Southern New England Jewish Ledger
Greenberg Center launches genocide and Holocaust education initiative
March 12 Symposium will feature Rwanda President Paul Kagame By Cindy Mindell WEST HARTFORD – In 1979, the first academic…
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Congregation Agudas Achim turns 125
By Cindy Mindell WEST HARTFORD – Congregation Agudas Achim Anshe Sfard, “a group of brothers, people of Sepharad,” was founded…
New Israel studies institute launched in Washington, D.C.
By Sean Savage/JNS.org In response to the Jewish community’s concern with the growth of anti-Israel bias and pro-Palestinian sympathies on…
BY THE NUMBERS: New study reveals more ghettos and death camps than previously thought
(JNS.org) A new study released by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shows that as many as 42,500 ghettos and concentration…
Hagel and Israel: Looking back, looking ahead
By MAXINE DOVERE/JNS.ORG WASHINGTON, DC – For former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel, who came under heavy criticism from some Jewish…
Author's Corner: Book sheds new light on FDR’s opinions about Jews
Special to the Ledger President Franklin D. Roosevelt privately wanted to restrict the number of Jews entering some professions and…
Harry Romanowitz was a pediatrican and mohel
Harry S. Romanowitz MD, pediatrician, mohel and dedicated ember of the Stamford Jewish community, suffered a severe hemorrhagic stroke but…
Sara Dratch, former Stamford Rebbetzin
Sara Lamm Dratch, wife of Rabbi Mark S. Dratch, Executive Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of America, has died…
