Dim the Lights!
The Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival — March 20 – 30 Silence your cell phones, unwrap... Read more
Jewish teens tackle world issues at Yeshiva University’s Model UN
By Cindy Mindell STAMFORD – The United Nations is in session. Sam Collins, Croatian delegate to the... Read more
Conversation with Josh Aronson
Award-winning film director brings Orchestra of Exiles to Westport Mar. 23 By Cindy Mindell In the... Read more
Solomon Schechter announces new head of school
By Cindy Mindell WEST HARTFORD – The coming academic year will see a change in leadership at Solomon... Read more
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- Crown Market: Restocked and Ready for New Beginning
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- Jewish teens tackle world issues at Yeshiva University’s Model UN
- Conversation with Josh Aronson
- Solomon Schechter announces new head of school
- Beyond misloach manot
- Meet novelist Dara Horn in Westport
- Ben-Gurion University researcher may have a cure for Type 1 diabetes
- JScreen public health initiative fights Jewish genetic diseases
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CT News
Crown Market: Restocked and Ready for New Beginning
By Stacey Dresner WEST HARTFORD – On Sunday morning, March 2, Roger Keroack stood at the door of the Crown Supermarket in West Hartford offering each shopper a freshly-baked cookie… Read more
Israeli Stage Presents “Oh God” at Trinity College Hillel
HARTFORD – Israeli Stage will present Anat Gov’s touching comedy about faith in secular society, “Oh, God,” on March 11 at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity College Hillel, Zachs Hillel House,… Read more
Solomon Schechter announces new head of school
By Cindy Mindell WEST HARTFORD – The coming academic year will see a change in leadership at Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford. Andrea Kasper has been appointed… Read more
The Crown Market to remain open
WEST HARTFORD – A group of community leaders including Henry M. Zachs, Alan Lazowski, Brian Newman, Leonard Udolf and others has finalized a deal allowing The Crown Market in West Hartford… Read more
Community leaders rally to save The Crown Market
By Judie Jacobson WEST HARTFORD – A group of community leaders, led by three prominent businessmen, all active leaders in the Greater Hartford Jewish community, this week announced that… Read more
CT Briefs
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Movers & Shakers
Daniel Avraham, President, Yale College Council, New Haven It would be impressive enough to learn of an Israeli native studying at an Ivy League university. If she or he had been a… Read more
- Film Review – “The Zigzag Kid” screens in Stamford Oct. 27 and 31
- Breast Cancer Symposium in Darien on Oct. 7
- Jewish Film Series set to open in Southbury
Jewish Life
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Israeli Stage Presents “Oh God” at Trinity College Hillel
HARTFORD – Israeli Stage will present Anat Gov’s touching comedy about faith in secular society, “Oh, God,” on March 11 at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity College Hillel, Zachs Hillel House,… Read more
- Torah Portion – Vayikra
- Torah Portion – Pekudai
- Torah Portion – Vayakhel
Milestones
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Chai Mitzvah in the News!
“To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, Jewish communal energy is wasted on the young.” So begins a provocative and timely essay by Chai Mitzvah executive director Audrey Lichter, which was recently published… Read more
- Pastoral Services Team at Jewish Senior Services Making a Difference
- B’NAI MITZVAH
- DEAN’S LIST
National/World
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Alice Herz-Sommer, world’s oldest-known Holocaust survivor, dies at 110
(JNS.org) Alice Herz-Sommer, who is considered to be the world’s oldest-known Holocaust survivor, died on Sunday at the age of 110 in London. Herz-Sommer’s death comes a week before a… Read more
- Ukrainian Chabad center attacked
- Israeli Air Force strikes targets on Syria-Lebanon border
- In a first, Christians legally granted separate representation from Muslim Arabs
Opinion
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Israeli Apartheid Week is a Soviet creation
By Ben Cohen/JNS.org #Rethink2014 is one of the more creative Twitter hashtags I’ve recently encountered. Launched by students opposing the hatefest otherwise known as “Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW), the… Read more
- Robert Malley’s return
- NY Times column on anti-Zionism a reminder of its own publisher’s past
- Responding to the J Street challenge
Special Features
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Chanukah Meets Thanksgiving…in the kitchen
For the first time in over 100 years, the first night of Chanukah and Thanksgiving coincide in an epic food holiday to rival all others. Thanksgivukah, as it has come to… Read more
- Connecticut College proves the ever-delicious (and kosher) Oreo to be a gateway drug
- ‘Kaddish, Women’s Voices’ depicts struggle between modernity and modern Orthodoxy
- CAMERA gives students tools to counter anti-Israel bias
Spotlight on Business
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Warren Buffett lauds Israel
(JNS.org) Dubbed the “start-up nation” for its culture of innovation in a book by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, Israel received praise last week from world-famous billionaire investor Warren… Read more
- Spotlight on … Jonathan Reiner
- Creative Chanukah Gifts for Kids
- Yiddish Book Center Named Slingshot “Standard Bearer”
