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Jewish War Veterans Meeting for Brunch

Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., Major General Maurice Rose Post 51, will meet on Sunday, March 18, at 9:30 a.m. at Congregation Adath Israel in Middletown for brunch with latkes and to share family traditions to celebrate Pesach. Guest speaker will be author Warren Cyr who will discuss hi…

Who Is Yom HaZikaron in Memory of?

By Rotem Linchevski & Talya Machpood

Our Young Emissaries from Israel

 

Every year, we wonder why are Yom HaZikaron (the IDF Memorial Day) and Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) so close on the calendar?

Why do they have to be two days? Is it really necessary to separate them?…

Hillel Corner

Hillel Corner features our many area Hillels. If your program has something to share, we’d love to feature you. Please send your latest news to Shalom New Haven Editor Jeannette Brodeur at jbrodeur@jewishnewhaven.org.

UCONN Hillel Students Celebrate Bar/Bat Mitzvahs on Birthright Trip

I…

Polish Senate passes bill criminalizing terms linking Poland to Holocaust

JNS.org

 

The Polish Senate passed a bill recently criminalizing statements linking Poland to the murder of Jews which occurred on its soil during the Holocaust, in an attempt to lay blame for the crimes that left more than 1 million Polish Jews dead during World War II squarely on Germa…

JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Honoring Alperin, Stanger

The Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven will honor two community leaders: Judy Alperin, Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, and Lisa Stanger, Executive Director of the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven, at its 42nd Annual Brunch Meeting on S…

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