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“Curiosity Over Assumptions” “Relationships Before Politics” “Plurality Over Parity” “Local Over International” “Respect for Self-Definition” “Safe Open Space” “Nimble and Responsive” These are the stated values of NewGround, a community-building organization that creates, connects and empowers Jewish and Muslim change-makers in America. NewGround works through a professional fellowship, high school leadership council and public programming.. Read more »
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“Last spring I found out that my father was not my biological father,” I told him, keeping the story as brief as possible.
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As a Black Jewish woman, it feels inevitable that whenever a book comes out about being Black and Jewish, someone’s going to tell me to read it. So when someone asked me to review Color Me In by Natasha Diaz, I was skeptical. Usually these books are not actually written for me they are written to. Read more »
Female Presidents of a Jewish Organization Reflect on Inclusivity
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As many in the United States celebrate the nation’s first female vice president, we have been lifted by a spirit of diversity, democracy and inclusiveness. Those same sentiments recently emerged within the Jewish Federation of Western Massachusetts, an organization that, for nearly a century, has been supporting communities locally, nationally, and worldwide. I recently interviewed eight former female presidents Donna Feldman, Susan Firestone, Betsy Gaberman, Suze Goldman, Sue Kline, Ronda Parish, Ann Pava and Diane Troderman who led the organization at various times between 1987-2019. These interviews culminated in a major community-wide virtual program, in which each president was in the spotlight for a few minutes to discuss her accomplishments.
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In Conversation with…community leader and philanthropist Ann Pava
We truly believe that sending children to Jewish day school is the most important decision a family can make.
In 2019, the Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy of Greater Hartford and the Hebrew High School of New England merged to create K-12 Orthodox Jewish day school in West Hartford. The merged school, renamed the New England Jewish Academy (NEJA), serves students in the Greater Hartford, Greater New Haven, and Greater Springfield communities .
Thanks to the vision and generosity of community leaders Ann and Jeremy Pava, New England Jewish Academy now offers a transformative, subsidized tuition program, The Pava Tuition Initiative, for all students from kindergarten through twelfth grade.