Well-known leaders among New Mexico Humanitarian awards honorees
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque announced Monday the honorees for the 10th annual New Mexico Humanitarian Awards and the winner of the 18th annual Harold B. Albert Award and the 2017 Common Good Investing...
Limmud NY explores difficult conversations and diverse choices
When Jenna Citron’s family moved from Manalapan to Florida, she found herself one of six Jews in a high school of 3,500 students. “I think that was the moment of my life when I...
All the colors of Jewish education
Sometimes the world seems as if it’s divided into so many little never-intersecting bubbles that it’s coming out of a gigantic plastic wand a crazed giant is waving in the air.
We see the dangers...
Jewish Federation honors retiring U.S. representative at Miami event
More than 1,000 people recently attended Greater Miami Jewish Federation's The Main Event.
At the recent annual event in Miami, the Federation honored U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Miami) with its 2018 Friend of Israel Humanitarian Award. The...
Receiving, rebuilding, resiliency: Jewish Houston one year after Harvey
A pyramid of sodden prayer books, flood waters pouring into a sanctuary, bed-ridden patients at the Jewish senior residence being rushed up stairs to higher ground, a crib reduced to splintered pieces.
These are the...
Recent Increase in Anti-Semitism Compels CCL Shul Members to Offer Life Saving Course to...
As synagogues around the US take increased precautionary safety measures, a Chicago-based Jewish organization is offering courses that can save lives in the event of an attack. “Stop the Bleed” is a 60-minute course...
Community coalition to aid Holocaust Survivors
True to its roots, when it was founded in 1936 to help European Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazi regime in Germany, the Jewish Federation of San Diego County on Tuesday, Dec....
JCRC tour illuminates issues on U.S.-Mexico border
wenty-seven people joined the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona for a tour of Arizona’s border with Mexico on May 3. The day included a visit to the site...
New Jewish youth center honors respected community leader
San Antonio’s Congregation Agudas Achim broke ground Sunday on a new youth center to provide a place for area teens to gather and socialize.
The Kavy Youth Center is named in honor of Cary Kavy, who died...
Jewish Community Launches Food Drive for Families Displaced by Hurricane
WEST HARTFORD, CONN. (January 12, 2018) – Thousands of Puerto Rican and other Caribbean individuals and families displaced by Hurricane Maria are expected to come to Greater Hartford to begin a new life. More...