August 28th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
JACOB YONTEF MATHOG, son of Lori Yontef an David Mathog, will celebrate his bar mitzvah on Saturday, Sept. 1 at Beth El Temple in West Hartford. RISA ROTSTEIN, daughter of Marguerite Felsenfeld and Steve Rotstein, will ... Read More →
August 28th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Shlomo Riskin “When you come to the land which the Lord your God gives to you as an inheritance and you inherit it…. You shall take from the first of all the fruits of the ... Read More →
August 22nd, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
DOMENIC CAMMAROTA, son of Lisa and Antonio Cammarota, will celebrate his bar mitzvah on Saturday, August 25 at Congregation B’nai Israel in Bridgeport. JACOB HERZOG, son of Amy Herzog and Jonathan Herzog, will celebrate his bar ... Read More →
August 22nd, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb One Friday morning many years ago, on the occasion of this week’s Torah portion, Ki Tetzei, I had a discussion with a group of teenagers who were frustrated by the fact ... Read More →
August 22nd, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
JERUSALEM – On June 17, 1944, Moshe Porat marked his bar mitzvah in the Jewish ghetto established by the Nazis in the town of Hajdúnánás in southeastern Hungary. In the dead of night, he took his ... Read More →
August 15th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
SALVADOR KATZ, son of Denise Padilla and Andrew Katz, will celebrate his bar mitzvah on Saturday, August 18 at Congregation Beth Israel in West Hartford. JOSHUA LUBETKIN, son of Lori and Marc Lubetkin, celebrated his bar ... Read More →
August 15th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb I love metaphors. An apt metaphor can help stimulate boundless creativity and can lead to a deeper and richer understanding of the concept being studied. Take, for example, the metaphor of a tree ... Read More →
August 15th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
WEST HARTFORD– The Mandell Jewish Community Center has announced the creation of the Interfaith Family Connection, a new initiative designed to provide programs for interfaith couples and families in the Greater Hartford area. Funded by a ... Read More →
August 8th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Stacey Ilyse (Kveller via JTA) – Growing up, I remember getting cards in the mail for Rosh Hashanah. They were always the normal, generic, Hallmark Happy New Year-type card. Nowadays, people are much more tech ... Read More →
August 8th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb I am sure that you have had the occasion to come across a book which you simply could not put down. Something so fascinating, so gripping, that you were compelled to ... Read More →
Creative ways to celebrate Sukkot…without a sukkah By Sara Shapiro-Plevan Read more →
ALLISON BENTHIEN, daughter of Lauren Benthien and Ross Benthien, will Read more →
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb The recent commemoration of the Read more →
By MJL Staff (My Jewish Learning via JTA) – Yom Read more →
By Marla Cohen Sukkot is often refered to as “Z’man Read more →
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