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Fairfield College Preparatory Academy in Fairfield, Connecticut, as captured in 2018. (Google Maps)
April 4, 2026, 6:46 am
Connecticut school punishes students for antisemitic posts against hockey rivals
Fans of Catholic school’s team wrote, ‘Win or lose we booze, and at least we’re not Jews,’ and called the New Canaan team, ‘Jew Canaan,’ on social media
By JTA
The entrance to Holy Land USA, a defunct religious theme park in Waterbury, Connecticut, that closed in 1984. (Cathryn J. Prince)
January 11, 2025, 5:52 am
A long-abandoned Christian theme park sits just off a US highway. Will it rise again?
Shuttered in 1984, Connecticut’s Holy Land USA is a crumbling hodgepodge of biblical settings that was also the site of a grisly 2010 murder; a local priest works for its resurrection
By Cathryn J. Prince
Hitler as a baby (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)
May 16, 2024, 6:34 am
Connecticut probes middle school teacher who showed photo of ‘cute’ baby Hitler
In separate incident, private school outside Atlanta comes under fire for asking students to rate the Nazi dictator ‘as a Solution Seeker’ and ‘as an Ethical Decision Maker’
By Andrew Lapin
Former Vice President Al Gore offers his condolences to Hadassah Lieberman during the funeral for her husband, former Sen. Joe Lieberman in Stamford, Connecticut, Friday, March. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)
March 30, 2024, 12:32 am
At funeral, Joe Lieberman eulogized as ‘mensch’ committed to his Jewish faith
Stamford, Connecticut synagogue packed with mourners, including Al Gore, for four-time senator and first Jewish candidate for vice president on a major party ticket
By AP
Connecticut College. (Courtesy)
June 10, 2023, 7:18 pm
Connecticut College taps interim head mired in antisemitism scandal
Jewish students fume at pick after previous president quit in March for holding event at golf club with an alleged antisemitic and racist history
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: Participants dressed as witches ride paddleboards during the Medford Lakes Lions Witches Paddle Halloween event on October 22, 2022, in Medford Lakes, New Jersey. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
May 28, 2023, 5:03 am
400 years later, US state of Connecticut exonerates 12 ‘witches’
Lawmakers declares victims — 11 of whom were hanged — as innocent and decries their 17th-Century verdicts as ‘miscarriage of justice’
By AFP
Connecticut College students protesting against their school's president, Katherine Bergeron, who had been scheduled to speak at a venue with an antisemitic and racist history. (Courtesy of Hannah Foley/The College Voice)
March 25, 2023, 4:01 am
Connecticut College head quits over planned event at golf club with antisemitic past
Katherine Bergeron had faced mounting protests and school faculty passed a vote of no confidence in her leadership
By Andrew Lapin
Artist Mia Schon finishes a mural in one of the activity rooms of the Hole In the Wall Gang Camp, March 2, 2023, in Ashford, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton Robb)
March 22, 2023, 4:38 am
Paul Newman’s camp for sick kids rises from the ashes
Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for seriously ill children, founded by late American actor, reopens in $4.5 million rebuild following devastating 2021 blaze
By Pat Eaton-Robb
People line the street outside of the funeral of Elan Ganeles, 27, a dual US-Israeli citizen from West Hartford, Connecticut, in Raanana, March 1, 2023. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)
March 2, 2023, 4:42 am
At US-born terror victim’s funeral, bittersweet memories eclipse calls for revenge
Friends, family and others pack Ra’anana cemetery, recalling Elan Ganeles as ‘goofy’ and ‘annoying,’ but in a good way, while a far-right government minister vows to avenge death
By Orly Halpern
Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court to testify during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn., September 22, 2022. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File)
October 12, 2022, 11:49 pm
Alex Jones ordered to pay almost $1 billion to victims of his Sandy Hook lies
Testifying during the trial, conspiracy theorist acknowledges he was wrong about school shooting, but both in the courtroom and on his show he has remained defiant
By Dave Collins
Steven Hoffenberg, left, is escorted by FBI agents in a Little Rock, Ark. parking garage after turning himself in, Feb. 15, 1996. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
August 26, 2022, 8:33 pm
Man found dead in Connecticut confirmed to be Ponzi schemer and Epstein mentor
Medical examiners identify Steven Hoffenberg, whose decomposing body was found in an apartment after a week; officials waiting on toxicology results for cause of death
By Dave Collins
Steven Hoffenberg, left, is escorted by FBI agents in a Little Rock, Ark. parking garage after turning himself in, Feb. 15, 1996. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
August 26, 2022, 9:42 am
Police suspect man found dead was Ponzi schemer and Epstein mentor Hoffenberg
Unidentified decomposing body found in Connecticut apartment earlier this week had been dead for at least seven days, police say
By Dave Collins
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont delivers the State of the State address during opening session at the State Capitol, on Wednesday, February 9, 2022, in Hartford, CT. (AP/Jessica Hill)
February 15, 2022, 7:15 pm
Connecticut governor leading fintech, business delegation to Israel next week
Ned Lamont, who sees the Nutmeg State turning into the Start-Up State, will meet with Bennett, Herzog, Lapid and Israeli entrepreneurs during five-day trip
By Lazar Berman
The Bolton family (left to right): Carol, Matilde, John, Judy, and Harold, circa 1966. (courtesy, Judy Bolton-Fasman)
October 10, 2021, 2:02 am
Author boldly goes against her dead father’s wishes to uncover his true identity
In her new memoir, Judy Bolton-Fasman investigates lifelong questions on the strange union between her assimilated American dad and her much-younger mom, a volatile Cuban refugee
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A view of the Storrs campus at Connecticut University (YouTube screenshot)
May 1, 2021, 10:58 am
‘I don’t hate Jews, I’m critical of them’: US student held for swastika graffiti
Kristopher Pieper accused of daubing hate symbol on campus building opposite Jewish organization; cites anti-circumcision stance as a motive in 10-page ‘apology’ letter
By Pat Eaton-Robb
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