| Charter Oak Cultural Center |
| Program Name | Amount Requested | Program Description |
| $3,000 | Andrea Hodos gives a solo performance recalling the voyage of an American feminist traveling to Jerusalem to recover the tradition her family left behind. Through movement, characterization and spoken word, Andrea travels from the ancient study halls of the Rabbis to her own highly untraditional, traditional Jewish wedding.
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| Sukkot Celebration | $500 | Support to help build and decorate sukkah, which helps teach the greater community about Sukkot in particular and Judaism in general. This celebration entails the purchasing of paints and other craft materials for decorations, food for a community meal and the hiring of a Klezmer band. Members of the Jewish community join with members of the general community to celebrate the fall harvest provided by our own organic garden. It is a lovely, inspiring, education and fun evening. |
| Kristallnacht Remembrance | $1,000 | Annual Kristallnacht Remembrance commemorates those tragic nights in Germany when broken glass littered the streets and the Holocaust began. This event brings together individuals of many faiths and ethnicities in honoring those persecuted and lost and also celebrating the hope of the human spirit. Participants share a meal and conversation after the event. |
| To visit the Charter Oak Cultural Center website, click here. |
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| JFACT Fund |
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| Program Name | Amount Requested | Program Description |
| | In recent years, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement, a concerted and well financed campaign to delegitimize Israel has intensified across college campuses. Support a national campaign to neutralize the debate on Hartford area college campuses. |
| To visit the JFACT website, click here. |
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| Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies |
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| Program Name | Amount Requested | Program Description |
Dr. Seuss Goes to War: Holocaust Remembrance Day | | During the years before he became one of the world’s most beloved children’s book authors, Theodor Geisel (“Dr. Seuss”) began to voice his own deeply held personal convictions about racism and anti-Semitism. A lecture with Dr. Walter Metz, an expert on the WWII anti-Nazi propaganda of Ted Geisel, will expose this relatively unknown dimension of this famous artist to the community. |
| To visit the Greenberg Center website, click here. |
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| PJ Library Project |
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| Program Name | Amount Requested | Program Description |
Jewish Bedtime Stories | $3,000 | Jewish families in Greater Hartford with young children receive Jewish-content books and music at no cost on a monthly basis through the innovative PJ Library. No matter where they are on their Jewish journey, these families can connect with their Jewish heritage and enjoy family-friendly tools for learning more about Jewish traditions and family life.
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| To visit the PJ Library website, click here. |
