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ITV: Shocking Attack on a Rabbi Punched in the Face at his Synagogue
Rabbi Arnold Saunders has spoken out amid growing antisemitic abuse and assaults after he was punched in the face at his own synagogue in Manchester. Rabbi Saunders said he was punched in...
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Posted By richards on November 14, 2014
LOMBARD On the night of Nov. 9, 1938, Jewish businesses, homes and synagogues were attacked throughout Germany and other Nazi-controlled areas of Europe.
The shattered glass of windows lined sidewalks, giving the horrific night its name: Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass.
On that night, the Jews of Europe appeared to stand alone. Seventy-six years later, the members of Congregation Etz Chaim know they do not, after hundreds gathered Saturday the night before the anniversary of Kristallnacht to show their solidarity after the Lombard synagogue was vandalized in October.
Your support lifts us up, Rabbi Steven Bob said at the Coming Together in Solidarity event. Its clear that we do not stand alone.
On Oct. 21, the Lombard Police Department responded to a disturbance at Congregation Etz Chaim, where they found a suspect driving recklessly around the property.
Anti-Semitic graffiti was written on the synagogue, and seven of its windows were broken.
John White, 40, of Westmont, was taken into custody at the scene and charged with a hate crime, armed violence and other crimes. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
After the incident, police obtained a search warrant for Whites house, where they say they found thousands of rounds of ammunition, a shotgun, rifle and four handguns.
Bond was set at a full $5 million for White, but prosecutors are now seeking to deny him bail, said Paul Darrah, spokesman for the DuPage County States Attorneys Office. This motion will be considered Nov. 18.
Several government and religious leaders from throughout DuPage County attended the solidarity gathering, and they were joined by community members of all religions.
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Sometime during World War II, Manchester clergy leaders started holding an annual interfaith service near Thanksgiving Day to strengthen the community's spirit.
The yearly tradition ended more than 20 years ago, but clergy leaders are holding an interfaith service this month with hopes of again making it an annual event.
Rabbi Richard Plavin has been with the Beth Sholom B'nai Israel Synagogue in Manchester for 36 years and remembers the previous interfaith services. He offered to host the upcoming Nov. 23 service at his synagogue.
"I always thought it was a shame [it stopped] and I thought I would give it a try now," Plavin said. "I reached out to a couple of other clergy people in town who I had a relationship with and they agreed. We are all working together on it."
One of Plavin's colleagues is Pastor Scott Cady of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Manchester.
"We don't want to be in opposition to each other, we don't want to ignore each other and we don't want to misunderstand each other," Cady said. "We want to be partners locally and globally. You have to find different ways to start doing that."
This year's interfaith service will be a step toward such partnership in Manchester, where a variety of religions are represented. In addition to the many Methodist, Baptist, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish representatives who plan to attend the service, members of the new Bayt Ul-Mamur Mosque will also be present.
"It's part of a movement some of us here in town are working on to recognize the diversity in Manchester and getting all those various, diverse types of groups back to realizing they are also part of the community of Manchester," said Phil Susag, an interfaith service planning committee member who attends South United Methodist Church.
"This is a move to go back to where it was in those earlier days," said Susag, who is not a clergy member. "It was very much a community thing, and in this day and age there's more variety than there were in those days."
The interfaith service is not only a time to join together, meet new people and understand different backgrounds, but also a chance to do good. The service will also help support the Manchester Area Conference of Churches, which used to host the event.
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Haim Korsia Appoints Woman To Key Post
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Published November 13, 2014.
(JTA) The first thing Haim Korsia did after becoming chief rabbi of France was give his new office a thorough cleaning.
Next he redecorated to give the space a more modern look, placing his 30-inch model of a nuclear submarine a gift from his previous stint as senior military chaplain amid the volumes of scripture on his bookcase.
But it was what Korsia, 51, did next that convinced many French Jews that this short and energetic man, who assumed the title in June, was serious about modernizing the religious institutions of a crisis-stricken community still reeling from an increase in anti-Semitic violence and scandals involving two of Korsias predecessors.
