Federation's Overseas Partner JDC Brings Emergency Support to Victims of Hurricane Matthew
By Rebecca Caspi
As Floridians and others along the southeastern US coast braced for the impact of Hurricane Matthew last week, Haiti was already in the midst of its biggest humanitarian disaste…
With winds topping 140 miles per hour, Hurricane Matthew has left a path of destruction in its wake. The powerful storm has wreaked havoc and forced hundreds of thousands to flee for their lives. The full scope of the devastation is still being assessed.
The Jewish Federation of Greater…
By Jeannette Brodeur
In November 1942 in eastern France, Leo Bretholz pried open the bars and jumped to escape from a moving train carrying him and a thousand other deportees to Auschwitz.
More than 60 years later, Bretholz stood before Congress and demanded that the French government be h…
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…
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…
