In Ukraine, Chanukah candles are needed for heat, not just light
Steve LipmanDec 22, 2022
In the days before Chanukah, which started Dec. 18, a few men and women from two Conservative institutions in Israel traveled to the small Jewish community in...
Before he was King, Charles was patron of Cracow’s JCC
Steve LipmanSep 22, 2022
The founder of one of the first US-style Jewish community centers in the former-communist Eastern Europe, formed after the Iron Curtain fell three decades ago, says the...
Greeting migrants
Steve LipmanSep 01, 2022
The first sight that many of the migrants who have arrived over the last few weeks at the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan after a long ride from the southern US...
NBA Draft — a Yeshiva player?
Steve LipmanJun 16, 2022
The National Basketball Association will hold its annual draft of college players this week. The talk in Jewish circles this year centers around one athlete and one...
Ukrainian Jewry: A glorious past — and the future?
Steve LipmanMay 12, 2022
The war in Ukraine, making refugees of millions of people from a country with a rich Jewish past, raises a question about Ukrainian Jewry’s future. What sort of Jewish...
Holocaust survivors: What do they see in Ukraine?
Steve LipmanApr 28, 2022
Like many Holocaust survivors who have been the subject of media interviews since the war in Ukraine began, focusing on their memories and their reactions to the latest...
Ukrainian refugee seders in Slovakia
Steve LipmanApr 21, 2022
No one who sat at the seder tables in the capital of Slovakia on the second night of Passover last week had to ask why that night was different from all other nights. Or...
Israeli clowns lighten the burden of the Ukrainian refugees
Steve LipmanApr 14, 2022
Ariel Keren, a social worker and actor who lives near Jerusalem, has brought his smile-inducing skills as a trained clown to “thousands” of children and countless...
Cross-border chesed
Steve LipmanApr 01, 2022
How much assistance can a JCC with 750 members, in US terms, says executive director Jonathan Ornstein — offer in a huge refugee crisis?
Refugee seders in Poland: ‘Next year in Ukraine’
Steve LipmanMar 31, 2022
In a normal year, the conference rooms and social hall of the Jewish Community Centre of Cracow, in the city’s historic Kazimierz district that is now the center of...
