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The Reporter matches matching grant for second year

By Reporter staff

The Reporter announced that it matched its $500 matching grant, raising more than $1,700. This is the second year the organization has received the grant, which is courtesy of the David and Virginia Eisenberg Fund. 

“We are thrilled that we more than made the grant aga…

Federation to host virtual tour of Auschwitz on Jan. 23

By Reporter staff

The Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton will host a live virtual tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp on Sunday, January 23, at 9:30 am. The program is offered in partnership with the Center for Holocaust Education of the East Valley Jewish Community Cente…

TC co-sponsor for “The Bible as a Resource for a Time of Crisis”

Temple Concord will co-sponsor the virtual lecture “The Bible as a Resource for a Time of Crisis” on Saturday, December 11, at noon. The lecture will be given by Rabbi Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Effie Wise Ochs Professor of Biblical Literature and History at Hebrew Union College – Jewis…

Chabad’s annual toy drive underway

Building on the success of previous years, the Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life at BU, along with the SDT sorority, is once again running a holiday toy drive dubbed “Light up a Life.” New toys of all kinds are being collected and will be distributed to children suffering with c…

Campaign 2022: End of year IRA donations

By Reporter staff

Shelley Hubal, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton, wants to remind people that they may be able to give a tax-free gift from their individual retirement accounts to the Federation. “This is the time of year that people are thinking about th…