admin | April 24, 2020
For in Your sight a thousand years are like yesterday that has passed, like a watch of the night. Psalms 90:4 Evangelical Christians from around the world sing and recite prayers for Israels safety
admin | April 24, 2020
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admin | April 22, 2020
Thousands of people lined up in just a few moments notice to donate plasma to possibly save the lives of critically ill COVID-19 patients.
admin | April 22, 2020
Food coverageis supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. Earlier this month, Jesse Bloom was supposed to cook two community seders in one week. Between Walnut Creeks Congregation Bnai Tikvah and Piedmonts Kehilla Community Synagogue, he would have fed around 275 people
admin | April 22, 2020
Historians tend to view Kristallnacht as the opening shot in the grand Nazi scheme to exterminate the Jews. During the anti-Semitic pogroms that erupted on November 9, 1938 the first act of organized violence carried out by the Nazis against the Jews as many as half of Germanys synagogues were destroyed To its great fortune, the synagogue of Lbeck was spared.
admin | April 22, 2020
Shelter-in-place has become the standard remedy to slow the spread of COVID-19. But what does shelter-in-place mean for people without a home in which to shelter? Family Promise of Greater Phoenix, an emergency shelter program for first-time homeless families, is attempting to grapple with social distancing constraints that, in practice, mean that the organization can no longer house families in churches, synagogues and mosques the way it normally does.
admin | April 22, 2020
At the beginning of March, 13-year-old Sam Kaplan and his family watched as events everywhere were canceled because of the coronavirus crisis. Sam, a student at The Rashi School in Dedham, had planned to have his bar mitzvah at Temple Aliyah in Needham on March 28. When the synagogue closed, his parents decided nothing would stop them from celebrating their sons special day.
admin | April 22, 2020
I wasnt expecting HBOs The Plot Against America, David Simons miniseries adaptation of the Philip Roth novel, to scar me the way it has. I work with news about the rise of anti-Semitism and hate crimes around the world on a daily basis. As an editor focused more on international coverage recently, here are some of the highlights from this past week or so: atorched synagoguein Russia, a Romanian priest who kind ofcomparedJews to the coronavirus anda neo-Nazi group run by a 13-year-oldthat planned to bomb a synagogue.
admin | April 22, 2020
During the coronavirus pandemic, many bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies in the Bay Area and around the globe are being streamed online, while others have been delayed until its safe for people to gather in a synagogue. Often, synagogues including Conservative ones will allow bnai mitzvah who have postponed their ceremonies to read the Torah or haftarah portion they studied on a later date. But neither broadcasting Shabbat services nor reading portions out of date are viable options for Orthodox Jews
admin | April 22, 2020
Standing Room Only Even as he cut the ribbon on the doors of the Romano Chabad Centre, Rabbi Mendel Bernstein knew it was too small. We needed a bigger place, but we couldnt afford it, he recalls. Instead, the community made do with a sensible 10,000-square-foot building situated on three acres of Richmond Hill in Toronto, Ontario
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