JFGI Connections

These are the voices that connect us as a Jewish community.

We are Walking in Your Footsteps

By Marla Wald

We are walking in your footsteps as we walk through the barracks where we were struck with the unimaginable horrors at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

We are walking in your footsteps as we stand over a sewer drain used to hide Jews escaping the ghetto in Warsaw.

We are walking in your …

The Turtle Resistance

The true story about a turtle that flew over a barbed-wired fence of a concentration camp.

By Max Newman

Earlier this week we visited the concentration camp of Majdanak just outside the city of Lublin, Poland and to be very honest, until seeing its name on our itinerary, I had never hear…

JEW Journey of Enlightened Wandering

By Daniel Reyzman

What is a Jew? A question that has plagued me for years. In People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn, the author gives words to a feeling I never quite knew how to describe. I’m not this. She describes many of Jews defining themselves in comparison to another identity and not …

Reflections After Visiting Auschwitz Birkenau

Koach group at the gate to Auschwitz Birkenau

 

 

 

 

By Michael Kaplan

Here we are with the one blog post I didn’t want to write. Not that I don’t think it’s important. Not that I don’t have any thoughts. But I didn’t want to write this one. Let me explain that a bit.…

This October marks 14 years for Popsie’s Pantry

So much has changed since opening in 2010, when the pantry operated out of a small room the size of a closet and provided shelf stable foods to around 40 families. The impact was significant then, and as food insecurity rates increased significantly in Indianapolis (now 31 percent in Marion …