When I was a kid growing up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, I loved baseball. I loved everything about it from the family with three boys next door whose dad would throw us countless pop flies and grounders in their backyard every night after supper, to the awesome Johnny Bench Batter-Up my dad …
(JNS) The holiday Shavuot—beginning after sundown on Saturday, June 4, and continuing through the evening of Monday, June 6 (in Israel it is celebrated just for one day)—transports Jews back 3,333 years to the culmination of the 49 days following the exodus from Egypt (marked by the holi…
In celebration of Israel’s 75th birthday, the Jewish Federations of Greater Hartford and Greater New Haven will lead a "Choose Your Own Adventure" community trip to Israel, March 9 – 16, 2023. Between 200-400 local community members are expected to participate in this once-in-a-lifetime …
“What happened to me,” Philip Lazowski, one of the last remaining survivors who can still tell the tale, “is a lesson on what could still happen.”
Lazowski, 91, survived the Holocaust. He told his story one recent Sunday at The Towers senior complex on Church Street South in the ho…
The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven has welcomed two new members of staff, it was announced recently by Federation CEO Judy Alperin.
Michael Flora has joined the Federation team as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and Rabbi Joshua Pernick is the organization's new JCRC Directo…
