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From left, students Brandon Gerardi and Mia Evans along with Pam O’Brien, chief executive officer of Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse, one of the organizations to receive a grant from the No Small Change program. (Jewish Women’s Foundation/Courtesy)

No Small Change program enables teens to invest in their community

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High school students who are eager to change the world have the opportunity to do so by applying for No Small Change, a collaborative project between the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County and...
Children of Halutza sit in front of the site of the new state-of-the-art Halutza Community Center. Credit: Jewish National Fund-USA.

Future community center breaks ground in the southern Negev

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Quite literally among the booms and billows of black smoke across the nearby Gaza border, deep in Israel’s southern Negev Desert, the new community of Shlomit laid a cornerstone and broke ground for their...

The Peace Train: Uniting People

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The Peace Train is coming and we can all get high on the Peace Train as Sharon Katz has brought her band to San Diego and Tijuana, starting with last night’s rousing performance at...
Jewish community professionals, educators, rabbis and lay leaders recently met at Temple Kol Ami Emanu-El in Plantation to inaugurate the Thought Leadership Forum for the Jewish Disabilities Inclusion Project. (GOODMAN JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF)

Goodman JFS launches Jewish Disabilities Inclusion Project

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Jewish community professionals, educators, rabbis and lay leaders representing 12 synagogues and organizations throughout Broward County recently met at Temple Kol Ami Emanu-El in Plantation to inaugurate the Thought Leadership Forum for the Jewish Disabilities Inclusion Project. The Jewish...
U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, left, poses with his father, Leonard Perlmutter. (Photo courtesy of the congressman’s office)

Longtime community leader “Len” Perlmutter dies

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Leonard Perlmutter, a successful businessman, one-time state economic-development chief, longtime ambassador for National Jewish Health and father of rep. Ed Perlmutter, passed away on July 8. “He was an innovator, business man, educator, civic leader,...
‘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...