Bryan Turkel is a new addition to our Federation team in the role of Assistant Director of Leadership Development. Read about his Jewish journey and his excitement to share what he has learned along the way.
This past December, I had the privilege of traveling to Brazil with twenty Jews of Color on an eight-day trip hosted by the American Jewish…
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Arriving at the Havana airport is like landing in a new world. A wave of warm air, a winding terminal with fluorescent lighting, and dozens…
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We are seeing a terrifying rise in anti-Semitism across our nation. With each incident, our communal heart aches for the victims and their families — our fellow Jews in pain. When any Jew is hurt — in any community, anywhere in the world — we are all hurt. It is yet another scary time in history when our people are faced with adversity simply for being who we are.
It had been two weeks in Vilnius, Lithuania, and we were sitting in a circle, situated among insects and pointed grass. Silent tears crept from…
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The Jewish Federation’s Global Teen Twinning Program is the largest student delegation program in the Jewish world. Every year, hundreds of students in 8th-11th grades…
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A celestial soundscape, a dance for rain, the scent of s’mores. These were a few of the diverse possibilities of The In/Between, NuRoots’ first ever…
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Almost one year ago, on a quiet Saturday morning, Pittsburgh’s Jewish community suffered the most brutal anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history when a gunman opened…
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If there’s one thing that gets L.A.’s Jewish community excited, it’s great food. For Rosh Hashanah, it’s anything that satisfies the sweet tooth. We’ve compiled…
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Shabbat is a universal language — one that transcends oceans, food, and culture — and gently weaves Jewish roots together. I discovered this phenomenon after staffing…
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