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Two Israel Air Force pilots killed in helicopter training crash
(JNS.org) Two Israel Air Force pilots were killed Monday, March 11, when a Cobra helicopter crashed during a training exercise near the city of Gedera, in central Israel, Israel Hayom… Read more
Conversation with…Rabbi Avi Weiss
Renowned Modern Orthodox leader in West Hartford Mar. 17 By Cindy Mindell WEST HARTFORD – Avraham (Avi) Weiss is an American Modern Orthodox ordained rabbi who heads the 800-family Hebrew… Read more
4th Annual Interfaith Hunger Seder at Connecticut State Capitol
HARTFORD – The Fourth Annual Interfaith Hunger Seder to raise hunger awareness will be held on Thursday, March 21st at 4:30 p.m. in the Old Judiciary Room (third floor) of… Read more
UConn celebrates Primo Levi
By Cindy Mindell STORRS – A quarter-century after his passing, Italian-Jewish philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi is the subject of a year-long academic series, a collaboration between the… Read more
BY THE NUMBERS: Being Jewish in America
“Do you regard being Jewish for yourself primarily as being part of a cultural group, a people, a religious group, or an ethnic group?” Here is what Jewish Americans had… Read more
“Unique” collaboration brings Delia Ephron to Westport
By Cindy Mindell WESTPORT – World-renowned writer Delia Ephron will share her wit and wisdom with Fairfield County women when she keynotes at the Annual Women’s Education Symposium on Wednesday,… Read more
A Tale of Two Worlds
Bloomfield rabbis take part in a mission to Kiev and Israel By Judie Jacobson BLOOMFIELD – Rabbi Gary Atkins of Beth Hillel Synagogue and Rabbi Debra Cantor of Congregation B’nai… Read more
With open arms
Connecticut native Ed Case talks about attitudes towards intermarriage…and why they need to change By Judie Jacobson On Sunday, March 10 Ed Case will come home to Connecticut to talk… Read more
Conversation with… Dr. Steven M. Cohen
Scholar will discuss new trends in Jewish life and community in Trumbull Prof. Steven M. Cohen is an internationally renowned sociologist whose work focuses on the American Jewish community. He… Read more
