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Remember Project Students Lead the Way at Ashley Hall

This spring, as Ashley Hall’s campus bloomed with flowers, a new profusion of daffodils rose triumphantly near the Rutledge Avenue fence. Planted in December as part of The Daffodil Project, which aspires to build a worldwide Living Holocaust Memorial by planting 1.5 million daffodils in m…

JDC Responds to COVID-19 Surge in India

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 29, 2021 –The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), in coordination with the Indian Jewish community and its local partner SEWA Cooperative Federation, is responding to the devastating COVID-19 surge in India by deploying ventilators to hospitals …

Local Teen Shares How Ann Fields, Holocaust Survivor, Inspires Her

Sophie Levenson particiipated in the first cohort of the Charleston Jewish Federation REMEMBER Project. This group of teens is committed to bringing Holocaust education and genocide awareness resources to their schools and communities. Each year, they have the opportunity to meet local Holoc…

Yom HaShoah: Charleston's Holocaust Remembrance Program 2021

 

Every year, the Charleston Jewish community honors its commitment to preserving the memory of the Holocaust. This year there are a variety of virtual opportunities for you to participate in to remember and honor the victims of the Holocaust.

 

 

Charleston Jewish Federation’s REME…

Grinspoon Foundation Wins Jewish Funders Network's 2020 Shapiro Prize

Jewish Funders Network awarded its 2020 Shapiro Prize for Philanthropic Collaboration to the Harold Grinspoon Foundation (HGF) during JFN’s international conference, which is being held virtually.

While best known for its popular PJ Library program of distributing free books to Jewish…