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Temple Beth Tikvah Welcomes New Cantor, Dr. Leah Cassorla

Temple Beth Tikvah in Madison is thrilled to welcome Dr. Leah Cassorla to the TBT community. We are excited to share that she will be taking the helm at our religious school and will be our new cantorial soloist.  A native Hebrew speaker, Dr. Cassorla was born in Israel and lived there in b…

Mazel Tov to our Jewish Foundation Scholarship Awardees!

Stuart J. Drell Scholarship Fund was awarded to:

Ellina Medovnikov from Amity High School in Woodbridge and will attend Tulane University.

 

Emma Kohn Podoloff Scholarship Fund of the Greater New Haven Section of the National Council of Jewish Women was awarded to:

Sean Doron is from Am…

Beckerman Cultural Arts Series Wraps Up an Illuminating Season

The reviews are in! And we’re proud to report that this year’s Beckerman Cultural Arts Series — which opened in September 2021 and wrapped up in June 2022 — was a hit! And we have so many people to thank — most especially our generous sponsor, David Beckerman, whose ongoing generou…

New Haven Students Get Creative to Welcome the Stranger

Recently, the Jewish Community Alliance for Refugee Resettlement (JCARR) enlisted the aid of religious school students at Temple Emanuel in Orange (grades 4-7) and Congregation Mishkan Israel in Hamden (grades 4-6) to help raise funds needed to meet the needs of refugees settling in the Grea…

If You Can Ski on Snow, You Can Ski on Water

By Yelena Gerovich New American Acculturation Program Coordinator
Did you know that water skiing was invented 100 years ago by a man named Ralph Samuelson who had a logical, yet out-of-the-box, thought. If you could ski on snow, thought the Minnesota man, then certainly you could ski on wate…

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