admin | May 15, 2017
Quartz A feminist Rabbi has been waging a quiet battle for gender equality at his Delhi synagogue Quartz Every Friday evening, the skull-capped figure of Rabbi Ezekiel Isaac Malekar enters the Judah Hyam Hall synagogue on Humayun Road in Delhi, and sets up the place in preparation for the weekly Shabbat service. Not much setting up is required ..
admin | May 15, 2017
Budapest greeted me with a gorgeous sunset as I woke up, ready to explore the beautiful Hungarian capital and its historical Jewish Quarter. I began my trip first focused on exploring the citys major attractions such as the Szechenyi Thermal Baths, where I was gladly able to relieve my sore back after a cramped bus ride.
richards | March 12, 2017
LORAIN Several hundred people attended Saturday services at Agudath BNai Israel Synagogue to stand in solidarity with the congregation after the synagogue was recently vandalized with a swastika and anti-Semitic message. A day care worker at Agudath Bnai Israel Synagogue, 1715 Meister Road, arrived at work last week and saw a swastika carved into a metal door frame followed by an anti-Semitic statement, We will rise and gas you (expletive), according to a police report. Many local public officials including the mayor, several city council members, current and former Lorain County commissioners and several Lorain County Court of Common Pleas judges attended
richards | March 12, 2017
Today, a local report out of Seattle indicates that there was a vandalism attack on a synagogue in the citys Capitol Hill neighborhood. Seattles crime blotter said this: Around 5 AM Friday morning, an SPD officer working off-duty in the area spotted a spray painted message, describing the Holocaust as fake history, on an exterior wall of the temple in the 1400 block of 16th Avenue. Fake history is likely a play on fake news by Holocaust deniers
richards | March 11, 2017
The Seattle synagogue Temple De Hirsch Sinai was vandalized with graffiti saying The Holocaust is fake history. Its rabbi responded: Were not going to allow those who terrorize us to define us. A synagogue in the Capitol Hill neighborhood was vandalized overnight Thursday with anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying graffiti, said Rabbi Daniel Weiner of Temple De Hirsch Sinai
richards | March 11, 2017
Spray-painted message says The Holocaust is fake history.
richards | March 11, 2017
NEW YORK The day after the presidential election, as congregants gathered in her Brooklyn synagogue to air their feelings, Rabbi Rachel Timoner was already starting to organize against the incoming administration. She called her local city councilman, Democrat Brad Lander, and together they organized an activists panel at her congregation, Beth Elohim, to discuss policy changes under President Donald Trump. More than 1,000 people packed the sanctuary for the event
richards | March 10, 2017
Congregants of Bnai Jeshurun in New York City rally on behalf of immigrants Thursday, Mar. 9, 2017. Bnai Jeshurun is one of several synagogues more assertively embracing activism since Donald Trumps election.
richards | March 10, 2017
The man rode up to the Midwood synagogue on his bike and started picking through coats hanging inside, police said.
richards | March 10, 2017
The Boston Globe Fight over control of oldest US synagogue reaches appeals court The Boston Globe BOSTON Appeals court judges deciding the fate of the nation's oldest synagogue seemed skeptical Wednesday about a lower court's decision to put control of the building and a set of bells worth millions of dollars in the hands of the congregation ...
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