New Britain celebrates Rabbi Henry Okolica’s 100th birthday By Cindy Mindell NEW BRITAIN – It’s been a full journey for Rabbi Henry Okolica over his first century – from Kristallnacht and a… Read more »

Award-winning Israeli writer talks about the success of Israeli TV in the U.S. By Cindy Mindell With only two television networks, Israel – faraway, isolated, and war-weary – has created a… Read more »

(JNS.org) A new advertising campaign in Boston area newspapers calls out officials in the public school system of Newton, Mass., over the alleged presence of anti-Israel materials in those schools…. Read more »

By Cindy Mindell Shirley Scholder knew pretty much what to expect as she traveled from her home in North Haven to her granddaughter’s bat mitzvah service in Westborough, Mass. last… Read more »

The author of a controversial new book detailing Hollywood’s relationship with Nazi Germany discusses his findings at Fairfield University By Cindy Mindell Just as the Nazi party was taking power… Read more »

By Cindy Mindell   NEWTOWN – Xiafeng “Fosfor” Wang, 39, has been teaching Mandarin Chinese at Newtown High School since August 2012, as part of the international guest teacher program… Read more »

West Hartford woman chants her 198th haftorah By Cindy Mindell WEST HARTFORD – Gloria Bein is a sort of path-breaker. Twenty-five years ago, she chanted her first haftorah. Next month,… Read more »

By Alex Traiman/JNS.org An apparent antidote to the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is coming from a once unlikely source. Chinese magnate Li Ka-Shing, among Asia’s richest businessmen,… Read more »

By Mara Dresner For a few days this November, the main stage of the Warner Theatre in Torrington will be transformed into the little village of Anatevka, where Tevye, a… Read more »

By Cindy Mindell No matter how one might interpret the recent Pew survey of American Jews, the fact remains that engaging Jewish kids is a priority of the organized Jewish… Read more »