From the CEO...

Unprecedented relationship

After close to 14 years at the helm of the Savannah Jewish community you’d think I’d seen it all … and then came COVID.  Not in my wildest imagination could I have ever dreamt of what we’ve been living through. The stops, the starts, the worry about your loved ones, the worry about …

Whew...it's hard to imagine

Just when you think we are coming back to our pre-COVID lives, Omicron hits us, and hits us hard. Who could have imagined that just 30 days ago the Chatham County Transmission Index of 111 would go to 2,715 (the number of newly confirmed cases in the last 14 days per 100,000).  We thought …

Another Triple Header

This week I couldn’t help reflecting on a famous Groucho Marx quote when he resigned from the Friar’s Club, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”

On Saturday, I woke up with a stuffy nose, but with our ever-changing weather, I put it off…

A Matthew Moment

On Tuesday, Jamie Richman came in to discuss one of the programs that the Savannah Jewish Federation organizes: Idenifying and sponsoring a local teacher to attend the Holocaust & Jewish Resistance Teachers Summer program, a two+ week seminar for teachers with educational activities in Pola…

Something for Everyone

Director of Community Impact, Jamie Richman is our guest columnist this week

 

Through the recent Savannah Jewish Community Survey, we learned that There is a significant support for all adult programs. More than three-quarters of respondents rated all programs for adults as very or somew…