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New York – Sept. 18, 2024 – Plaza Jewish Community Chapel invites all members of the New York Jewish community seeking to mark the first anniversary of October 7 to visit for quiet reflection and to light yahrzeit candles for lives lost on and since that tragic day. “As we individually and collectively acknowledge […]....
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New York – Sept. 12, 2023 – Stephanie Garry, a longtime Jewish communal leader locally, nationally and globally — and a staunch advocate for the elevation of Jewish women as social change makers — has been named President of Elluminate. Garry, who served as Vice President since 2021, succeeds Rachel Weinstein and will serve […]....
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New York – August 23, 2023 – Plaza Jewish Community Chapel (PJCC) is the first funeral chapel in New York City to receive a credential from SAGE, the country’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTQ+ older people and advocating for their interests. A SAGECare credential represents that an organization’s […]....
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Funding Partnership will Support and Grow the Shomer Collective’s What Matters Program New York – May 23, 2023 – Plaza Jewish Community Chapel (PJCC) today announced a three-year partnership with Shomer Collective to support its What Matters: Caring Conversations About End of Life program. The partnership includes a grant that will support the […]....
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New York – May 15, 2023 – The podcast of Plaza Jewish Community Chapel, Exit Strategy, won two major awards from the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) at the 29th Annual Communicator Awards. Exit Strategy, hosted by Stephanie Garry, Plaza’s Executive Vice President of Communal Partnerships, debuted its first episode in 2022 […]....
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He was just two years old in the early 1990’s when his family immigrated from Kyrgyzstan to New York. Yevgeniy “Eugene” Duvidzon doesn’t remember much from those early days. That is, other than the time right about then when he ripped a pepper from a vine, chomped on it as astonished relatives watched, and […]....
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Four Jewish Organizations Partner to Widen Use of the Sacred Practice and Elevate End-of-Life Conversations New York — March 7, 2023 — The first-ever Reform Chevra Kaddisha in New York City has been established by a consortium of four Jewish organizations, a development that officials said will open the sacred end-of-life practice to a […]....
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Nov. 23, 2022 — Ethan Horwitz, a shareholder at Carlton Fields in New York who has served on numerous local, national and global non-profit boards, is the new Board Chair of Plaza Jewish Community Chapel. Horwitz has been a Plaza board member since 2010 and most recently served as Vice Chair. He succeeds […]....
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July 21, 2021 – Funerals are notoriously expensive and often loaded with unexpected fees. They come at a time when people are at their most vulnerable, intimidated and perhaps unable to make judicious decisions amid their grief. Consequently, many bereaved family members make costly mistakes and find themselves at the mercy of funeral homes […]....
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May 7, 2021 – We meet how and whichever way we can, to celebrate or mourn, and everything in between A rabbi I work with – who often officiates at funerals – told me the other day what he’s toting around in the back of his car. Random information? Far from it, because that snapshot […]....
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