridge’s Aiden and Gideon Reiter. Aiden has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Laos while Gideon has been picked to be part of The Bronfman Fellowsh...

Father’s Day is right around the corner, as is summertime! Here are some great ways from PJ Library to make dad feel special on his day (or any day) while keeping little hands engaged and learning.

Even as their online learning continues in earnest, students took part virtually in a special ceremony for Yom HaZikaron on April 28. On April 29 on Yom Haatzmaut, they joined the Jewish Federation...

Amy Holtz, Chief Development Officer

The Jewish Federation annual campaign is the backbone of our community; it is here in “normal” times and during a crisis such as a global pandemic (COVID-1...

by Jean Silk, JCARR Coordinator

JCARR’s interpreters often facilitate difficult, sensitive and challenging conversations. We spotlight our interpreters here as a token of our gratitude for their...

A Higher Form of Tzedakah (Charity)

By Sarah Lessing, Shalom New Haven Staff Writer

How do we raise money in the midst of a global pandemic and keep folks engaged? These are the struggles we are confronting now while trying to maintain our meaningful and philanthropic presence in ...

Howard Reiter has been selected as a Trustee on the Jewish Federations of North America’s board representing Intermediate Federations.

COVID-19 has shed a light on inequalities; it has increased levels of social and economic distress, domestic violence, child abuse, lack of healthcare, and unemployment. The crisis also presents op...

As rabbis and cantors of the Greater New Haven Jewish community, we cannot be silent at a time of communal crisis. We add our voices to those avowing the principles of our democracy and mourning th...

The complicated reality of the COVID-19 pandemic hit many people by surprise. The order to stay at home came from not only the governor of Connecticut, but also from Integrated Refugee and Immigrat...

Life Lessons Learned in the IDF

I drafted into the IDF nearly a year and a half ago, right before Hanukkah began. I was fresh out of college and full of ideals and motivations that were mainly abs...

Throughout my childhood in Greater New Haven, my Jewish identity was integrally woven into the fabric of my life. When I spent a gap year in Israel, my Jewish identity became linked with my emergin...

The Jewish Historical Soecity spotlights Samuel Campner, a young Jewish figure who made a difference in New Haven politics and in the local Jewish community during the early 1900s as New Haven’s ...

The Jewish Foundation recently launched their new grants for the Jewish Elderly Initiative, which awarded $130,000 in grants for the Jewish elderly

“This is the inaugural year of an annual grant...

The Jewish Cemetery Association of Greater New Haven announces an increase to the purchase price for grave sites in its cemeteries. This is the result of the rising weekly maintenance costs and the...

The opening of the JCC day camps will be followed closely with phased re-openings of the Marcia & Stanley F. Reiter Swimming Pool and the Fitness Center.

There may be a new fitness revolution on the back of this pandemic where there is a focus on healthy living in harmony with the environment.