Report of the President – 2017 Annual Meeting
In Pirkei Avot (2:21) Rabbi Tafron teaches us: “Lo alecha ham'lacha ligmor, v'lo atah ben chorin l'hibatel mimena,” – “You are not expected to complete the task, nor are you free to desist from it [avoid it].”
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By: Ethan Fleischer
When talking to high schoolers, the phrase "community service" seems to have a negative connotation sometimes. Something about taking time away from our busy, fun summer schedules just doesn't appeal to most people. That being said, I've decided to spend the first cou…
By: Megan Maurer
Greg and I have just returned from a 10-day journey to Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. It was a trip of discovery, enlightenment and, of course, difficult moments in Poland.
Nothing could have prepared me for Majdanek and Auschwitz. The sheer scale and efficiency of the …
The year was 1939. The World’s Fair had begun in New York City, and in celebration, an open water swim from Indiana to New York and back was announced. Twenty-five teenage boys and girls from Indian…
There have been Fogles in Indianapolis almost as long as there’s been a Jewish community in Indianapolis—the first Jews settled here in 1849, and the Fogle family arrived from Eastern Europe in the early 1900s. Native Hoosiers David Fogle and his future wife Libby were born in the …
