As rabbis who have spent our professional lives serving the Jewish and wider community, we take exception to the president’s racist attack on four members of Congress and his suggestion that he is defending Jews from their anti-Semitism.
As Jews we are all too familiar with racist, xenoph…
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted on Tuesday to condemn the movement to boycott, divest and sanction Israel.
The bi-partisan House vote on the non-binding resolution was 398-17. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who represents Greater New Haven, voted for the resolution. Click he…
Jewish Community for Refugee Resettlement (JCARR) was established in 2015 by five area synagogues (Congregation Beth-El-Keser Israel (BEKI), Congregation B'nai Jacob, Congregation Mishkan Israel, Congregation Or Shalom, and Temple Emanuel of Greater New Haven) and the Jewish Federation of G…
The JCC Day Camps of Greater New Haven is excited to welcome our new Emissaries in Training (EITs) to this summer camp session. The three EITs, Paz, Nitzan and Tal, are chaperoned by Nir Lustig, a veteran to the program, who came to Connecticut in 2014 and spent his year as an emissary in th…
Two weeks ago, I was honored to represent Foundation for Jewish Camp at the United Nations General Assembly special plenary session entitled “Combating Antisemitism and Other Forms of Racism and Hate: The Challenges of Teaching Tolerance and Respect in the Digital Age.”
Opening the …
