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Aug 17, 2021

JCARR Driving Teacher Opens Door to U.S. Rite of Passage

by Clifford Wolff

For many refugees, getting a driver’s license is a rite of passage in becoming American. While most of us who grew up here learned from our parents or at school, for the adult JCARR refugees, we volunteers teach them to drive.

First comes the “knowledge test…

Aug 17, 2021

A Very Sweet Tradition

by Maya Zanger-Nadis
Shalom New Haven Interim Editor


The ritual items used on the High Holidays—shofar, machzor, or perhaps a kitel—are all simple, uniform items with little room for personalization. But there are small ways to enhance our aesthetic experience of Tishrei. Westville’…

Aug 17, 2021

Honorable Menschen

New Haven native, Dr. Jeffrey Levinson has been promoted to be the General Studies Principal at Mesivta Yesodei HaTorah (MYH) in Naugatuck, CT. MYH, in its own words, is“a yeshiva for the motivated bochur [student] who desires to learn and grow as a ben Torah and aspires …

Aug 17, 2021

Former Jewish Home Assets Benefit Local Jewish Elderly

by Maya Zanger-Nadis
Shalom New Haven Interim Editor


When the Jewish Home for the Aged was sold to a Chicago firm in 2011, the Jewish Home Building Fund Corporation, which was a separate entity, continued to hold the former Jewish Home’s assets, including, many of the Jewish Home's treas…

Aug 17, 2021

Ezra Celebrates Its Community Leaders

by Julie Katz

Ezra Academy feels and acts like a family unit. At once warm and inviting, full of energy and activity, and all working toward the same goal: Ensuring that our children grow up to become educated and contributing members of society. Our values, which i…

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