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An Act of Hope

This past Wednesday I took my lunch hour to take the opportunity to go to the Chatham County Voter Registration Office on Eisenhower Dr to cast my vote in the mid-term election scheduled for November 8th.
 
I was delighted to see quite a line of people waiting to vote at 1pm in the aftern…

Please

Chief Operating Officer, Jamie Richman is our guest columnist this week

Raise your hand if you...
 

... have kids or grandchildren that receive PJ Library books?

... were in youth group when you were a teenager or have a teen in youth group now?

... were involved in the Hillel at your …

But for a Cold Front

Typically, the column that I would write between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur would talk about preparing for the day of fasting and prayer and apologizing to those I had wronged.  Over the next week, Facebook and Instagram will have dozens of the ‘seasonal’ “blanket apologies,” and …

A Sweet New Year

As we are coming to the end of one year and beginning the next Jewish new year, we are reflective and outward-looking, excited and apathetic, hopeful and pessimistic at the same time.  We live in a complicated world, and all too often we miss the beauty of life and the people around us.

To…

Community, Security & Unity

Community
Security
Unity…

…was the theme of the 79th Savannah Jewish Federation Annual Meeting.  Not that we all got together in advance to coordinate our remarks, but the theme(s) of the remarks from the four congregational rabbis, outgoing President, Kenneth Sadler,  Federation Pr…