IM Issue 11 – February 2008

Israel Matters! / Uncategorized

IM Issue 11 – February 2008

Jewish Agency: Trying to Bring All Iranian Jews to Israel

The Jewish Agency is working to bring all of Iran’s remaining 25,000 Jews to Israel, an official told The Jerusalem Post as 40 immigrants landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport. The December 25th arrival was the largest single group of Iranian immigrants brought by the agency to start new lives in a country that Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has vowed to wipe off the face of the earth.
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Israel Matters! / Uncategorized

IM Issue 10 – January 2008

Israel Insists That Iran Still Seeks Nuclear Weapons

Israel said recently that it remained convinced that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons and that it had probably resumed the weapons program an American classified report said was stopped in the fall of 2003. Israel believes Iran will have the resources to create a nuclear weapon by 2010 despite the U.S. intelligence report that it was not building an atomic bomb, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said recently
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Odds & Ends

Free Access to Online Encyclopaedia Judaica

THIS LINK IS NO LONGER ACCESSIBLE DUE TO LACK OF FUNDING! DECEMBER 25, 2015 ENCYCLOPAEDIA JUDAICA: ALL NEW AND ONLINE Excellent Tool for Judaic Research  The Department of Jewish Education (DJE) Library of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven is proud to be one of the first Judaic institutions to offer public access to the all-new second edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica, thanks to a grant from The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. This most important Judaic reference work is now available in two formats, to meet everyone’s needs and personal study preferences. The public is welcome to use the printed encyclopedia at the DJE Library located at the JCC of Greater New Haven, and to access the online e-book encyclopedia via the Internet.  To link to the Encyclopaedia Judaica: click on Encyclopaedia Judaica. To obtain the password: SEND AN E-MAIL TO: EJPASSWORD@jewishnewhaven.org     You must include your name and…

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President's Message

February 2008: Going Ga-Ga on Shabbat…

Going Ga-Ga on Shabbat…       I know a lot of Jewish people. Some call themselves Reform, some Reconstructionist, some Conservative, some Orthodox and some None of the Above. We Jewish people live in interesting times. The issues confronting our community differ markedly from the issues dealt with by our grandparents and great-grandparents. (more…)

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Rabbi's Corner

The Source

I recently reviewed The Source by James Michener at a well-attended Men’s Club Breakfast (on December 25th) and I thought I might use my new blog to open a discussion on the book and related matters. (more…)

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Book of Memories

Evelyn Heller

    Evelyn Heller was a beloved mother and friend.  She was born here in New Haven, the daughter of two Russian Jewish immigrants.  She was raised with her sister, Charlotte, and went to school here and then attended what was then Larsen Junior College, what is not Quinnipiac University.  She was a bookkeeper for the family business, the Palace Laundry, and then worked at the Hamden Chronicle and eventually as secretary to the Medical Director of  Parkview Medical Recovery Center.  
    She married Roger and they had a strong and wonderful marriage for fifty-two years until he passed away in 1995.  The family won’t forget their big 50th anniversary party at Colonial Tymes. (more…)

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Odds & Ends

ZAP! POW! BAM!

It was 1940 and the Jews were dying. Shot down on cobblestone streets, starved in barbed- wire enclosures, frozen in winter snows, racked with disease. All seemed lost. Then, from up in the sky, like a bird, like a plane, came Superman. With ridiculous ease, he captured the tyrants Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. ”I’d like to land a strictly non-Aryan sock on your jaw,” the Man of Steel told the FŸhrer. He settled for delivering both men to the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. (more…)

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Book of Memories

Roger Heller

    Roger Heller was a beloved husband, father, brother and friend.  Roger lived in New Haven all his life, and he knew every inch of this town, from one end to the other.  It was his world.  He knew the business world in this town and the sports and the people from the mayor to the dogcatcher.
    After high school he went to work as a salesman for a custom tailor.  He went all over, selling to the Fords and the Kennedys and people all over the country.  He was a great communicator and a great story-teller and he was interested in everything.  He could talk everyone’s language; he could talk to the elite and he could talk to the riffraff.  He was a character in the best sense of the word.   The strange thing was that he could talk to and be with anyone, but he was always still himself.  He wanted to know everything and he could learn from complete strangers. (more…)

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Board of Directors Resolutions

2007 BoD Resolutions

2007-Dec-18 - George Alexander made a motion to approve spending $1049.27 for the contract with the Greater New Haven Cemetery Association for maintenance of the Columbus Lodge Cemetery. Elliot Alderman 2nd the motion. The motion passed unanimously.  2007-Dec-18 - A motion was made to appoint Yaron Beitch to fill 2007-2010 director's position on the board. The motion passed unanimously.  2007-Nov-20 - A motion was made by Geoff Kanner to approve moving the Memorial board of the Jewish Home for Children, Beth Cantor 2nd the motion.  Discussion followed.  The motion passed unanimously. 2007-Nov-20 - Lew Abramson has resigned from the board.  A motion was made to accept Marty Laskin on the board.  Motion was passed unanimously. 2007-Nov-20 - Jessica Malkin made a motion to accept Michael Romeo and Faye Shephard as new members.  The motion passed unanimously. 2007-Nov-20 - The House Committee made a motion to propose expending up to $4000…

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