Our Woman of Impact profile features a local woman making a notable impact in our community. For this issue, we spoke with Dr. Robin Santiago, who has called West Hartford home for nearly her entire life. Until her retirement five years ago, Robin owned a private dental practice in West Hart…
A partnership between Jewish Family Services, Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford (SSDS), and JTConnect has led to a new “Belonging and Wellness” pilot program for Jewish students at SSDS. This four-session series, developed for the school’s seventh-grade class, focuse…
Nearly five years after a mass shooter took 11 lives at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, a jury handed down a sentence of death in August 2023. In the weeks and months following the shooting, law enforcement uncovered a series of antisemitic social media posts that foreshadowed the sho…
Voices of Hope is a non-profit organization created by descendants of Holocaust survivors from across Connecticut. The organization empowers people of all faiths to stand up against hatred through Holocaust and genocide education and remembrance. Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford is hono…
Our Woman of Impact profile features a local woman making a notable impact in our community. For this issue, we spoke with Debbie Mehlman, who has been active among Greater Hartford’s Jewish agencies and organizations for nearly four decades. Debbie also enjoyed a 40-year career working in…
