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Yale Honors Silk for Human Rights Advocacy

Professor James J. Silk, center, with his son Jonah, wife Jean, and daughter Kira. Silk, 70, of New Haven, was honored recently as the first Binger Clinical Professor of Human Rights at Yale Law School, where he teaches at the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. He is als…

JCPA Trip Brings Levys New Understanding of Israel

By Arthur & Betty Levy

Special for Shalom New Haven

In December, we went on a five-day mission to Israel with the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA). The JCPA is the “umbrella” organization for more than 125 JCRCs nationwide as well as several other Federation organizations.

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Jewish Foundation Offers Scholarship Opportunities

COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS

All scholarships are for high school seniors from Jewish households. All applications must be completed online by May 1. All applications are confidential and anonymously reviewed. Go to jewishnewhaven.org/ scholarships for more information.

Mary Taylor Friedler Memor…

CMI Hosts Pride Shabbat Service

The community is invited to attend a Pride Shabbat service at Congregation Mishkan Israel on Friday, April 20, at 6 p.m. Oneg will precede services at 5:30 p.m. This Pride Shabbat will bring an LGBTQ perspective to the Friday evening Shabbat ritual and will celebrate the LGBTQ community. CMI…

JFS to Honor Adler for Service, SOS Program

By Amy Pressman

JFS Marketing Director

Jewish Family Service of Greater New Haven (JFS) will honor Joe Adler for his decades of service to the community, and particularly for his work as a founder of and inspiration for the JFS Social Work Outreach Services Program (SOS) at the JFS Sprin…

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