We are in a unique time of year for the Jewish people. It is a time when we both commemorate and celebrate as a worldwide Jewish community. We are in the middle of a special ten-day period – one filled with anticipation and various emotions.
Speaking of thirty years ago, on April 19, 1987, Fox Television aired the first of several animated shorts featuring a dysfunctional family called The Simpsons.
I hope that everyone is enjoying the Passover holiday. It is a special time when we retell the story of our exodus from Egypt and freedom from oppression. It is a major event in our people’s history and one where Moses and the Jewish people experienced the thrill of victory. (I know some…
One of the most important functional areas for the Jewish Federations of North America is its Washington Action Office. Their focus is to monitor and lobby legislation that will impact the American Jewish community, as well as the general community in coalition with others. They are our…
On Thursday morning, we learned of the arrest of a 19 year-old Israeli-American teen in Israel suspected of making bomb threats (all which turned out to be hoaxes) called in to Jewish community centers and organizations in 40 U.S. States, four Canadian provinces, New Zealand and Australia.
