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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…

Federation held annual allocation meeting

The Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton held its yearly allocation meeting on November 17 to discuss the allocations for its member agencies. “This is always a very thoughtful meeting with many viewpoints shared through open discussion and this year, even on Zoom, was no different,” …

Federation Campaign spotlight: Spotlight on JFNA partners

The last issue of The Reporter featured an article about the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton’s allocation to the Jewish Federations of North America (view article here). Below is a look at how two of the programs offered by its partners help Jews in different parts of the globe.

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Rabbinical student to serve as TBE Oneonta’s spiritual leader

Third-year rabbinical school student Amelia Wolf is serving as the spiritual leader of Temple Beth El, Oneonta, this year. Wolf is taking part in the Gladstein Fellowship in Entrepreneurial Leadership, a joint project between Jewish Theological Seminary and United Synagogue of Conservative J…