Southern New England Jewish Ledger
WORLD NEWS 2020 – The Year in Review
JANUARY • An estimate 25,000 people converge on Manhattan’s Foley Square and make their way to Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza, chanting…
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10 heartwarming Jewish stories from 2020, a year to otherwise forget
By Gabe Friedman (JTA) — There’s no sugarcoating it: 2020 was a difficult, trying, tragic year. But just because COVID-19…
CT NEWS 2020 – The Year in Review
JANUARY • More than 300 guests fill the Performing Arts Center at SUNY Purchase on Jan. 25 for an elegant…
IN MEMORIAM 2020
DAVID STERN, who in three decades as NBA commissioner guided the league from financial distress to become a multibillion-dollar global…
“SHTISEL” Season 3 is here!
You’ve waited long enough. Here’s a peak at Season of “Shtisel,” now streaming on Netflix.
Israel No. 1 on Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs
By Abigail Klein Leichman(Israel21c via JNS) Israel took the No. 1 spot in Mastercard’s 2020 Index of Women Entrepreneurs, ahead…
Yo La Tengo condenses 8 nights of Chanukah concerts into 1 streaming show
(JTA) – In a year when holiday customs have been upended and transformed, one indie band is refusing to let…
Investment in Israeli companies reaches $10 billion despite pandemic
(JNS) Despite the global coronavirus pandemic, Israeli companies raised a record amount of capital in 2020, according to a new…
Rapper Nissim Black’s single ‘The Hava Song’ remakes ‘Hava Nagila’
(JTA) – The latest single by Nissim Black, a pathbreaking Orthodox hiphop artist, reimagines what may be the mostly widely…
GOP Congress members move to ensure US embassy in stays in Jerusalem
(JNS) Ahead of the three-year anniversary of U.S President Donald Trump recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, more than three-dozen Republican…
