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May 6, 2020

BEKI Hires Youth and Family Programming Director

Despite the economic consequences of the pandemic, Beth El-Keser Israel (BEKI) is expanding its professional staff. Anne Norman-Schiff, who is completing a Ph.D. in religious studies at Yale University, will be BEKI’s first youth and family programming director. Although she met with BEKI …

May 6, 2020

New England Jewish Academy Names New Head of School

Naty Katz has been chosen as the new Head of School for New England Jewish Academy (NEJA) in West Hartford.

During his 10 years of leading Maimonides School in Brookline, Massachusetts, Katz oversaw a full curriculum review and overhaul, and transformed the process of hiring and developing …

May 6, 2020

JCARR Families Face Challenges Living in a New Culture

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 Immigration Services (IRIS), which provided detailed explanations in the languages JCARR’s immigrant …

May 6, 2020

Helping Jews around the World

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…

May 6, 2020

Shavuot for Families and for the World

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 …

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