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…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn By Debby Block Hanoch Piven is an award-winning illustrator, educator, and advocate of creativity. As part of the celebration of Israel’s 75th birthday, Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte is proud to bring acclaimed Israeli…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn National Library Week 2023, April 23-29, will be celebrated with the theme “There’s More to the Story.” First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation’s…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn By Ken Garfield Charlotte’s Jewish community will come together in late April to honor, on Yom Ha-Zikaron, those who gave their lives to establish and defend the State of Israel. We then commemorate what…

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Washington, D.C., March 23, 2023  ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, released today, shows disturbing levels of antisemitic incidents reported in North Carolina, with a 30 percent increase in 2022. Nationally,…

By Andrew Lapin Facebook Twitter LinkedIn March 14, 2023 (JTA)  A Holocaust-themed novel by bestselling author Jodi Picoult was among dozens of books removed from a South Florida school district library’s circulation last month, in the latest…