Southern New England Jewish Ledger
B'nai Mitzvah
ZACHARY EVERETT, son of Rachel Bush and Anthony Everett, will celebrate his bar mitzvah on Saturday, June 8 at Temple…
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Congregation Beth Israel at 170 — West Hartford synagogue marks a milestone anniversary
By Cindy Mindell WEST HARTFORD – In an era when many synagogues are merging or closing, news of a landmark…
Conversation with…David Krakauer
“Klezmer gave me this thing to hold onto, something strong about my Jewish identity. I started having Jewish content in my…
Sam Kassow in Poland for 70th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Special to the Ledger HARTFORD – Since the 2007 publication of Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw…
A User-Friendly Youth Group: Connecticut’s only remaining Jewish Student Union continues to thrive
By Cindy Mindell WEST HARTFORD – In 1984, Congress passed the Equal Access Act, requiring public schools to provide equal…
The Arab Spring — Can Jordan’s monarchy hold on?
By Sean Savage/JNS.org Bordering the attention-grabbing countries of Israel, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Jordan is sometimes overlooked by the…
Connecticut Premiere of “Making Light in Terezin”
NEW HAVEN – CLAL and Power Story Entertainment present the New England premiere of “Making Light in Terezin,” a documentary…
Los Angeles elects its first Jewish mayor
(JNS.org) Eric Garcetti will be the first elected Jewish mayor in the history of Los Angeles after winning 54 percent…
Torah scroll found in Italian university library is possibly world’s oldest
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A university in Italy has discovered what it said might be the oldest complete Torah scroll…
Israeli Company Commercializing Automatic Driving Software
(JNS.org) Israeli company Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd. has unveiled a car that navigates itself without human driving using camera-based software….
