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Gifts from Below

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It was the day before Thanksgiving, and the basement of the Episcopal Church of St. Paul & St. James, a.k.a. the Olive Street Pantry, was buzzing. (more…)

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Demand and Supply

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The Jewish principle of tikkun olam—repairing the world—is the mission of Jewish Family Service of Greater New Haven. That world extends far beyond the region’s Jewish community, even though that’s where the organization’s work began. In 1881, as a wave of Russian Jews fled massacres at home and immigrated to New Haven, leaders in the […]

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