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Honoring Sam Pava and Robert Foint
LONGMEADOW – Congregation B’nai Torah honored their Gabba’im (ritual leaders) Sam Pava and Robert Foint on Sunday, Oct. 27th during a special gala at the shul. More than 150 people… Read more
A Torah of their Own: Hebrew high school’s new Torah completes a family’s personal story
By Cindy Mindell WEST HARTFORD – This story begins with tefillin and ends, 75 years later, with a Torah scroll. Sometime in early 1939, just before the Nazis occupied his… Read more
Hadassah Retreat Draws Members from around Northeast
LENOX – Nearly 70 women from five Northeast regions – Western New England, Northern New England, Upper Mid-Atlantic, Southern New England, and Connecticut – attended the Hadassah Northeast (HNE) Leadership… Read more
Playwright’s Last Two Plays on Holocaust Resistance to be Used in the Classroom
By Mara Dresner The Kreisau Project, which features the late playwright Marc P. Smith’s final two plays, has established a partnership with the non-profit Facing History and Ourselves, based in… Read more
A bat mitzvah surprise, on ice
By Cindy Mindell Shirley Scholder knew pretty much what to expect as she traveled from her home in North Haven to her granddaughter’s bat mitzvah service in Westborough, Mass. last… Read more
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Prof. Vera Schwarcz at Forest Park Minyan of B’nai Torah
SPRINGFIELD – Forest Park Minyan of Congregation B’nai Torah welcomes Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Vera Schwarcz, Freeman Chair in East Asian studies at Wesleyan University on Shabbat, Nov. 15-16, 124 Sumner Ave. Springfield. Dr. Schwarcz will present:… Read more
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Defending Israel…with the pen
By Cindy Mindell Inaccurate and distorted accounts of events in Israel and the Middle East abound across the spectrum of media outlets, from college radio stations to network television, from… Read more
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Opinion
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What Families Want
By Winnie Sandler Grinspoon The organized Jewish world is still reeling from the Pew Research Center’s recent study on the state of American Jews. According to the study, one-in-five Jews now… Read more
- The Kerry Fiasco
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WM Jewish Life
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Kolot – Destination Vilnius
By Malky Kosofsky Take a 19-year-old girl straight from Longmeadow and ship her off to Vilnius, and how will she manage? I asked myself that question as I embarked with… Read more
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WM Milestones
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New Appointments at JGS
Alta J. Stark Named Director of Marketing & Public Relations for Jewish Geriatric Services LONGMEADOW – Alta J. Stark, of Westfield, has been named director of Marketing & Public… Read more
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