In the summer of 1969, a year after Andy Warhol announced that everyone would have the chance to be “world-famous for 15 minutes,” Alan Cooper took the stage at the Woodstock festival in Bethel, N.Y.
Last week, eight local people sat around a table at the Jewish Family and Children’s Service offices . They all share a close connection to the LGBTQ community and want to become mentors to others in the Jewish community adjusting to life with a loved one who has come out.
The Jewish Learning Venture has received a Covenant Foundation grant to set up a national network intended to share innovative practices in Hebrew school.
With the help of videoconference technology, students at a Jewish day school in Yardley next fall will begin taking some of their science lessons from instructors all the way across the ocean at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.