admin | July 31, 2020
Houses of worship are continuing to evolve in their offerings for worship services and programming since Phase 2 of Gov. Charlie Bakers reopening plan that allows them to open their doors
admin | July 31, 2020
My first Tisha BAv memory took place at Camp Ramah, just outside Santa Barbara, California during the summer after third grade. I was a precocious seven-year-old in edah aleph (group one, the youngest class of campers). Our edah worked together to fashion a beautiful outdoor beit knesset (synagogue) beneath a sprawling oak tree with custom painted benches and our artwork hanging from the aron hakodesh (holy ark for the Torah).
admin | July 31, 2020
AMSTERDAM (JTA) In the United States, when Jews say they identify as part of the Jewish community, they are saying they belong to a broad cultural and religious framework. They could be referring to the community of Jews in their city, their state, the country at large or the world and it doesnt necessarily mean that they belong to a synagogue. In Western Europe, that applies in some situations.
admin | July 31, 2020
Progressive rabbis in the UK havewritten to the Israeli embassy in Londonto express their concern over the Israeli governments plans to annex parts of the West Bank. The letter has been sent fromBritish Friends of Rabbis for Human Rights, an organisation which supports the work of Rabbis for Human Rights working in Israel and the West Bank. It draws its members from both Progressive (Reform and Liberal) as well as Masorti and Orthodox rabbis.
admin | July 31, 2020
(BERLIN) Holocaust survivors around the world are lending their voices to a campaign launched Wednesday targeting Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to take action to remove denial of the Nazi genocide from the social media site. Coordinated by the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the #NoDenyingIt campaign uses Facebook itself to make the survivors entreaties to Zuckerberg heard, posting one video per day urging him to remove Holocaust-denying groups, pages and posts as hate speech. Videos will also be posted on Facebook-owned Instagram, as well as Twitter
admin | July 29, 2020
A security guard at a Ukraine synagogue overpowered a man armed with an ax who broke into the compound shouting wheres the synagogue? The intruder slightly wounded the guard, who managed to wrestle the weapon away from him
admin | July 29, 2020
Visitors at the synagogue in Halle the day after a gunman targeted the house of worship in eastern Germany in October 2019. (Jens Schlueter/Getty Images via JTA.org) By Marcy Oster Now pockmarked with bullets, the door of the synagogue in Halle, Germany, that held out a far-right gunman last October was replaced on Tuesday. The heavy wooden door will become the centerpiece of a memorial to the attack and the two bystanders killed by the assailant, The Associated Pressreported.
admin | July 29, 2020
(JTA) Now pockmarked with bullets, the door of the synagogue in Halle, Germany, that held out a far-right gunman last October was replaced on Tuesday.
admin | July 29, 2020
Israels Health Ministry will increase the number of worshipers permitted in synagogues ahead of Tisha BAv, which begins on Wednesday evening, the heads of the ultra-Orthodox political parties announced on Monday. The current limit is 10 worshipers only.
admin | July 29, 2020
The StandWithUs (SWU) Center for Combating Anti-Semitism (CCA) has offered a $10,000 reward to whomever provided the information that led to the arrest of the alleged perpetrator behind the recent vandalism of two Florida synagogues. The two synagogues, Temple Emanu-El and Temple Sinai, were vandalized on July 15 with swastikas and other unspecified anti-Semitic graffiti. Both synagogues are located in Sarasota, Fla.
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