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05/20/2020

248 Virtual Global Summit Offers Information on Community Initiatives

Tags: Federation, Blogs, Israel, Overseas, Young Adults

248 Virtual Global Summit Offers Information on Community Initiatives

The first 248 Virtual Global Summit on May 17 highlighted community initiatives from North America, Europe and Israel.

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05/18/2020

Clevelanders Offer COVID-19 Advice to St. Petersburg

Tags: Federation, Blogs, Overseas

Clevelanders Offer COVID-19 Advice to St. Petersburg

A longstanding partnership with St. Petersburg has put the Jewish Federation of Cleveland in Beachwood in a position to help its Russian sister city navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.

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04/29/2020

WATCH: Lior Balavie: Live from Beit Shean Yom Ha'atzmaut Concert

Tags: Federation, CRC, Israel & Overseas, Overseas, Israel, Live, Advocacy

WATCH: Lior Balavie: Live from Beit Shean Yom Ha'atzmaut Concert

Lior Balavie and friends perform a virtual concert from Beit Shean, Cleveland’s sister city in Israel on Yom Ha'atzmaut 2020.

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04/28/2020

WATCH: Yom Hazikaron Virtual Ceremony

Tags: Federation, CRC, Advocacy, holiday, Holidays, Israel, Israel & Overseas, Overseas, Live

WATCH: Yom Hazikaron Virtual Ceremony

We virtually honored those who lost their lives protecting the State of Israel and civilian victims of terror for Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day.

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04/28/2020

Northeast Ohioans Remember Fallen Soldiers, Israel’s Wars

Tags: Federation, Blogs, Advocacy, Israel, Overseas

Northeast Ohioans Remember Fallen Soldiers, Israel’s Wars

Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of Israel’s wars were remembered in a somber virtual Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s Yom Hazikaron commemoration April 27 that featured the lighting of candles, songs and prayers and speeches.

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04/27/2020

“Farewell. I Lived Among You, As a Wildflower”

Tags: Federation, Israel, Overseas, Advocacy

“Farewell. I Lived Among You, As a Wildflower”

Li-or Gersht, our community shlicha (Israeli emissary), shares a personal reflection on what Yom Hazikaron (Israel's Memorial Day) means to her.

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04/08/2020

24 Hours For the New Normal in St. Petersburg

Tags: Federation, Russia, Overseas

24 Hours For the New Normal in St. Petersburg

The staff at the Yesod in St. Petersburg, Russia had 24 hours to adjust to a new way of working after the Coronavirus struck their Jewish community.

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04/02/2020

Watch: Prepping for Passover: Charoset Recipes From Three Continents

Tags: Federation, Live, Women, Israel & Overseas, Overseas, Russia, Israel, Passover, Holidays

Watch: Prepping for Passover: Charoset Recipes From Three Continents

A global cooking demonstration of charoset to prep for Passover from Cleveland's sister cities of St. Petersburg, Russia and Beit Shean, Israel.

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03/04/2020

The History of Soviet Jews in Cleveland

Tags: Federation, Russia, Russian, Education, Overseas

The History of Soviet Jews in Cleveland

Cleveland's Jewish community played an active role helping Soviet Jews emigrate from the Soviet Union and resettle in the United States, and especially in Cleveland, from the 1960s to the 1990s.

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02/20/2020

Far From Russia, A Place To Be Comfortably Russian

Tags: Federation, Blogs, Russia, Russian, Women, Volunteer, Publications, Advocacy, Education, Overseas

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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