Posted By richards on December 16, 2014
NYPD: Stabbing Suspect At Brooklyn Synagogue Fatally Shot By Police
Concerns are growing abut police protocol after a deadly standoff at a Brooklyn Jewish Center. Has the recent political climate caused officers to hesitate b...
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Posted By richards on December 16, 2014
During the week of Thanksgiving, Boca Raton Synagogue (BRS) the large Modern Orthodox synagogue in Boca Raton hosted Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks global religious leader, philosopher, author and moral voice for our time.
Rabbi Sacks is the former chief rabbi of Great Britain. Rabbi Sacks is currently the Ingeborg and Ira Rennert Global Distinguished Professor of Judaic Thought at New York University, as well as the Kressel and Ephrat Family University Professor of Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University (also in New York City).
The highlight of the visit was Shabbat morning (Nov. 29) when Rabbi Sacks addressed the BRS congregation with more than 1,100 people in attendance.
Said Rabbi Efrem Goldberg, senior rabbi of Boca Raton Synagogue: "It is a wonderful privilege for our community to have hosted such a renowned and distinguished scholar and rabbi. Rabbi Sacks' ability to communicate the uniqueness of our timeless Jewish values and beliefs makes him a once-in-a-generation personality."
While in Boca Raton, Rabbi Sacks also:
Met at BRS with local rabbis from all denominations of Judaism.
Met with more than 1,000 students from local Jewish day schools, including Hillel Day School, Torah Academy and Donna Klein Jewish Academy of Boca Raton, and Scheck Hillel Day School of North Miami Beach.
Met with more than 50 local Jewish educators.
Conducted a Saturday night concert with Chazzan Shimon Craimer.
Rabbi Sacks said: "I've been all over the United States and appreciate South Florida. South Florida is unique. You have multiple, strong Jewish communities in a larger area that interact so well together."
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Posted By richards on December 16, 2014
Four decades ago, one of the area's oldest synagogues moved from its longtime home in the city to a sprawling campus in Pikesville, becoming part of a sweeping postwar exodus of Jews to the northwestern suburbs.
A few members of Chizuk Amuno didn't want to go. They arranged to buy their building in Reservoir Hill, reorganized under a different name, and prayed for the best.
"We had no idea whether we had any future or not," says Efrem Potts, the first president of Beth Am Congregation and its longest-tenured member.
Today, Beth Am is the largest Conservative congregation in the city, one of the few non-Orthodox synagogues with a growing membership, and a force for change in a non-Jewish neighborhood.
This weekend, it marks its 40th birthday with two days of food, klezmer music and dancing. Longtimers will share tales from the past. Its young rabbi will unveil plans for the future.
The festivities coincide with Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish holiday that begins at sundown on Tuesday. The timing is fitting.
"Hanukkah means 'rededication,' and I absolutely do think they're rededicating," says Deborah Cardin, assistant director at the Jewish Museum of Maryland in Baltimore. "It makes great sense that they'd do this on Hanukkah Sabbath."
Cardin was referring to the sixth day of Hanukkah this Saturday, when the celebration's biggest events are scheduled.
Hanukkah plays a key role both in Jewish history and in the history of Beth Am, a congregation of about 500 families affiliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.
The holiday commemorates a triumph in the year 165 B.C., when a band of Jewish warriors having watched enemy forces ransack the Temple of Jerusalem and ban their faith recaptured the place and rededicated it as a house of worship.
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Posted By richards on December 16, 2014
A SYNAGOGUE in Shipley may be demolished and replaced with a nine-home property development if planners vote in favour of the scheme tomorrow.
The Bradford Hebrew Congregation, which was based in the now-derelict Springhurst Road building, is seeking outline planning permission to flatten the site and build a terrace of four-bedroom properties.
And Bradford Council officers have recommended to Keighley and Shipley Area Planning Committee that initial approval is granted for the project despite 17 letters of objection compared to five in support.
Councillor Hawarun Hussain (Green, Shipley) is one objector who while in favour of some form of residential development, is critical of the current scheme, believing the new terrace would be too close to existing properties.
"The way in which the proposed dwelling is not in line with the existing dwellings will result in a significant loss of light for the residents.
"I would recommend therefore that the building is brought into line with the existing dwelling of surrounding areas, and also that a gap is created between the new build properties and the existing terrace," writes Cllr Hussain.
The residents of the most affected house have objected as their north-facing back garden would be robbed of light and views replaced by the walls of the new houses.
Other worries raised include the increase in traffic and vehicle pollution from nine four-bedroom properties.
Local resident Heather Roberstshaw voiced common concerns about the possible loss of open land outside the synagogue's fences.
"This common land is used by much of the neighbourhood and any incursion into it will be objected to vociferously," she wrote.
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Posted By simmons on December 16, 2014
TapTronic On The Move: Tel Aviv, Israel Featuring Ciaran Plummer and Mick Mchugh. TapTronic is Ciaran Plummer, Zach Klingenberg, Colin Fleck and Mick McHugh. Filmed and edited by Brian Doherty BrianDohertyPhoto.com Click To ..
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Israel showcases defense systems at AUSA 2014 By: defenseupdate
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BBC Documentary 2014 | Zionism and The Zionist Conspiracy of the Anti Defamation League BBC Documentary 2014 | Zionism and The Zionist Conspiracy of the Anti Defamation League bbc documentary,bbc,national geographic,documentary,national geograph... By: PhanXi Mr
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Watch how a Home in Gaza are bombed and destroyed completely by the Israeli Air-force There were people in here, but according to the CIA they are all terrorists. All of the children, pets and families
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Chris Hedges speech about Gaza Chris Hedges speech about GazaChris Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper #39;s coverage of global terrorism. He also received... By: Woezel 2015
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