Jewish Community Relations Committee

By Amy Melnick-Scharf, JCRC Chair, Jewish Community Federation of Richmond and  Basya Gardenstein, JCRC Director, JCFR This year’s legislative session provides us with much to learn...

By Basya Gartenstein, Director, JCRC Between Nov. 30 and Dec.1, 60 municipal leaders from Israel, the USA, and Europe gathered with 150 key representatives in...

By Basya Gartenstein, Director,  Jewish Community Relations Committee, JCFR In response to the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan, the Jewish Community Relations Committee (JCRC) of the...

By David Cohen Director – Jewish Community Relations Jewish Community Federation of Richmond Much has been made about the recent Super Bowl ad featuring Bruce Springsteen and...

The recent controversy over Whoopi Goldberg’s comments regarding Jews and race – along with the Jewish communal reaction – is as much about the...

By Basya Gartenstein, Director, Jewish Community Relations Committee The Federation’s Jewish Community Relations Committee worked with the Weinstein JCC to host the German Consul General,...

By Basya Gartenstein, Director, Jewish Community Relations Committee, JCFR Shalom, as of August 1, it has been my privilege to serve the Richmond Jewish community...

By Larry Goldman, JCRC Education committee co-chair Our K-12 students in both public and private schools have seen a rise of antisemitic encounters in the...

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Anti-Semitism has recently come under fire and just his year two alternative definitions have been released. ...

By David Cohen Director Jewish Community Relations, JCFR Over the past several months the Jewish community has been struggling with how to best respond to both...