In July, Korsia appointed a woman, Dolly Touitou, to one of two new positions created to handle complaints against French Jewrys religious services organization a bold move in a predominantly Sephardic community, which has been slower than others to embrace gender egalitarianism. Before 1990, women could not vote in Consistoire elections, nor could they stand for office themselves until 2006, when a French judiciary body overruled the prohibition.
Appointing a woman was a signal of where Rabbi Korsia stands on womens role in the Jewish community, said Rabbi Moche Lewin, an adviser and friend.
Korsia also staked out an unorthodox position on those born to non-Jewish mothers and Jewish fathers, embracing them as seed of Israel even though they are not considered Jewish according to traditional religious law. He also issued a directive against honoring anyone who refuses his wife a religious bill of divorce in response to a scandal that exploded on the watch of his predecessor.
Yet Korsia seems reluctant to overstate his progressive agenda. Thats understandable in a country where chief regional rabbis speak openly about women as duty bound to serve men and where, as recently as 2006, a chief regional rabbi from Strasbourg opposed the election of any woman to a position of leadership within his Orthodox Jewish community.
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A Hasidic Jew prays at Wilson #39;s Arch, which at the Western Wall (Wailing Wall), Jerusalem
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A White Plains federal judge on Thursday shot down a bid by Hasidic community leaders for an order allowing them to complete construction on a 396-unit town-house complex and a religious school for girls in a tiny upstate village.
Judge Cathy Seibel sided with Bloomingburg officials, denying a temporary restraining order against a recently enacted local law prohibiting new construction in the village of 420 residents.
Bloomingburg is fighting a $25 million religious-discrimination lawsuit accusing the village of conspiring to block a mass influx of Satmar Hasidic families, mostly from Brooklyn.
Seibel did say that developer Shalom Lamm could move ahead with most of the Chestnut Ridge town-house complex because permits for roughly 300 of the 396 units were secured before the building laws changed in June. About 48 are already complete.
The judge also warned both sides to resolve their disputes before going to trial because each side is looking to dirty the other.
Local officials say this has nothing to do with religion. They say they are fuming because the Chestnut Ridge site was approved as a gated community of 125 luxury homes. However, the original developer, Duane Roe, sold the property to Lamm, who upped the plan to 396 town houses.
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Abraham Rubin Just Out of Prison for Intimidation
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Published November 13, 2014.
One of the men arrested in a $20 million Satmar family mortgage fraud conspiracy is the same man who was convicted of trying to intimidate a witness against notorious Hasidic sex abuser Nechemya Weberman, the Forward has learned.
Abraham Rubin is fresh out of prison after serving three months for trying to bribe into not testifying against Weberman, an unlicensed counselor who was convicted in 2012 of repeatedly abusing a teenage girl in his care.
Rubin was arrested November 13 along with 14 of his family members and associates in a sprawling mortgage and public fraud conspiracy. He now faces up to 35 years in prison.
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorneys office confirmed to the Forward that Abraham Rubin had been cited for a $500,000 bribery attempt in the past. The man he tried to pay off, Boorey Deutsch, the victims husband, confirmed to the Forward that the man who tried to bribe him was the same Abraham Rubin as was arrested in the fraud scheme.
Rubin admitted in August 2013 to having offered $500,000 to Deutsch to have his wife drop her case. Prosecutors claimed that Rubin had suggested that the couple flee to Israel. Deutsch declined the bribe. Rubin was sentenced to four months in prison at a hearing in January 2014 for the attempted payoff. He was reportedly released in late March.
According to the latest indictment, Abraham Rubin, his brothers, and other family members conspired between 2004 and 2014 to obtain mortgages using false information, then default on most of the loans.
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Saxon Jesus was not an Ashkenazi Jew. Talmudic Circumcision.
In order for Jesus to be an Ashkenazi Jew rabbi he would have had to follow the Oral law from where the Talmud came from. Christ would never rape or harm a c...
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