04/15/2015
Tags: Beit Shean, Israel, Blog, Holidays, Volunteer, Passover
It really is no secret that observing the dietary laws of Passover in the United States is somewhat of a chore and not exactly easy. Passover in Israel is a completely different story. For the most part, the grocery stores and restaurants do all the work for you and it is much harder to break the laws of Passover in Israel than it is to keep them.
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04/15/2015
Tags: Beit Shean, Women, Israel, Blog, Holidays, Volunteer
Mabel spent most of her life donating her time to charity. She volunteered with a variety of organizations, in Cleveland and beyond. At 75, she had slowed down a bit but her interest in doing good never changed.
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04/14/2015
Tags: Holidays, Federation, Blog
Passover and Easter are intimately intertwined in our history as the Last Supper was actually a Seder.
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04/09/2015
Tags: Beit Shean, PR, Israel, Blog
If someone told me a year and a half ago that I would move to Israel for 10 months, I am pretty confident I would not believe them.
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04/06/2015
Tags: PR, Events, Teens, Holidays
CLEVELAND – 1,100 Holocaust survivors call Cleveland home. Join our community as we honor these survivors and remember those who perished in the Holocaust at the Jewish Federation of Cleveland and the Kol Israel Foundation’s Yom Hashoah V’Hagvurah on Wednesday, April 15 from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. at Green Road Synagogue, 2437 S. Green Road in Beachwood. This annual event is free and open to the public.
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04/06/2015
Tags: Arts, Blog, Federation
Maria Mandel was the SS commander of the women's camp at Auschwitz- Birkenau.
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04/03/2015
Tags: Advocacy, Federation
The Jewish Federations of North America Urges Caution and Congressional Review of Any Iran Deal
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04/02/2015
Tags: Passover, Holidays, Federation, Blog
Passover and Easter are intimately intertwined in our history as the Last Supper was actually a Seder.
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04/02/2015
Tags: Israel, Events, Holidays, Arts, Overseas, Video
You don’t have to travel far to hear the music of the world. Experience the multi-cultural sounds and entrancing fusions of Hebrew, Arabic and Ethiopian with a full-length concert by The Idan Raichel Project at this year’s Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day) celebration on April 23!
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04/01/2015
Tags: Overseas, Partners, Israel, Passover, Holidays
Dozens of Jews from war-torn eastern Ukraine who will be immigrating to Israel in the coming days celebrated the upcoming holiday of Passover at a simulated seder (ritual meal) held at The Jewish Agency for Israel's refugee center outside the city of Dnepropetrovsk Sunday evening (March 29). The celebrants included seven children between the ages of two and ten, who learned about the holiday for the first time.
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