Feature Stories

Finding Their Voices – The children of Holocaust survivors stand up to speak up

August 24th, 2016 | by LedgerOnline

By Cindy Mindell WEST HARTFORD – Children born to Holocaust survivors must walk a tricky line: honor and preserve their

August 24th, 2016 | by LedgerOnline

By Cindy Mindell In just a month’s time, hundreds of thousands of people around the world will mark the third

August 24th, 2016 | by LedgerOnline

By Andrew Tobin JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli security forces shut down six illegal weapons manufacturing factories in the West Bank in

August 24th, 2016 | by Ledger Online

(JTA) — Esther Jungreis, a pioneer in the Jewish outreach movement and founder of the organization Hineni, died Tuesday. She was

August 17th, 2016 | by LedgerOnline

A Japanese musical ensemble brings its audacious Yiddishe sound to Hartford By Cindy Mindell Japanese klezmer? Not exactly oxymoronic. But

August 17th, 2016 | by LedgerOnline

BRIDGEPORT – On Thursday, August 4, more than 200 donors and friends joined the leadership of Jewish Senior Services, as

August 17th, 2016 | by LedgerOnline

On the 50th anniversary of its publication, University of Bridgeport Professor Richard Rubenstein discusses his landmark – and controversial –

August 17th, 2016 | by LedgerOnline

By Rafael Medoff/JNS.org For the first time, the U.S. State Department has explicitly accused the Palestinian Authority (PA) of promoting

August 10th, 2016 | by LedgerOnline

The families of the survivors of the Ponary Tunnel Escape reunite in Tel Aviv This past spring, an international team,

August 10th, 2016 | by LedgerOnline

Filmmaker Steve Loring sets out to discover the workings of love By Cindy Mindell While the world’s fastest-growing age group