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Hadassah celebrates its centennial in Jerusalem
Chapters from all across Connecticut join the party By Stacey Dresner and Cindy Mindell Nearly 2,000 members of Hadassah — all dressed in matching commemorative red t-shirts – marched joyfully… Read more
Reviving Prospero
New musical takes on art and resistance during the Holocaust By Cindy Mindell HARTFORD – A group of teens is preparing a musical version of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” Nothing… Read more
Setting things straight
“We thought it couldn’t be done,” said Lisa Vaeth, director of the Association of Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Hartford. But it could. And it was. And so, Vaeth announced in… Read more
KOLOT: The War Comes to Tel Aviv
By Jeremy Jacobson I was unbuttoning my pants when the war came to Tel Aviv. It was just after 6:30 p.m. and I had recently returned from work and was… Read more
TORAHPortion: Vayetze
By Shlomo Riskin This week’s Biblical portion of Vayetze records Jacob’s flight to Laban – land of Aram-Naharayim, where he spends 22 years with his wily and deceptive uncle. Jacob… Read more
THANKSGIVING 2012
Giving Thanks…the Jewish Way According to one popular historical interpretation, Thanksgiving is modeled on the biblical harvest of Sukkot. The story goes that the Pilgrims, seeing themselves as new Israelites… Read more
Countering BDS
“Buy Israel Goods” Week December 1 – 9 “Buy Israel Goods” is a campaign in North America to counter the “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” (BDS) movement directed against Israel and… Read more
Seeking survivors of Bergen-Belsen transport
On April 13, 1945, a train carrying 2,500 Jewish prisoners from the German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen – including some 700 children – was liberated near the city of Magdeburg, Germany,… Read more
KOLOT: A Landsman*
By Ron Kadden As he grasped both handles of the Torah and began to recite the brachot, I felt a lump in my throat. After 83 years, my father was… Read more
Thousands of Jews visit Cave of the Patriarchs
(JNS.org) Tens of thousands of Jews arrived in Hebron over the weekend to mark a special Shabbat when the Torah reading opens with Abraham’s purchase of the Cave of Patriarchs…. Read more
