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On vacation in Egypt, I found hope for peace in Israel J. – The Jewish News of Northern California

| April 2, 2022

On March 28, top diplomats from the United States, Egypt, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Israel gathered in Sde Boker, in the Negev Desert, for the first Israeli-Arab summit of its kind on Israeli soil. Though it did not produce any solutions to the regions most pressing challenges, including issues around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Irans quest for nuclear weapons, it was an important demonstration of the shifting attitudes in parts of the Arab world toward the Jewish state. Just a few years ago, this gathering would have been impossible to imagine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a press conference

My family was murdered in Austria during the Holocaust. Now theyre offering me citizenship. Should I accept? – Forward

| April 2, 2022

My mother and I discovered my grandmother Erikas faded birth certificate on a trip to Austria in 2019. It was in an administrative office building adjacent to the Stadttempel synagogue, the only synagogue built before 1938 that was not burned by the Nazis and only because it was too close to the Nazi headquarters in The Hotel Metropol, 150 meters away

Hope for Living: Isn’t it time you went back to church? – Greenfield Daily Reporter

| April 2, 2022

A Christian radio broadcaster piqued my interest with something he said recently while sharing a list of reasons why we ought to make church attendance a priority. Topping his list was the biblical mandate (Hebrews 10:25) that Christians ought not neglect meeting together for worship, prayer, discipleship, and community (italics mine for emphasis).

On a Friday night in Lviv, Ukraine, when a synagogue became a sanctuary – The Times of Israel

| March 8, 2022

LVIV, Ukraine Then Solomon said, The Lord said that He would dwell in the thick darkness. The darkness over Lviv was indeed thick on the walk to the Beis Aharon VYisroel Synagogue on Friday night.

Weekend bargain book sale benefits the greater Greensboro community – WFMYNews2.com

| March 8, 2022

Find a good read, movie or even vinyl at Beth David Synagogue's 18th Annual Book sale.

Unmasking the origins of Purim costumes | The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle – thejewishchronicle.net

| March 8, 2022

A hot dog, an emoji and Superman walk into a synagogue and theres no punchline.

Auburn sees itself as setting an example of how to amend zoning to spur more housing – WMTW Portland

| March 8, 2022

As the Maine Legislature held an eight-hour public hearing today on an affordable housing bill that would amend zoning rules statewide for cities and towns, the Mayor of Auburn, the states fifth-largest city, showed us how his city is already implementing the kinds of changes proposed.Legislators on the Housing and Labor Committee entertained several hours of testimony over the bill sponsored by Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, a Democrat from Biddeford, LD 2003, which would require municipalities to let property owners build up to four units on lots zoned for single-family homes, among other reforms.Zoning laws are by definition exclusionary in nature, Auburn Mayor Jason Levesque, a Republican serving his third term, said in an interview at a construction site. Thats really the fundamental change that has to happen. Were overregulated, were under-housed, and really, weve eliminated the rights of property owners to actually live on the land that they own.Levesque and the city council revised zoning laws that limited property owners to single-family homes or prevented them from adding accessory dwelling units on their land."Nobody's going to force you to do anything in your backyard, then again you have no right to force someone, your neighbor, to not do something in their backyard," Levesque said

The disturbing resurgence of antisemitic conspiracy theories – Open Democracy

| March 8, 2022

Late last year, Malik Faisal Akram travelled from the UK all the way to Dallas with the intention of taking Jewish people hostage in a synagogue. He bought himself a gun and, on 15 January, enacted his plan at the Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas

‘I feel very privileged’: The Herts Rabbi at the heart of his community – Herts Live

| March 8, 2022

When I arrive at the Bushey United Synagogue, Rabbi Nick Kett is in the midst of his afternoon prayer. A group of men stand together in the main shul, a bright open space with blue curtains adorned with stunning embellishments and gold embroidery

Liverpool’s Jewish community pay tribute – and everything we know from day 12 of fighting in Ukraine – Liverpool Echo

| March 8, 2022

Day 12 of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine saw Russia continue to prevent the evacuation of civilians and a third round of peace talks.


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