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‘A Call to Remember: The David Schaecter Story’ will air Thursday at the Aspen Jewish Community Center, and include a conversation with the film’s subject. Courtesy photo

Jewish Community Center screening makes sure we never forget

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In a study released in April 2018, more than one-fifth of millennials surveyed said they haven’t heard of the Holocaust or aren’t sure if they’ve heard of it. A full two-thirds couldn’t identify what...
The exhibit, ¿Power of Protest: The Movement to Free Soviet Jews,¿ was created by the Philadelphia-based National Museum of American Jewish History. It details the protest movement regarding the rights of Jewish people living in Russia at that time.

Soviet Jew Movement Exhibit Comes To Mandell JCC in Hartford CT.

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The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford has brought a traveling exhibit about the movement to free the Soviet Jews in the 1960s to the Mandell JCC's Chase Family Gallery. The exhibit, "Power of Protest: The Movement...
Volunteers from the United States will have the opportunity to participate in an archaeological dig in Israel as part of a pilot program that begins in November 2018. Credit: Israel Antiquities Authority.

Volunteers for Israel dig into new program starting this fall

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Volunteers for Israel, a 36-year-old nonprofit organization that encourages American Jews to lend their services to help the Jewish state, announces a new pilot program that tacks on archeology to its endeavors from Nov....

Jewish-themed films to be screened in Palm Beach County

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Two dramatic Jewish-themed films will be screened in July in Boca Raton and Delray Beach . "Righteous," a 2016 Polish drama based on a true story about a Jewish orphan who was hidden during the Holocaust by a Polish...
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Jewish events in Europe for the next 3 months

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Cultures      Arts Festival de culture juive de Cracovie Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow du 22 Juin au 1 Juil Cracovie      Arts Summer Art Camp 2018 The Israel Museum du 1 Juil au 26 Août Jerusalem      Cinéma Festival du film juif de Berlin Festival du film juif de...

This weekend, join us to resist in the streets at Families Belong Together rallies...

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Dear readers: The news this week has made us sick to our stomachs — massive immigrant detention camps, the Supreme Court’s Muslim Ban and JANUS decisions, Justice Anthony Kennedy retiring from the Supreme Court, and...

Greater Chicago Jewish Festival

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If spring is here can the Greater Chicago Jewish Festival be far behind?  So, forget the cold and plan on celebrating everything Jewish at the 2018 Greater Chicago Jewish Festival on Sunday, June 10,...
Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi leads a JLF seminar on ‘Sex, Love, and Romance’ at NYU’s Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life. Credit: Hillel International.

Coffee dates, Shabbat dinners, text study—and answers to the ‘big questions,’ courtesy of Hillel

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Ester Shamailova says her parents, who are from Azerbaijan but now live in Brooklyn, N.Y., are very strict. For that reason—and because of money—her only option after high school was attending a commuter school. She...

Palm Beach Fellowship of Christians & Jews celebrates 25 years

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The Palm Beach Fellowship of Christians & Jews celebrated the conclusion of its 25th season, “Seeking Common Ground” with over 100 people at The Colony on May 1. After cocktails, Fellowship Education Chairwoman Rosalie Franks presented awards to...

Poems of Senesh and Amichai to be featured May 23

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SAN DIEGO — Hannah Senesh (1921-1944) and (1924-2000) were two of Israel’s most celebrated poets. Their works will be featured in Poets of the Past at the Astor Judaica Library, Lawrence Family JCC on...