Southern New England Jewish Ledger
Germany ‘stands alongside Israel’
(JNS.org) German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Friday, May 17…
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State Dept. report finds rise in antisemitism
(JNS.org) The newly released International Religious Freedom Report for 2012 by the U.S. State Department study found an increase in…
Palestinians break hole in security fence
(JNS.org) An Israeli security official said security forces are altering their previous “silk gloves” approach to rioters such as…
Torah Portion: Beha'alotecha
By Shlomo Riskin “In the second month [Iyar] on the afternoon of the fourteenth day, he shall prepare it [the…
60 Minutes: At War With The Truth
By Cindy Mindell On April 22, 2012 CBS’s 60 Minutes aired “Christians of the Holy Land,” reported by Bob Simon…
“A Jew Grows in Brooklyn” — A Conversation with Jake Ehrenreich
NEW YORK, N.Y. — When Jake Ehrenreich was growing up in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn in the 1960s,…
New Haven philanthropist Morris Trachten z”l was “a living Torah”
By Cindy Mindell NEW HAVEN — Morris N. Trachten, a leading Connecticut Jewish philanthropist, died on May 8 at Hospice…
Rabbi Yitzchok and Leslie Adler to be honored in West Hartford
By Leonard Felson WEST HARTFORD — Rabbi Yitzchok Adler, a first-generation American whose German-Jewish parents survived the Holocaust, says he…
Report: Possible link between Boston bombers and triple homicide
A report by New York’s Jewish Press two weeks ago notes a possible link between the Boston bombers and…
BY THE NUMBERS – Israelis and ‘Women of the Wall’
(JNS.org) Nearly half of Israelis, 48 percent, support the right of the group known as Women of the Wall to…
