When writing a column each week (well, most weeks) I try to share a story about the community or the goings on at the Federation and/or JEA. Sometimes the words fly out in ten minutes and other times I struggle to come up with something that people might want to read.Â
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Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day also referred to at the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. January 27th was chosen to commemorate the date when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.
At the request of Australia, C…
The Hate Ends Now-Cattle Car Experience (HEN) returned to Savannah for the past two weeks with thousands of impressions made on/in our community.
The program was introduced to Savannah by Rabbi Eli Lob who had seen it in Charleston. It has traversed North American as a partnership between…
As we prepare for Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, there is darkness around us, the darkness of antisemitism.
Many of us grew up in this country when antisemitism was waning. Over the last 50 years, Jews lived in relative security in this country. No longer were we banned from social o…
