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Shoah Foundation Widens Its Mandate To Collect Testimonies About Contemporary Antisemitism, Too
By Grace Gilson (JTA), April 27, 2025 — For decades, the USC Shoah Foundation has amassed testimonies of Holocaust survivors, with the goal of preserving stories before they cannot be told firsthand. Now, with survivors dwindling, the organization founded by Steven Spielberg is expanding its mandate to collect testimonies from Jews about global antisemitism since…
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Nearly a Quarter of Americans Raised Jewish Have Left the Religion, Survey Says
By Grace Gilson March 26, 2025 (JTA) Almost one in four U.S. adults raised Jewish do not identify as religiously Jewish anymore, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center. The study, published Wednesday, surveyed “religious switching” around the world, and found that significant percentages of people raised in religious homes in the…
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A Lasting Legacy: How a Small Town Synagogue Endured — Its Impact Lives On
By Page Leggett This story originally appeared on Foundation For The Carolina’s storytelling website, Philanthropy FOCUS. Read the complete story: https://philanthropyfocus.org/bethisrael/ Years before a 60-year-old Jewish temple in Whiteville closed its doors in 2020, congregants devised a plan to share their assets When Jacob Steinberg – “Jackie” to everyone in his Whiteville, N.C., hometown –…
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Modern Day Maccabees: Honoring Rose Lubin and the Global Impact of the Israel-Hamas War
By Jessica Goldfarb, JFGC Communications Specialist As Jewish families across the world prepare to celebrate Chanukah this year, Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte is promoting a new World Zionist Organization booklet, 8 Nights 8 Heroes, designed to infuse the Festival of Lights with remembrance, purpose, and inspiring stories of “modern day Maccabees.” Each night of…
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Bal Tashchit and Beyond: The Environmental Impacts of Fast Fashion — A Hidden Crisis
By Lisa Shpritz The Charlotte Jewish News, November 2024 Fast fashion has transformed the way we consume clothing. Its business model focuses on rapidly producing trendy, inexpensive garments to meet high consumer demand. Recently, brands have been pumping out new collections at breakneck speeds. However, while this has made fashion more accessible, the environmental toll…
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Empty Chairs, Mirrors and Pomegranates: How Jews Are Bringing the Israel-Hamas War to Their Seder Tables This Passover
By Jacob Gurvis (JTA), April 19, 2024 — As Jews around the world read the haggadah at their seder tables every year, they encounter a passage instructing them to see themselves as if they personally left Egypt. This year, some of them will also have on their seder tables a symbol of the perseverance of…
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Beyond the Pink Runway: A Night of Empowerment and Elegance
By Shira Firestone April 2024 The inaugural Beyond the Pink Runway Breast Cancer Fundraiser, held on March 2, at Queens University of Charlotte’s Sandra Levine Theatre, was a resounding testament to the strength, resilience, and beauty of young women battling breast cancer. This landmark event benefited the Sandra Levine Young Women’s Breast Cancer Program at…
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When Dr. Martin Luther King and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Taught My Dad to Pray With His Feet
Rabbi Mordecai Rubin (Courtesy Shuly Rubin Schwartz) January 14, 2024 (JTA) — Abraham Joshua Heschel, whose 50th yahrzeit we marked this past year, was for almost 30 years a member of the faculty at The Jewish Theological Seminary, which I lead. There he inspired many to incorporate traditional Jewish learning, observance and values into their…
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Jewish Groups Launch Relief Effort for Maui as Island’s Jews are Among the Evacuated
By Ron Kampeas August 11, 2023 (JTA) — Jewish groups in the United States and in Hawaii are launching relief efforts following the devastation caused by wildfires that have killed more than 50 people so far. The wildfires have all but destroyed the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, which Hawaii’s Jewish governor, Josh…
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