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Last month, our community assembled to commemorate three holidays—Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Yom HaZikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day), and Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day). Within the two-week period, well over 600 community members came together to remember those we have lost and celebrate the survival of the Jewish people. As a lifelong resident of
We’re making room on our shelves for plenty of new books. This month we look at novels; both historical and contemporary subjects figure prominently in these selections. MINNA: Two teenagers living in Liverpool, England, in 1935 conceive a child. Catholic Viv and her Jewish boyfriend, Joshua Levinson, quickly get married, only for Viv to
For the past 50 years, Yvonne Epstein has been a receptionist at Beth El Congregation, and has seen the synagogue change around her.
Jewish childhood religious schools are trying to innovate as they face dropping enrollment — though there is one silver lining.
The do-it-yourself spirit of Congregation Neve Shalom echoes the hands-on Judaism movement of the 1970s.