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Meet Shaked and Michal, Our 2019-2020 Israeli Young Emissaries

Jewish Federation and Greater Hartford’s Jewish community are delighted to welcome our new Israeli emissaries, Shaked Buzaglo and Michal Hacmon! They are arriving on August 28… they can’t wait and neither can we! If you’d like to host them for a Shabbat dinner or for a longer visit, …

Bound Together

This Shabbat is Tisha B'Av, marking the demise of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem and calamitous events affecting the Jewish people over the last two millennia. This year, the fast and related restrictions are postponed until Sunday. The symbolism of the day is marked by contradict…

A Second Chance

Not all of us are able or ready to take advantage of the beauty and richness of our Jewish heritage and its traditions. We all move at our own pace, follow our unique inner voices and seek meaning in ways that we alone can own. This week's Torah portion, B'haalot'cha, asks the question, What…

Counting Our Progress

How do you transform a ragged mass of slaves escaping unimaginable tyranny into a functioning, viable society whose laws, principles and values would help form today's modern world? It all started in the desert, when Moses was commanded to organize this mass of people into groups and then co…

Federation Condemns Arson at New Haven Mosque

The Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Hartford strongly condemn the act of arson committed Sunday at the Diyanet Mosque in New Haven. Acts of violence against a religious or cultural group are never acceptable, and this cowardly act o…