Marc's Remarks

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Barry's Assessment

We are in the final five weeks of our 2014 Campaign, and this is when it gets the hardest. We need to raise $80,000 in these final weeks (last year at this time we had $305,000 to go) to meet our allocations projections.

Who Says Jewish Culture is Dead

The project of Jewish culture is dead. – Dr. James Loeffler, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at the University of Virginia

What's Your Story

A story is one way to tell others about something in your life. It provides you the opportunity to be the author, with your own point of view.

Think Globally -- Act Locally

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, while at the same time

Universal Lessons of the Holocaust

This Sunday evening marks the beginning of the Yom HaShoah commemoration. A time when people around the world remember the six million Jews and millions of others who perished in the Holocaust.