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Pride Shabbat in Hamden

Pride Shabbat service will be held at Congregation Mishkan Israel on Friday, June 21 at 6 p.m. This Pride Shabbat will bring an LGBTQ perspective to the Friday evening Shabbat ritual and will celebrate the LGBTQ community.

Congregation Mishkan Israel is a progressive Reform congregation, de…

MA Jewish Cemetery Desecrated

Fifty-niine graves at a Jewish cemetery in Massachusetts were desecrated with anti-Semitic messages such as “Hitler was right,” and “Expel the Jews.” Amir Cohen, the CEO of the New Bedford Jewish Federation, a regional partner of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, shares “…

Federation enhances safety, security and resiliency for our Community

Safety and security of the Jewish community is of primary importance to the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, which empowered a community security committee chaired by Evan Wyner to review protocol and make recommendations to enhance efforts based on national-level data and research. T…

Golda Meir’s Handbag

In 1972, Golda Meir made a visit to New Haven to visit her daughter Sarah Meyerson and her 6 year old grandson. This is the handbag which she carried on her visit to New Haven.

So how the story came about to the Jewish Historical Society is as follows:

Sarah was attending Yale University a…

House Condemns anti-Semitism (March 7, 2019)

Jewish News Syndicate

“Whereas whether from the political right, center or left, bigotry, discrimination, oppression, racism and imputations of dual loyalty threaten American democracy and have no place in American political discourse,” states the resolution.

 It defines anti-Semitism…

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