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Of Tears and Rainbows

Posted by: Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford on 5/31/2016
The quote came from an unexpected place - Ambassador James Joseph, a civil servant in service to four presidents and the former ambassador to South Africa. His father, a Protestant minister, used to say to him "the soul would have no rainbows if the eyes had no tears."

Who am I? Who are We?

Posted by: Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford on 5/19/2016
The Pew Research Center’s study of the American Jewish community “A Portrait of Jewish Americans” struck a chord when it was released in the fall of 2013. Whatever its methodological faults, it highlighted a Jewish community that has undergone (and is undergoing) significant change.