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Living By the Jewish Calendar

by Rabbi Rona Shapiro,

Congregation B’nai Jacob, Woodbridge

 

People often misunderstand the purpose of the holidays. They think they celebrate historical triumphs: they tried to kill us, God saved us, let’s eat. That is true but if that is all you know you are only scratching the su…

A Vision for the Future

by Gus Keach-Longo

President/CEO The Towers

 

By merging Tower One and Tower East into one company, The Towers, a wonderful renovation project has been made possible through HUD funds exclusively for the purpose of physical plant. As a key Jewish community asset in downtown New Haven, o…

Statement Regarding Poway Synagogue Attack

The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven and its Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) are heartbroken and outraged at another hateful and anti-Semitic attack on the Chabad Synagogue of Poway, California, where one woman was killed and three were injured. This mass shooting, which took…

Family Emergency & Preparedness Planning

Source: Secure Community Network (SCN)

 

Emergency preparedness is no longer the sole concern of earthquake prone Californians and those who live in the part of the country known as "Tornado Alley." For Americans, preparedness must now account for man-made disasters as well as natural one…

My Summer Internship in… Israel

by Jake Teplitzky
 

Summer Intern at the National ADL in NYC In the summer of 2017, while I was a student at Miami University, I had the opportunity to participate in an internship program in Israel, as part of Onward Israel Program. I lived in Tel-Aviv and worked in the Interdisciplinary …

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