richards | March 2, 2017
Please enable Javascript to watch this video ROCKLIN -- A fire broke out early Saturday morning at a synagogue, located at the Chabad House Jewish Community Center along Douglas Boulevard in Granite Bay. "They came in, they broke into the building, and they put out the fire, and they saved our Torah Scrolls," said Malkie, the JCC's education director.
richards | March 2, 2017
The Adath BNai Israel Temple in Evansville, Indiana. (photo credit:FACEBOOK) A gunshot was fired through a Hebrew school classroom window at an Indiana synagogue. The bullet hole was discovered late Monday at Adath BNai Israel Temple in Evansville.
richards | March 2, 2017
by Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb March 1, 2017 A well-known joke told about the Jews describes a group of explorers who find a Jew who has been stranded on a desert island for years. As he takes them around the island and shows them how he survived, they find that he built two synagogues for himself.
richards | March 2, 2017
New York Synagogue's Plans for New Building Move Forward Wall Street Journal (subscription) A long-delayed plan to put up a community house and condominium next to a historic synagogue on Central Park West got new life on Tuesday. New York City's Board of Standards and Appeals voted to approve a plan by Congregation Shearith Israel to put ...
richards | March 2, 2017
FAIRFAX, VAGrowing increasingly exasperated at his inability to make himself heard, local man Alex Turner told reporters Wednesday that he was frustrated by the fact that he is unable to leave a hateful message for a local synagogue because the line is always tied up with other threats. I make it a point to call every morning, but why bother when you can never get through? said Turner, 38, adding that the line is so swamped by menacing calls that he often has to wait on hold half an hour to tell a synagogue staff member that Jews did not belong in his neighborhood, sometimes having to call back numerous times because he just receives a busy signal.
richards | February 28, 2017
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richards | February 28, 2017
(JTA) In an escalation of the internal feud dividing Lithuanian Jews, the Chabad movements senior emissary to the country was banned from the capital citys main synagogue.
richards | February 28, 2017
Congregation Mishkan Israel, in Hamden, Connecticut, has a well-earned reputation for social activism, sometimes of the controversial kind. A progressive Reform synagogue that is said to be oldest Jewish congregation in the state, Mishkan Israel has hosted figures from Martin Luther King Jr. to a representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
richards | February 28, 2017
Its a cooperative building project, like a barn-raising, that gets artists Rick and Laura Brown to bring together more than 300 students and building professionals from 16 countries over 10 years in Sanok, Poland. Together, theyre reconstructing the Gwozdziec Synagogue, with its elaborate roof and painted ceiling one of many 18th-century wooden Jewish houses of worship destroyed or desecrated during the Holocaust. The exhaustive and detailed work logging, hewing, sawing and carving, as well as building and re-creating the synagogues ornate, colorful murals are captured in the film Raise the Roof, to be shown Saturday at 7:30 as part of Temple Israels Embracing Diversity Film Feastival.
richards | February 27, 2017
In each case, JCC leaders have taken the bomb threat seriously and evacuated the building.
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