Israel & Overseas

By Noa Amouyal While most kids receive a variety of fun knick-knacks and souvenirs after they attend Bar and Bat Mitzvah parties, those who celebrated...

By Sara Rosenbaum, Chief Impact Officer, JCFR July 17th finally arrived and after months of planning and fingers crossed that Covid would not interfere, two...

Editor's note. The Reflector spoke with Richmonder Stacie Stufflebeam recently about her three sons serving as Lone Soldiers with the IDF.  Several other Richmond...

By Tal Bahar, Community Shlicha Fifty-eight years of Assad family rule, an era, is over. One of the moments when, while the present was being written,...

The Jewish Community Federation of Richmond is excited to welcome Tal Bahar, our new community Shlicha (emissary) to Richmond.   She will spend a year-and-a-half building...

By Tal Bahar, Community Shlicha On the ninth day of the month Av, we mourned the destruction of the First Temple and the exile...

The following by JFNA is a June 14 Update on the Current Situation Past updates can be found here. The North Following an Israeli strike that killed Taleb...

 By Skip Kozakewicz, Reflector Editor Ephraim Seidman and his wife, Bunny Wilks, have devoted many years to raising guide dogs, and have a long and...

Israel and Overseas I applied for the P2G Southeast Fellowship program almost two years ago, but it was postponed because of COVID. Since I was...

By Avi Remetz, 2024 Sisisky Fellow    In November, I had the privilege of traveling to Tbilisi, Georgia, with the Sisisky Fellows and JDC Entwine...