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2017 Women of Vision Grant Recipients

This year, the Women of Vision Society awarded grants totaling $12,500. Women of Vision provides women in our community with an easy and accessible way to become lifelong philanthropists through this permanent, restricted endowment fund. The endowment was originally created in 1996 with its …

Jewish High School of CT Students Research Recycling Mitigation

A Call for Better Recycling in Stamford

By Dr. Seth Riemer, Gabriella Lieberman, Natalie Shclover, Samuel Terr, Julia Arnowitz, Emily Sklar, Mathew Zweibel
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, many nations of the world have tried to come up with varying conservation methods to prevent the …

JFS Plans Adoption Homestudy Group

By Amy Pressman

Jewish Family Service of Greater New Haven is planning its upcoming Adoption Homestudy Group. Home study courses are offered by JFS periodically throughout the year for families interested in adopting infants and younger children. This group helps families prepare to be pare…

On Stage with The Towers Residents

Residents of Tower One/Tower East have been participating in an exciting, year-long project. The Elder Playwright Program is collaboration between Long Wharf Theatre and Tower One/Tower East. This past season, 15 participants from The Towers attended every show in the LWT 52nd Season. The sh…

Bar Mitzvah Puts Caring for Others at the Top of HIs List

Robert Farbman, a seventh grader at Amity Middle School in Bethany who became Bar Mitzvah at Temple Emanuel in May, has dedicated his mitzvah project to JCARR, the Jewish Community Alliance for Refugee Resettlement. Over the last few months, Robert spent time with a Syrian refugee family spo…

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