JCRC Column: Deconstructing Springsteen – Jewish Inclusion from Shushan, to Egypt,...
By David Cohen
Director – Jewish Community Relations
Jewish Community Federation of Richmond
Much has been made about the recent Super Bowl ad featuring Bruce Springsteen and...
JCRC Column: Defining Antisemitism
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Anti-Semitism has recently come under fire and just his year two alternative definitions have been released. ...
Members of Commission to Combat Antisemitism Appointed
The Jewish Community Federation of Richmond and Richmond Jewish Community Relations Committee congratulate Samuel Asher, Executive Director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum, on being...
JCRC Column: Sharing Our Democracy
By David Cohen
Director - Jewish Community Relations
Jewish Community Federation of Richmond
With our recent inauguration just behind us, and the images and shock that we...
A Year of Promise, Opportunity, and Vigilance – Your JCRC in...
The year ahead holds many challenges for Jewish community relations work. The rise in Antisemitism has us all legitimately concerned - as does the...
How We Define Success and How We Define Community
One enduring aspect of our Jewish community reality in 2021 is a perceived sense of conflict and tension. It is often these concepts we...
Richmond-area religious, organization leaders express support to the Jewish Community,...
Editor’s note: The following statement was issued by the Federation on Jan. 17.
Richmond – This weekend, we watched the unfolding situation in horror at...
Leading, inspiring, and empowering
By Basya Gartenstein
Director, Jewish Community Relations Committee, JCFR
Shalom Jewish Community of Richmond.
The Jewish Community Relations Committee has been formulating plans for the years ahead...
Identity, race, and the importance of sharing our stories
The recent controversy over Whoopi Goldberg’s comments regarding Jews and race – along with the Jewish communal reaction – is as much about the...
Toward a Double Victory in Black-Jewish Relations: Collapsing the Lungs of...
Editor's Note: The following is a guest JCRC column by Allan-Charles Chipman, Executive Director of Initiatives of Change, USA , which is part of...
