Students at a Connecticut high school said they have been harassed because they are Jewish, News 12 Connecticut reported. At a school board meeting Monday night, dozens of Jewish students from Amity Regional High School stood up to express their concern over reports of anti-Semitism. They took to the lectern to share their experiences, using…
A Republican Senate candidate originally stood by the mailer he sent out that depicts his Jewish opponent eagerly clutching money, but the next day he apologized. Ed Charamut, running for Connecticut’s 9th District seat, wrote in an email to the Forward on Tuesday that the ad was meant to say that if elected, Democrat Matthew…
A campaign ad featuring a Jewish Senate candidate greedily clutching money has many calling out its overt anti-Semitic tone. In the ad is Rep. Matthew Lesser, a Connecticut Democrat who gave up his seat in Connecticut’s House to run for State Senate. The mailer was sent out by Republican Ed Charamut, a member of the…
The president of a Connecticut synagogue resigned his position on Sunday, one week after his status as a registered sex offender became widely known in his community, bringing a #Metoo-era quandary about repentance and disclosure to a small suburb of Hartford, Connecticut. In 2008, Jason Wasserman, now 53, went to meet with who he thought…
(JTA) — Swastikas were discovered carved into picnic tables in the Connecticut town of Ridgefield, which has been the site of similar incidents over the last 18 months. The swastikas were discovered last month, according to local reports. In January, five swastikas were found drawn outside the Masonic Lodge and Aldrich Museum. Swastikas and anti-Semitic…
(JTA) — Legislation that would require Holocaust and genocide education in Connecticut high schools starting with the coming school year unanimously passed the state legislature. The Connecticut House of Representatives on Monday voted 147-0 in favor of the bill. It had unanimously passed the Senate on April 24. The bill will now go to Democratic…
Rabbi Shaul Praver’s moment on the national stage was one he wished had never happened — chanting El Malei Rachamim, a Jewish prayer of mourning, at a nationally-televised vigil commemorating the life of his congregant Noah Pozner and more than 20 other children and adults gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut….
Henry Okololica survived the Holocaust, attended the March on Washington and led a Connecticut synagogue for four decades. He died at 103 on September 25. “God took care of me,” he once told the Connecticut Jewish Ledger in an interview, referring to the Holocaust. “I didn’t escape Germany to live my own life. I escaped…
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