admin | May 30, 2024
The pews of the sanctuary have been pushed back and turned so that audience members will face each other, with the scaffolding in the middle. Its the first time in the Vilna Shuls history that the pews have been moved, says Dalit Horn, executive director of the Vilna Shul, but we were open to creating a stage experience that is convenient and unconventional.
admin | May 30, 2024
Beth Israel Congregation wont go gently into the good night. Or maybe its the little engine that could.
admin | May 30, 2024
CBS News Pittsburgh Live PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Police have charged a Pittsburgh man for allegedly having a storage area full of explosives right in his apartment building. An investigation of the discovery now involves not only Pittsburgh police and but also the FBI.
admin | May 30, 2024
Diplomats from the United States and France visit the Ghriba synagogue on Tunisias Djerba island to commemorate a deadly attack there last year, during a Jewish pilgrimage hampered by security fears. French ambassador Anne Gueguen and Natasha Franceschi, the US deputy chief of mission in Tunisia, lit candles and placed flowers inside Africas oldest synagogue. They both decline to be interviewed by AFP, and members of their teams say the event was too emotional for them to speak
admin | May 30, 2024
Nick Haberman recognizes that the lessons of the Holocaust are just as applicable in 2024 as they were in 1945.
admin | May 30, 2024
Nearly three dozen completed explosive devices and materials used to make explosives were found in the possessions of a Pittsburgh man who is accused of inscribing a hate symbol on the doors of a synagogue last month, Pittsburgh police say.
admin | May 30, 2024
The UKs Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis has appealed directly to the City of Londons Lord Mayor in a bid to prevent a 43-storey office block being built on the doorstep of the 17th century Bevis Marks Synagogue. The Chief Rabbi wrote he is troubled by the renewed plans for a tower by the synagogue, which he claimed has the potential to significantly affect the natural light that can reach the building with implications for religious practices
admin | April 11, 2024
Thirteen members of a Hasidic Jewish community were arraigned on Wednesday on charges stemming from a January incident in which a wall inside a famous Brooklyn synagogue was damaged by young men wielding a hammer and crowbar setting off a melee that was captured on video. The 13 people, all young men, pleaded not guilty in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn to charges that ranged from criminal mischief to obstructing governmental administration. Another four defendants were absent because they were in Israel, according to their lawyer, Levi Huebner.
admin | April 11, 2024
DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa (WHP) UPDATE | The Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley area is now confirming specific areas that were also targeted with bomb threats related to the Harrisburg incident. A release was sent out by members of the organization, stating that a threatening hoax email was sent to the Allentown Jewish Federation's inbox, along with branches in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Pittsburgh
admin | April 11, 2024
At the beginning of this weeks Torah portion, we learn that a woman who has recently given birth to a boy is prohibited from entering the sanctuary for 40 days and that twice that long if she gives birth to a girl. What did it feel like to be excluded for so many weeks
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