Since the COVID-19 outbreak, Jewish Federations overseas partnered with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). They have been working around the clock to serve a growing number of Jews affected by COVID-19 worldwide. Hundreds of JDC essential workers are delivering life-savi…
As we just passed Israel’s Independence Day and continue to learn to celebrate holidays in all new ways, I thought I would bring attention to Shavuot and to one of the less known connections of this holiday—namely its connection to water.
The holiday of Shavuot has many meanings; it is …
In these unusual times of staying home to stay safe, it is easy to distance ourselves from our “usual” community responsibilities. Women’s Philanthropy members have been busy making cloth masks in addition to “Zooming” to meetings, exercise classes, shivas (unfortunately), classroo…
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 abstract. It was important to me to make aliyah and to serve in the army because I felt an obligat…
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 emerging “Israeli” identity, and all of these experiences ignited my desire to return and give bac…
