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“Curiosity Over Assumptions” “Relationships Before Politics” “Plurality Over Parity” “Local Over International” “Respect for Self-Definition” “Safe Open Space” “Nimble and Responsive” These are the stated values of NewGround, a community-building organization that creates, connects and empowers Jewish and Muslim change-makers in America. NewGround works through a professional fellowship, high school leadership council and public programming.. Read more »
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“Last spring I found out that my father was not my biological father,” I told him, keeping the story as brief as possible.
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As a Black Jewish woman, it feels inevitable that whenever a book comes out about being Black and Jewish, someone’s going to tell me to read it. So when someone asked me to review Color Me In by Natasha Diaz, I was skeptical. Usually these books are not actually written for me they are written to. Read more »
Jewish Ledger
In Conversation with…community leader and philanthropist Ann Pava
We truly believe that sending children to Jewish day school is the most important decision a family can make.
In 2019, the Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy of Greater Hartford and the Hebrew High School of New England merged to create K-12 Orthodox Jewish day school in West Hartford. The merged school, renamed the New England Jewish Academy (NEJA), serves students in the Greater Hartford, Greater New Haven, and Greater Springfield communities .
Thanks to the vision and generosity of community leaders Ann and Jeremy Pava, New England Jewish Academy now offers a transformative, subsidized tuition program, The Pava Tuition Initiative, for all students from kindergarten through twelfth grade.