admin | December 28, 2019
The interior of the Eliyahu HaNavi synagogue in Alexandria, Egypt. Photo: World Monuments Fund. The Egyptian government confirmed on Friday that it will reopen a historic synagogue in the city of Alexandria next month.
admin | December 28, 2019
SaturdayDec28,2019at4:11AM The Sunday Dispatch article Hanukkah steps forward reported that "in the early to mid-19th century, Judaism wasn't openly practiced or publicized in the United States." The article skipped over the role in American history that the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, has had.
admin | December 26, 2019
A Pennsylvania man accused of ransacking a Beverly Hills synagogue and damaging several Jewish relics has been charged with felony vandalism and accused of a hate crime, prosecutors said Monday. Anton Nathaniel Redding, 24, pleaded not guilty to one count of felony vandalism, one count of second-degree burglary and denied his role in the alleged hate crime, officials said. If convicted on all charges, he faces a maximum of six years in state prison.
admin | December 17, 2019
Images of Torah scrolls yanked open, ripped apart, and strewn across the sanctuary at Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills last Shabbat has left a knot in the collective gut of the Los Angeles Jewish community and American Jewry more broadly, which is still reeling from a murderous attack at a Jersey City kosher market last week, and massacres at synagogues in Pittsburgh and Poway. The desecration of Judaisms most holy objects seems like it automatically deserves to be designated as a hate crime, and this incident is being investigated that way, for possible anti-Semitic motive, according to Lt.
admin | December 17, 2019
Yesterday my Iranian Jewish community here in Southern California was shocked to discover that one of our beloved houses of worship, the Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills was vandalized in an anti-Semitic attack. From social media photos released by synagogue members who entered the building after the attack, we saw Torah scrolls torn and thrown on the floor, prayer books that were damaged, shattered pieces of glass, prayer shawls thrown on the floor and furniture that was overturned.
admin | December 17, 2019
I grew up in a Conservative synagogue in Maryland. I went to preschool there.
admin | December 17, 2019
There is anti-Semitism in America and there always has been. It has been present since the first Jews arrived in the New World in the 16th century and started to settle there in the 18th and through the mass waves of Jewish immigration to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
admin | December 17, 2019
Before the rain there were the fires.
admin | December 17, 2019
Advertisement Beverly Hills police investigate the Nessah synagogue on Saturday morning after the employee arrived at the worship site at 7:00 am to reveal open doors, flipped furniture, and damaged several monuments. Police investigate the incident as a hate crime, but says there is no evidence to suggest that the attack was anti-Semitic. The synagogues main scrolls were locked and undamaged.
admin | December 16, 2019
A prominent Beverly Hills synagogue was trashed early Saturday in what city officials are calling a cowardly act and police are classifying a hate crime, according to news reports.
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