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Mar 29, 2019

Bringing Israel to our Religious Schools

The Jewish Agency for Israel, one of the Jewish Federation’s main partner agencies, will help connect local religious schools with schools in Israel for the purpose of long-term cultural exchange and collaboration. In the photo, Merav Shany, Director of School Twinning for the the Jewish A…

Mar 29, 2019

Jewish Camp Impact, a Personal Reflection

by Robyn Teplitzky

Senior Consultant for Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven

Diving into a lake, hiking through a field, bug juice, and singing songs with life-long friends around a campfire are all the things that remind us all of summer camp.  However, I was recently taken back in ti…

Mar 25, 2019

Rocket Strike on Mishmeret

Our Israel office reports that at 5:20 am (Israel time) today, thousands of residents of Israel’s center were awoken as sirens sounded warning of an incoming rocket strike. A powerful J-80 rocket – which has a range of 75 miles – hit a home in a moshav near Kfar Saba called Mishmeret. …

Mar 21, 2019

Congregation B'nai Jacob Presented: "Schmaltz"

On March 20, Erev Purim, B'nai Jacob presented a Shpiel entitled "Schmaltz", a play modeled after the Broadway show "Grease". The story is set in Shushan High School, and the plot follows the ancient Purim story of Mordecai, Esther, and Haman.

As the tale goes, Hey Man plotted with the king…

Mar 15, 2019

Standing Against Violence and Hate

Dear friends,

We cannot allow ourselves to be numb to the tragedies that continue to happen.  Whether it happens in a Charleston, South Carolina black church, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania synagogue, or Christchurch, New Zealand mosques, each instance is a horrific assault on the values we al…

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