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04/21/2020

Watch: Yom Hashoah V'Hagvurah Commemoration

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Watch: Yom Hashoah V'Hagvurah Commemoration

Our community held a program for Yom Hashoah V’Hagvurah, a virtual commemoration of the Holocaust and heroism.

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04/17/2020

Chinese Community Donates Thousands of Masks to Area Hospitals, Organizations

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Chinese Community Donates Thousands of Masks to Area Hospitals, Organizations

Workers at Montefiore in Beachwood and Bellefaire JCB in Shaker Heights will be the recipients of 1,000 masks each on April 16 as volunteers in the Greater Cleveland Chinese community raised funds to purchase medical masks

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03/23/2020

Cleveland Students Creating the Art of Yom Hashoah

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Cleveland Students Creating the Art of Yom Hashoah

Students Middle and High School in Cleveland created original poems as well as visual arts pieces for the Yom Hashoah Creative Arts Contest

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02/20/2020

Far From Russia, A Place To Be Comfortably Russian

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Far From Russia, A Place To Be Comfortably Russian

Irina Parkman emigrated Russia and came to Cleveland in order to escape persecution. She is able to still be connected to her Russian heritage through a partnership with the Cleveland Public Library.

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02/05/2020

73rd Annual Meeting of the Community Relations Committee

Tags: Federation, CRC, College, Advocacy, Education, Leadership

The Jewish Federation of Cleveland will host a panel discussion on civility and discourse on college campuses at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Federation’s Community Relations Committee (CRC) and Sidney Z. Vincent Memorial Lecture.

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01/06/2020

New Yorkers Greet Clevelanders with Warm Welcome at 'No Hate. No Fear.' March

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New Yorkers Greet Clevelanders with Warm Welcome at 'No Hate. No Fear.' March

NEW YORK CITY – More than 100 Clevelanders were welcomed with shouts of joy and astonishment as they marched through Manhattan, joining more than 25,000 people in a “No Hate. No Fear.” march on Jan. 5.

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01/06/2020

Cleveland City Councilman Basheer Jones Presents Resolution in Solidarity with Jews Ahead of March

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Cleveland City Councilman Basheer Jones Presents Resolution in Solidarity with Jews Ahead of March

As people began to board buses at the Jewish Federation of Cleveland in Beachwood bound for the “No Hate. No Fear.” solidarity march in New York City at about 11:30 p.m. Jan. 4, Cleveland City Councilman Basheer S. Jones stopped by bearing a resolution decrying anti-Semitism.

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01/01/2020

Official Statement from Cuyahoga County Police Chiefs Association

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Official Statement from Cuyahoga County Police Chiefs Association

The following statement was issued by the Cuyahoga County Police Chiefs Association on January 1, 2020.

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12/31/2019

Reflecting On Violence Against Jews in New York

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We are outraged by yet another senseless, violent, anti-Semitic attack on an American synagogue, this time at the Chabad in Poway, California. This attack is a sad reminder of the threat that anti-Semitism and hate are to our world. Our thoughts and prayers are with the innocent victims, their families, and the Jewish community in San Diego.

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12/02/2019

A Lasting Friendship Through the Tragedies of the Holocaust

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A Lasting Friendship Through the Tragedies of the Holocaust

In the late 1940's, cousins Rachelle Malcmacher Korland and Anne Malcmacher Adelman; Fran Dorfsman Spike; Edie Miller Block; Ruth Bergrin Gordon; and Shirley Frum Cohen were born in Feldafing, the largest “Displaced Persons” (DP) camp in Germany created for Holocaust survivors. For nearly 70 years, these six women have remained friends. In fact, at least once a month, these Jewish Clevelanders get together for lunch, dinner, or just to talk.

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