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Our REMEMBER Program's Holocaust Creative Arts & Writing Competition received entries from middle and high school students from across the Greater Charleston area. This year's theme was "Resistance". The 2017 winners will receive cash prizes thanks to the generous support of Homegrown Hos…
Jewish organizations, including JFNA, join a letter to Congress from religious groups urging the preservation of a law banning tax-exempt faith groups from endorsing candidates and political parties.
The Johnson Amendment is the current prohibition against charities participating or inter…
Sima Segal was born in 1919 in Piatra Neamt, Romania. At 17, she moved to Bucharest to earn money as a seamstress. Her two brothers, Rubin and Zalman, were taken off the streets and sent to camps in Transnistria. Sima barely survived the pogrom in Bucharest in 1941. Throughout WWII, her c…
The following is a note from Robyn Wittenberg Dudley, Volunteer, a member of the Summerville/North Area Jewish Community. You can stay up to date with happenings in the area on their website and Facebook page.
Shalom:
Happy Spring!! The Summerville Flowertown Festival is this weekend (…
The Charleston Lach
By: Ariela Davis
This article first appeared in Ami Magazine
Charleston, South Carolina is a small Southern city renowned for its history, charm and beauty. Tourists flock to tour this famous place where the first shot was fired in the Civil War, where the arc…