By Ruth Douglas
Shalom New Haven Staff
This year, Pride Month celebrations in the U.S. experienced record attendance and support. But the shocking anti-Semitic actions against Jewish marchers at a pride parade in Chicago revealed a disturbing narrative that has recently emerged in the LGBTQ+…
Juliette Markman, who was called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah at Temple Beth David in June, recently completed a unique and community-friendly service project – Cheshire’s first “Little Free Library” on the temple’s front lawn. Little Free Library is a nonprofit organization that …
The 12th annual Shoreline Jewish Festival will take place Sunday, August 6 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the Guilford Green. The festival features various styles of Jewish music, traditional and Israeli fair food (all kosher), an art and book sale, and children’s crafts and activities. This ye…
Women’s Philanthropy of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven celebrated the first day of summer by hearing about all the best books of the season at the Guilford Yacht Club with Roxanne J. Coady of R.J. Julia Booksellers.
Special thanks the event’s sponsors: Jennifer Bayer, Dena S…
By George Hauer
Shalom New Haven Contributor
In the early 1950’s, using a Torah borrowed from Congregation B’nai Jacob in Woodbridge, about 35 Jewish families purchased a small building in Branford to form the East Shore Jewish Center. Slowly, there was an influx of Jewish families …
