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Oct 7, 2016

JDC Helps European Holocaust Survivors in Need

Oszkár, 94, vividly remembers his Budapest childhood. Passover seders with family, singing in the synagogue choir, studying at vocational school—and the Nazis storming in and destroying all of it. Though he had dreamed of one day becoming a bank officer, the new anti-Jewish legislation tu…

Oct 6, 2016

Best Place for Zumba, Three Years in a Row

Thank you JCC members for voting us #1 three years in a row as the best place to take Zumba in the Greater New Haven area! Your commitment and energy keep us going and inspire us to bring you the best moves and music. To celebrate, the JCC's Zumba teachers are offering a free 2.5-hour dan…

Oct 6, 2016

New Alliance Bank Foundation Grants $5,000

The Jewish Coalition for Literacy (JCL), serving approximately 350 children this year, is funded through annual campaign contributions made to the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven as well as a $5,000 grant by the New Alliance Bank Foundation. JCL’s reading partner volunteers share t…

Oct 2, 2016

Temple Beth David Merges the Past into the Present

By Cindy Papish Gerber, for Shalom New Haven

Photos by Marty Cobern 

 

Thanks in part to a major Community Grant from The Jewish Foundation, Temple Beth David in Cheshire has been able to restore and redesign their historic sanctuary.

 

Founded in 1968, Temple Beth David (TBD) is a …

Oct 2, 2016

Shimon Peres, Remembered by the New Haven-area Jewish Community

Written By Ed Stannard for the Register Citizen POSTED: 

JERUSALEM Israel and the world on Wednesday mourned the death of Shimon Peres, a former president and prime minister whose life story mirrored that of the Jewish state, as the government began preparations f…

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