Category: Miscellaneous

JProStL Announcing 2023-24 Board

Randi Schenberg (Crown Center for Senior Living), past president of  JProStL, announced the new JProStL board for 2023-24. Board members include President – Rabbi Lori Levine (Congregation Shaare Emeth), Vice President – Rachel Andreasson (Temple Israel)...

Updates from Israel – May 2021

Below are comprehensive daily reports from the Jewish Federations of North America’s Israel team about what is happening on the ground in Israel. We will update with the latest information as it becomes available.   Friday, May 21, 2021 | 9:21 am Ceasefire...

Notice of Data Breach

August 7, 2020 Dear Community Member, We are writing to let you know about a data security incident that may have involved you and other members of your family’s personal Federation-related information. This might also involve data of minor children, if you should...

Now more than ever, we need to remember why we give

Sima and Michael Oberlander and one of their daughters and her friend volunteered picking food for Leket Israel in a field in Rishon LeTzion. Leket is the leading food rescue organization in Israel, provides food to 200 organizations that feed 175,000 needy Israelis...

Shaked Blog – March 2, 2020

Shalom everyone, Here is how my last week for my first 6 months here has been: I also had a long weekend, which I took pretty chill. On Friday I had a meeting with Cynthia and Guy at the Federation and this is pretty much what I did that day. On Saturday I went for a...

Shaked Blog – February 12, 2020

Hi everyone, My past weekend was pretty chill. On Friday I met Guy at the federation and we worked on our presentation for this Friday, about my Kibbutz and his Moshav.  After that we met Cynthia for lunch.  After the lunch I went to Shaare Emeth to organize stuff for...

Guy Blog – February 19, 2020

Hello everyone! I’d like to share with you all about my week. On Sunday I had Sunday school at both of my congregation – UH & BA. At BA I had a great activity about Israeli slang, the kids really liked it, they learned some new words and made some art. At UH...

Guy Blog – February 12, 2020

Hello everyone! I’d like to share with you all about my week. On Sunday morning I had Sunday school at UH. It was really fun. I did a program about colors in Hebrew by a nice story and a nice game, the kids really liked it. In addition to that we had a falafel program...

Shaked Blog – February 3, 2020

Hi everyone, Another week here flew by! On Friday I had a meeting at the federation with Guy and Cynthia and from there we went together to ice skating at Kiener plaza park. It was so much fun! It’s been a while since I’ve done the last time (4 years) and I really...