admin | December 13, 2019
Touro Synagogue will be decorated for the holidays and docents will educate visitors on the evolution of Chanukah during the open house tour. (Photo by Michael Melford) The Historic Houses of Worship Holiday Traditions tour will take place on Dec. 23 from noon to 3 p.m.
admin | December 13, 2019
5 Non-Drinking Things to do This Weekend in Detroit is a roundup of our favorite ways to indulge and adventure without drinking.
admin | December 13, 2019
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) Fears that a deadly shooting at a Jewish market in Jersey City was an anti-Semitic attack mounted on Wednesday as authorities recounted how a man and a woman deliberately pulled up to the place in a rental van with at least one rifle and got out firing. A day after the gunbattle and standoff that left six people dead the two killers, a police officer and three people who had been inside the store state and federal law enforcement officials warned they have not established the motive for the attack.
admin | December 11, 2019
(JTA) For many Jews around the world, theres probably no love lost for 2019. As the year draws to a close, the Jewish community continues to grapple with the continued rise of global anti-Semitism one major community in Europe is facing the possible election as prime minister of a man who many Jews consider an anti-Semite
admin | December 7, 2019
In 2014, archaeologists discovered the ruins of a synagogue from the 3rd century CE in the ancient town of Majdulia.
admin | December 7, 2019
A federal court convicted Joseph Cecil Vandevere of threatening to lynch Qasim Rashid, a Muslim man who ran for the Virginia Senate, on Friday. A sentencing date has not yet been set, but Vandevere may go to prison for up to five years and pay a fine of up to $250,000. On July 18, 2018, Vandevere, 53, tweeted Rashid a picture of the 1915 lynching of Leo Frank under the Twitter handle DaDUTCHMAN5, captioned "VIEW YOUR DESTINY".
admin | December 7, 2019
People are in need of a place to worship that is simple, free and easy to access. We want to create community around New York and offer services that are joyful and meaningful in pop up locations. NEW YORK (PRWEB) December 02, 2019 Pop in to Sim Shalom's new Pop Up Synagogue this upcoming Friday night, December 6th
admin | December 6, 2019
Its Saturday night at the Uptown VFW in Minneapolis and a sold-out crowd has gathered around a wrestling ring. And out struts Los Angeles wrestler Joey Ryan. Clad in tight floral shorts, aviators and a white jacket open to his bare, hairy chest, Ryan takes the ring to Rupert Holmes 1979 hit Escape (The Pina Colada Song), an appropriate song as the lollipop-sucking wrestler looks like he stepped out of that decade.
admin | December 6, 2019
Peres Parpaih couldnt sleep on the night that Rabbi Eytan Kenter and a delegation from an Ottawa synagogue delivered a Torah scroll to Arusha, Tanzania. This is the most valuable and uplifting gift that weve ever been given, Parpaih, the leader of Arushas small, beleaguered Jewish community said in a recent email exchange
admin | December 6, 2019
The Marthas Vineyard Island Clergy Group, which represents pastors from Vineyard churches of different denominations, has issued a statement in response to a rash of discriminatory vandalism at Island churches and a Falmouth synagogue earlier this fall. We felt that to remain quiet and not say anything was to legitimize the behavior and acquiesce to it, said the Rev. Stephen Harding, rector of Grace Church in Vineyard Haven, who circulated the statement Tuesday
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