Jewelry designer and National Council of Jewish Women member Diane Katzman will open her studio to the public for NCJW’s Mother’s Day Open House from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 3. Guests can enjoy wine and snacks while browsing for Mother’s Day gifts...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 4, 2012
In 1979, Rachel Ilyashov's parents, Semyon and Alina, emigrated to the United States from Minsk, the capital of Belarus in what was then the Soviet Union. Jews were leaving the U.S.S.R. as quickly as they could to flee lives of constant persecution. Many...