simmons | June 29, 2017
Women who read aloud from the Torah at a synagogue in Marseille were subjected to threats and insults by congregants after local rabbis condemned the event. The dozens of threats and insults, made on social networks and in emails, started coming in Saturday night after the group of half a dozen women read the Torah at the Fleg Jewish Center that morning, the French community centers president,Raymond Arouch, and director, Martine Yana, wrote in a statement Monday.
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simmons | June 29, 2017
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the iconic Manhattan LGBTQ synagogue, instructed marchers joining it June 25 in the New York Pride Parade to avoid wearing clothing or carrying signs relating to the Jewish state or the Palestinians, the Forward has learned. A CBST rabbi asked in an email for the groups to ensure that their marchers focus on resistance to President Trump and not bring messaging comprising words, symbols and signage about Israel/Palestine. We were trying to say the debate about Israel and Palestine is not located in this event, said Sharon Kleinbaum, the senior rabbi of CBST.
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richards | June 29, 2017
The Villager Push to save some pieces of destroyed Norfolk St. synagogue The Villager BY BILL WEINBERG | The fate of the forlorn remains of the landmarked Beth HaMidrash HaGadol synagogue on Norfolk St.
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simmons | June 28, 2017
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) A group of Muslim girls from Germany said they were prevented from entering a synagogue in Lublin while on a visit to Poland to study the Holocaust. The girls claim they were refused entrance to the synagogue at the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva last week because they were wearing traditional Muslim headgear. The Jewish community of Lublin has denied the claim, saying in a statement thatthe group was turned awaybecause the hotel where the synagogue is located had been rented exclusively for one of Europes soccer teams.
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richards | June 28, 2017
KINGSTON, N.Y. > > The romantic comedy Amlie, about a painfully shy Parisian waitress who makes sly incursions into the lives of her neighbors, will be the next Movies With Spirit screening, at 7 p.m
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simmons | June 28, 2017
Guests at Bnai Abraham Chabads annual gala enjoy a cocktail hour. | Photo by Rachel Winicov When Jews fleeing czarist Russia arrived in Philadelphia in 1874, they founded Chevra Bnai Avrohom mi Russe, probably with little thought to the synagogues adaptability to 21st-century life. In 2017, however, the temples lay leaders resolved to modernize how the historic synagogue approaches the surrounding community
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richards | June 27, 2017
The bima of Beth El, featuring the handmade wooden ark that found a permanent home in a former church. (Image courtesy of Congregation Beth El) Congregation Beth El in Bangor, Maine, will soonthrow one heck of a party. Its wont be a bar mitzvah party, or a wedding shindig, or a Purim rager, or a fundraising gala, or any other type of social affair that a synagoguewould typically put on
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admin | June 27, 2017
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admin | June 27, 2017
By Pat Padua, Special To The Washington Post Set in an Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem, The Womens Balcony centers on the literal breakdown of a synagogue. Structural damage to the womens seating section results in a social conflict one that resonates well beyond its specific milieu.
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richards | June 27, 2017
The Zemun Synagouge was home to a rock and live music club during the 60s. Photo: Goran Boroja Few traces are left of the Jewish synagogues that were present in Belgrade before the outbreak of World War II
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