Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community (FCJC) sponsored five Jewish community professionals to attend the Harold Grinspoon Foundation’s 2023 Life & Legacy Leadership Conference in Springfield, Massachusetts in early May. Joining FCJC’s Phil…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn By Juan Melamed BUENOS AIRES (JTA)  In its first-ever appearance in the tournament, Israel’s under-20 men’s soccer team advanced to the second round of the FIFA U20 World Cup with a last-minute goal against…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden unveiled a multifaceted and broad strategy to combat antisemitism in the United States that reaches from basketball courts to farming communities, from college campuses to police departments. “We…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn For Shavuot this year, I wanted to shake things up and try something unique. I was first introduced to this unusual combination of flavors at a little place in Matthews called Go Go Empanadas…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn By Mary Eshet It is easy to become distressed about increasing trends of antisemitism, but difficult to answer the question, what can we do? For high school students Rosie Smolowitz and Max Harr, the…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn bY Ben Sales (JTA) — Fighting between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza ended after five days, as a ceasefire took effect and appeared to hold late Saturday night. Over the course of…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn On February 19, 2023, the Foundation of Shalom Park Board of Directors participated in a discussion titled Imagining the Future of Shalom Park. They reflected on the founding principles of why Shalom Park was…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn By Amy Lefkof Singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, who died on April 25, 2023 at the age of 96, broke racial barriers in the 1950s. One of those barriers was his…