Beth Ahm celebrates 125 years
For generations, Beth Ahm has been a center of Jewish life.
Almost 125 years ago, on May 10, 1892, Articles of Association were filed and a small group of devoted Galitzianers (from western Ukraine and...
The Jewish community should be proud of disaster response
There have been dozens of accounts of Jewish communities locally, nationally and worldwide rallying to help victims of recent tragedies, both man-made and natural. Tallied together, the need seems overwhelming but the Jewish reaction...
Hungary’s Jewish community marks 70 years for the state of Israel with KKL-JNF
Today, March 22, 2018, Keren Kayemet Le’Israel-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) hosted members of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary (MAZSIHISZ) and the Hungarian Embassy in a formal planting ceremony to celebrate Israel’s 70th.
The...
Promoting a culture of Jewish learning
As many people in the Greater Phoenix Jewish community know, Valley Beit Midrash is committed to fostering a pluralistic intellectual culture of Jewish learning with our every endeavor. Whether it is through our regular...
Atlanta Jewish Life Festival Returns to Aquarium in January 2020
Atlanta’s largest single-day celebration of Jewish culture and community returns to the Georgia Aquarium on January 26, 2020. The 2nd Annual Atlanta Jewish Life Festival promises to bring together over seventy-five different Jewish organizations,...
Harold “Smoky” Simon, one of the IAF’s founders, dies at 101
Three days after he passed away at the age of 101, close to his 102nd birthday, tributes continue to pour in for Harold “Smoky” Simon on Thursday, one of the legendary founders of the Israeli...
Isaac Arazi Z’L, 80, head of ‘tiny’ Jewish community in Lebanon
The octogenarian former president of the about 30-strong Jewish community in Lebanon, who had sought to conserve the abandoned Magen Avraham synagogue in central Beirut, died on Dec. 27 and was buried the same...
The New Sefer Torah is the First in Texas Written by Woman
Growing from the motto “Austin Born, Torah Raised,” Congregation Agudas Achim is one of the oldest Jewish communities in the city, founded more than 100 years ago. To fulfill the 613th mitzvah, or commandment, members of...
Chassidic matriarch Miriam Friedman, 101, helped holocaust survivors flee to west
Miriam Friedman, whose life spanned the oppression of Soviet Russia, the chaos of post-World War II Europe and the heady growth of Chabad in the United States and around the world, passed away on...
Multi language Yiddish site receives prize as best online content site from the NAHP
The site, published in Spanish, English and Yiddish by Becky Krinsky (originally from Mexico but currently in San Diego) offers lifestyle recommendations for a better life in the US -and anywhere really- and includes...