Yad Vashem Summer Seminar: Guiding educators in teaching the Holocaust without...
By Ramona L. Brand, Director of Youth Learning, Temple Beth-El
On a sticky July evening, this summer in Jerusalem, I sat in a low-ceilinged meeting...
Leadership2Gether – Building our American and Israeli partnerships and family!
By Conor Shapiro
It was a great honor and a “heckuva” lot of fun to represent JCFR at the P2G Leadership 2Gether Retreat in Charleston,...
P2G Teen Trip to Israel
By Sara Rosenbaum, Chief Impact Officer, JCFR
July 17th finally arrived and after months of planning and fingers crossed that Covid would not interfere, two...
JNF USA – Focus on Education
By Alistair Bentley
Building meaningful connections between young Jewish Americans and Israel has never been more important than it is today.
Rising antisemitism, increased opposition to...
Life in Ukraine by a JDC insider
Editor’s Note: During the Ukraine Crisis, the JDC has distributed weekly emergency bulletins providing an ‘insider’s update” on current developments. This one from early...
חוויה – A Special, major life experience
By Benny Winkelmann
As we approach the end of the school year, I have spent some time reflecting on all I have learned. The irony...
Benny’s Israel Top 10 List
By Benny Winkelmann
I want to preface this article by saying I love all of these things and putting them in any order in an...
Key Facts About Israel
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The colors blue and white were chosen according to the colors of the ‘Tallit’ – the Jewish prayer shawl. The Star of David appearing...
Seeing firsthand ‘Kol Yisrael Areivim Zeh Lazeh”
Editor’s note: Two Richmond community leaders - Josh Goldberg and Robyn Galpern - traveled to Israel in late March as part of a Jewish...
A piece of me never left Ukraine’
By Allie Vornholt
Editor’s Note: Allie Vornholt traveled to Ukraine in May 2019 along with six other Susan and Mark Sisisky JDC Global Enrichment Fund...
