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How did a yeshiva ended up in the UAE? – The Jerusalem Post

| June 9, 2021

Tolerance and coexistence were the key words last week for Yeshivat Migdal HaTorah as it became the first gap-year yeshiva to travel to the United Arab Emirates since the Abraham Accords were signed. The students began their next day with a visit to the Sheikh Mohammed Center for Cultural Understanding. The students sat with Ruqaya and Mira in a majlis, a special gathering in a room where they were treated like friends, not just tourists

11 of the Best NYC Sandwiches That Got Us Through the Pandemic – Eater NY

| June 9, 2021

As the pandemic raged on, I found myself eating more sandwiches per week than I had done since taking a PB&J to elementary school every day. Six week ago, I offered a heartfelt thank you to 11 sandwiches that I liked best, putting them in ranked order just for the hell of it

‘The feeling is devastating’: Tucson synagogue vandalized with swastika, anti-Semitic slur – The Arizona Republic

| June 9, 2021

Rabbi Rami Bigelman and Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin speak with the media at Chabad on River in Tucson on June 8, 2021.(Photo: Chabad Tucson) Tucson police are investigating after the Chabad on River synagogue was vandalized with a swastika and an anti-Semitic slur over the weekend.

With commuter congregation waning, the Chicago Loop Synagogue faces an uncertain future – The Architect’s Newspaper

| June 9, 2021

From the eastern facade of the outwardly nondescript Chicago Loop Synagogue, an elaborate stained-glass wall filters blue, red, and gold light into an open sanctuary. Specially designed over the course of two years by New York-based artist Abraham Rattner, the monumental, 40-foot-wide piece of art was fabricated in the Paris studio of the prolific stained-glass artist Jean Barillet during the 1970s

Man arrested in vandalism of West L.A. synagogue – Los Angeles Times

| June 9, 2021

A man has been arrested in connection with a series of vandalisms in West L.A., including at a Pico-Robertson synagogue last month. Jon Knight Prince was arrested Thursday on suspicion of committing 13 acts of vandalism on Westwood and Pico boulevards between May 26 and Wednesday, the Los Angeles Police Department said. He was booked on suspicion of felony vandalism and was being held on $325,000 bail

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis Helps Raise Funds to Restore Abandoned Synagogue in Hungary With Family Ties – Algemeiner

| June 9, 2021

Jamie Lee Curtis. Photo: Wikimedia Commons


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