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Unknown vandals overturned about 40 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Hartford, Conn. The damage at the Congregation Ados Beth Israel Cemetery took place sometime between Oct. 12 and Oct. 19, according to the Associated Press. The attack was discovered by a man who regularly visits the grave of his son, who was killed while…
There’s a happy ending for a kosher-food melodrama that played out in West Hartford, Conn., this week. After the local Waldbaum’s was sold by owner A&P to an outfit called Big Y Supermarkets, local news outlets reported that Big Y might jettison kosher food from the rechristened store. “Waldbaum’s Closing Creates Concerns About Kosher in…
The Connecticut company that was the site of a horrific workplace shooting yesterday is owned by a prominent Jewish family with a long history of charitable giving, according to the The New York Times. Hartford Distributors, one of Connecticut’s largest distributors of beer and wine, was founded in 1944 and bought soon after that by…
