185 volunteers joined the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven at its Mitzvah Day volunteering event on Sunday, March 5, to help lend a hand in the community in fulfillment of a mitzvah. Projects took place at four sites around Greater New Haven, and impacted over 1,000 people. Programs in…
Kick off your summer at Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek’s annual outdoor community concert and picnic on Sunday, June 25, offering free entertainment with the music of Bivolita Klezmet Quartet. This young group’s repertoire is drawn from the early European sources of Jewish instrume…
Over the past several months, there have been an alarming number of reported hate crimes and anti-Semitic inspired incidents directed at Jewish communities throughout the country. The recent fire at the JCC and the bomb threats experienced in January and February followed heightened local aw…
By Sharon M. Hasbani
Young Leadership Chair, Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Executive Committee
What do an IT professional, a nurse, a lawyer, a robotics Ph.D., and a graphic designer all have in common? They are all local, rising Jewish community lay leaders who recently began the…
By Yelena Gerovich
New American Acculturation Coordinator
Do you like gefilte fish? How about architecture? If you like both, you would enjoy and understand the fish motifs in Frank Gehry’s amazing architectural works. Gehry was born in 1929 in Toronto to Polish Jewish parents. In a recen…
