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Memorial Day, May 31, 2021 A shared message from: Rabbi Irving A. Elson, CAPT, CHC, USN (Ret), vice president, JWB Jewish Chaplains Council® Doron Krakow, president and CEO, JCC Association … Continued
Grinspoon Foundation’s JCamp 180 Awards Grants to 25 JCC Day Camps Monies will fund physical improvements to enhance camper experiences NEW YORK—Twenty-five Jewish Community Center (JCC) day camps recently were … Continued
By Rabbi Irv Elson I wrote this short blog but a few hours after completing what was perhaps one of my most meaningful scuba dives. It has been more than … Continued
JCC Association Adds Two Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Professionals to Staff Charged With Advancing and Augmenting the Movement’s Accessibility and Inclusion Work NEW YORK — JCC Association of North America has hired … Continued
Hamas’ terror campaign from Gaza during the last 11 days turned our attention, thoughts, and concerns to the people of Israel. The dramatic security headlines crowded out opportunities to consider … Continued
By Rabbi Doniel Z. Kramer, Ph.D. This week’s Torah portion (Numbers 4:21-7:89), which almost always follows the Festival of Shavuot, is called Naso—“to lift up” (Numbers 4:22), because it begins … Continued
The Right Call The rockets started falling on Monday. And then came reports of violent Arab mobs assaulting Jews and attacking synagogues and Jewish businesses in shared Arab-Jewish towns and … Continued
By Rabbi Sarah Schechter This week, we begin reading from Sefer Bamidbar (the Book of Numbers), and Parashat Bamidbar, meaning “in the wilderness,” (Numbers 1:1-4:20), which details the journeys of … Continued
By Mark S. Young May is Mental Health Awareness Month and it arrived just as many of us may be feeling, as organizational psychologist Adam Grant recently wrote, like we … Continued
By Isabel Mares As we watch springtime offer us its technicolor bounties, I recall the leafless trees and desolate flower beds of only a few months ago. I think about … Continued
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