Stories of Survival

“My little sister was loaded while still alive into a truck with corpses, and this was the last time I saw her.”  Betty Miatowitz, 92,...

Benny works with incredible teachers

By Benny Winkelmann Sometimes, I don’t know how to begin these articles. The fact that the Richmond community is interested in the goings on in...

P2G Teen Trip to Israel

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...

Here. Now.

  Editor's Note: The following Reflector column by Brad Kaplan was written after he co-led a recent four-day Jewish Community Federation of Richmond Solidarity Mission...

Life in Ukraine by a JDC insider

Editor’s Note: During the Ukraine Crisis, the JDC has distributed weekly emergency bulletins providing an ‘insider’s update” on current developments. This one from early...

Benny’s Israel Top 10 List

By Benny Winkelmann I want to preface this article by saying I love all of these things and putting them in any order in an...

Jewish National Fund’s Breakfast for Israel in Richmond

Do you enjoy bagels?  Do you love Israel?  If so, please join JURVA (Jewish National Fund USA, Richmond, VA) at JNF USA’s Breakfast for...

Seeing firsthand ‘Kol Yisrael Areivim Zeh Lazeh”

Editor’s note: Two Richmond community leaders - Josh Goldberg and Robyn Galpern - traveled to Israel in late March as part of a Jewish...

A life-changing summer camp Shlichut experience

Editor's Note: The following article and photos were featured in the July issue of "Currents," published by the Jewish Agency for Israel. In September,...

Lone Soldiers have a special love of Israel 

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...