admin | September 19, 2020
MANHASSET, N.Y. A Long Island synagogue congregation that didnt want its cantor to feel lonely during the celebration of the Jewish New Year took a page from the New York Mets, ordering cutouts to be placed in the seats before Fridays services
admin | September 19, 2020
Editor's Note: Before the pandemic shuttered many houses of worship, WBUR, in partnership with Brandeis Universityand Walking Cinema, embarked on a project to explore non-traditional religious spaces throughout Greater Boston. The audio-visual project, called "Hidden Sacred Spaces" and underwritten by the National Endowment for the Humanities, takes listeners and viewers inside these little-known places of worship to reveal their significance and histories
admin | September 19, 2020
The Jewish people believe it is decided who will be inscribed in the book of life on Rosh Hashanah, the holiday that begins Friday night.
admin | September 19, 2020
Chris McKenna|Times Herald-Record KIRYAS JOEL - The images published online on Sunday showed a religious mass gathering with no coronavirus precautions: hundreds of men and boys crowded together in prayer in Kiryas Joel's main synagogue, with no signs that any were wearing masks. The photos, posted on an Israeli website and tweeted by a Satmar Hasidic Twitter account,were taken inside Congregation Yetev Lev on the first day of selichot, penitential prayers said during the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year that begins this Friday. "Plainly, this is very concerning," Dr.
admin | September 19, 2020
A historic synagogue in Scotland that closed six years ago due to a dwindling Jewish community and has been eyed by developers has been listed as a protected building.Langside Synagogue in Glasgow was built in 1927 and is one of only two Eastern European-style synagogues in the United Kingdom, the BBC reported.There has been discussion recently about reopening the building to serve a new Jewish community growing in the area, according to the report.More than 840 groups and individuals supported the proposal to protect the building.As a protected building, developers would be required to take into account the buildings special architectural or historic interest.The interior of the building includes decorative details, woodcarving and wall painting in a folk-art style that was similar to synagogues in Poland, Ukraine and Romania, the BBC reported, citing the South Glasgow Heritage Environment Trust.In December, a Jewish collective based in Scotland in the north of the United Kingdom that represents multiple Liberal denominations and has many queer members petitioned the private owners of the synagogue building to reopen it to worship. An open letter to the synagogue owners asking for it to be reopened had more than 800 signatures cnxps.cmd.push(function () { cnxps({ playerId: '36af7c51-0caf-4741-9824-2c941fc6c17b' }).render('4c4d856e0e6f4e3d808bbc1715e132f6'); });
admin | September 19, 2020
Parking lots get a bad rap. Theres even a Joni Mitchell song about how awful they are: Dont it always seem to go/ That you dont know what youve got/ Til its gone/They paved paradise/And put up a parking lot.
admin | September 19, 2020
At least seven synagogues in Israel built 1,500 to 1,700 years ago feature mosaics of the zodiac, of all things.
admin | September 19, 2020
Debbie Frimet blows the shofar at Temple Beth Chai By Jill Fox The apples and honey are there, but something will be missing during this Jewish New Yearthe congregation. Parkland temples have been busily preparing for something very different, as COVID-19 continues to keep worshipers away
admin | September 19, 2020
It happened at 1:30 A.M. A new email landed in my inbox, with the subject: Hello Joshua Breiner, attached is a travel permit for a shofar blower [prayer leader]. I havent managed to fall asleep since.
admin | September 15, 2020
When is a door not a door? Well, if youre a member of Beth Jacob Congregation in Oakland and are tasked with helping to make a community eruv, or boundary used on Shabbat, you have to get creative
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