Shana Tova and blessed Rosh Hashanah! Today, on October 2, at sunset, we begin celebrating Rosh Hashanah—the Jewish New Year. This holiday symbolizes hope for a new beginning, deep reflection, and spiritual renewal. This is a time to review the past year’s deeds, evaluate our goals, and strive for a better, kinder, and more just…
This summer, the Liepāja Theater are working on the opening production of their 118th season – Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett’s Diary of Anne Frank, directed by Laura Groza, who has called the play’s genre ‘letters to the future’. The production is financially supported by the Uniting Foundation. Anne Frank was born in 1929 in a Jewish…
In the summer of 2024, important repair works were completed at the Memorial for the Jews of Liepāja, Victims of the Holocaust, in Šķēde. As the Memorial is about to turn 20 years old, it has been repaired, restored and maintained, and the Alley for the Righteous Among the Nations has been landscaped. The improvements were supported…
In 2024, the Uniting Foundation are launching their donation campaign Open Your Heart and Help Seniors Thrive! with the purpose of alleviating the loneliness of senior citizens. Funds collected during the campaign will be used for a series of culture and leisure events for lonely seniors at the Uniting Care Social Center. The Center provides…
The Rīga Holocaust Memorial (on Emīlijas Benjamiņas Street, formerly called Gogoļa Street) has gone through impressive improvements. With the financial support of the Uniting Foundation and the Latvian Jewish Community Restitution Fund, the landscape around the Memorial has been improved, and new names of Saviors have been added to the Monument for Žanis Lipke…
On a pleasantly warm Saturday night, seniors of the Uniting Care Social Center went to the Mikhail Chekhov Rīga Russian Theatre to see Cancún, a play by famous contemporary playwright Jordi Galcerán. ‘I had not been to the theater in a long time,’ Irina admits, ‘and this night brought a lot of joy and cheer….