NC Holocaust Education
JHNC has contracted with the NC Council on the Holocaust to add a component to…
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Jewish Congregational Histories Online!
The JHFNC is contributing its resources to an on-line Religion in North Carolina Digital Collection.…
Down Home: Digital Exhibit
JHFNC is happy to announce the birth of Down Home: A Virtual Museum on its…
A Slave Poet, a Jewish Professor at UNC-CH
And now, from the archives, comes a previously unknown essay by Horton, which sheds oblique…
Harry Golden Takes On The Seersuckered South
In this article from Charlotte NPR by Tom Bullock, the digital “Down Home” exhibit is…
Down Home: Cantata: Listen LIVE on The State of Things
Professor Eric Meyers, Composer Alejandro Rutty, and Conductress Lorena Guillen will be on The State…
Down Home: The Cantata is “Memorable, they say”
Triangle Jewish Chorale Presents a Memorable Panorama of Jewish Life in North Carolina By Ken…
Have a Ball at Purim!!
Purim is now most memorable as a family celebration, a raucous children’s party with creative…
An American Hanukkah
Hanukkah for us has become the Jewish Christmas, as Jews replicate the gift giving and…
Community Midrasha for Teens
Community Midrasha announces its 25th anniversary and new year offering exciting programs for 8th graders…
Summering in the North Carolina Mountains of Yesteryear
For those of us with memories of heading to upstate New York for summer camps…
May is Jewish American Heritage Month
Not widely known perhaps, but May is a time to celebrate our Jewish heritage in…
A NC Holocaust Victim
In remembering the Holocaust, North Carolinians may feel a special poignancy in knowing that one…
NPR Interview on Jewish texts
NPR, ‘A State of Things’ recently interviewed Rabbi Steve Sager of Sicha. Click here for…
Purim Spiels!
Purim is a holiday like none other in the Jewish calendar. It’s a time for…
Seek Information on Gertrude Weil
Our historian, Leonard Rogoff is working on a book about the Goldsboro resident, Gertrude Weil,…
Read Charlotte Observer Article on Down Home
Click here to read the review of Down Home at the Levine Museum of the…
Jewish Film Festivals!
Both the Triad and Charlotte are hosting Jewish Film Festivals beginning Feb. 25, 2012. In…
Sources for local challah
Smelling the fresh challah at the JCC in Durham got me thinking today. Where else…
Looking for a long weekend trip destination?
Check out the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia-over 25,000 sq. ft. of…
Food memories from our museum exhibit recipe cards
My father would make gefilte fish with his brothers. They also made kosher pickles in…
Hanukah Memories
I remember going to Jr. Congregation at Beth El Synagogue in downtown Durham from about…
Chanukah Handmade Gifts
Response to Chanukah presents-Rather than exchange bought presents each night we had one night when…
The Piyyut (Poem) Akdamut Milin: The Enigma and Perseverance of Tradition
In this article, that originally appeared at http://thetorah.com/akdamut-milin/, Duke Professor Laura Lieber gives a fascinating…