Carmel Valley festival offers a taste of Jewish culture
You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy Jewish food and culture.
Many found that out Sunday at the 30th annual Jewish Food Festival at Congregation Beth Israel on Carmel Valley Road.
The annual fundraising event...
Haskell named Bernard distinguished scholar of Jewish studies
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ellen D. Haskell has been appointed as the Herman & Zelda Bernard Distinguished Scholar of Jewish Studies. She is an outstanding professor and teacher-scholar in the Department...
Love of soccer brings together Jewish and Arab kids
A quarter hour’s drive is all that separates Pardes Hana-Karkur from Kafr Kara, but the actual distance between these two communities is enormous and represents the growing rift between Jewish and Arab society in...
Temple Birthday Bash commemorates 150 years
The Temple celebrated its 150th birthday with a party for the congregational family Sunday afternoon, Aug. 20.
A large tent decorated with green and white balloons covered most of The Temple’s parking lot, and everyone from...
New Torah scroll for Baton Rouge’s Jewish community
A Torah originally commissioned in Eastern Europe before World War II was rededicated Sunday evening to Chabad of Baton Rouge.
After an almost year-long search, the Torah scroll, which comprises the Five Books of Moses,...
Dor Hadash to relocate to Beth Shalom
After seven years of dwelling under the same roof, Congregation Dor Hadash will be parting ways with Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Congregation and moving into Congregation Beth Shalom.
Dor Hadash, a Reconstructionist congregation, has been...
Miriam “Mickey” Sokobin (1934-2017): Rabbi’s wife was linguist, volunteer
Miriam “Mickey” Sokobin, who embraced Toledo as home, becoming a language teacher in the Jewish community and a hospital volunteer, died Aug. 15 in ProMedica Ebeid Hospice Residence, Sylvania. She was 83.
She learned she...
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...
Palm Beach County Holocaust educator visits Europe on study trip
s the K-12 Holocaust Studies program planner for the West Palm Beach-based School District of Palm Beach County, Maureen Carter is constantly looking for ways to learn how to teach about the Holocaust.
As such, Carter...
Group follows Jewish tradition of clowning
There is a long tradition of clowns as entertainers in Jewish culture.
Mitzvah clowns have a tradition of getting dressed up wildly and bringing happiness to senior homes and children's hospitals to fulfill the Jewish mitzvah (commandment) of bikur...