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Posted By simmons on October 9, 2014

New Palestinian unity government today held its first cabinet meeting at the site of Hamas' 50-day war with Israel The meeting marked the end of more than seven years of absolute Hamas control over the coastal territory The ministers' convoy today toured the badly damaged town of Beit Hanoun and the neighbourhood of Shijaiyah However, it is unclear how much power the cabinet will hold as none of its members are aligned to Hamas or Fatah It comes just days before Western-backed president Mahmoud Abbas will seek $4billion in reconstruction aid By Corey Charlton for MailOnline Published: 13:11 EST, 9 October 2014 | Updated: 16:19 EST, 9 October 2014 77 shares 55 View comments The new Palestinian unity government held a cabinet meeting in the war-battered Gaza Strip for the first time today, marking the end of more than seven years of absolute Hamas control of the coastal territory. In establishing a Gaza foothold, the cabinet also tried to assure the international community that foreign aid for Gaza's reconstruction will not reach the militant group Hamas, which is shunned by the West as a terror group. The meeting came three days before an international pledging conference in Cairo where Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to seek $4 billion for Gaza reconstruction after the recent 50-day war between Israel and Hamas

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Moroccan Poet And Activist Defends Zionism In an interview with the Moroccan radio station Medradio, Amazigh poet and activist Malika Mazan defended Zionism, claiming that like any other nation, the J... By: Henoch2006

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Palestinian PM: Siege of Gaza must be lifted Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah says Israel must be held accountable for the crimes it committed in the Gaza Strip during its recent war on the bes...

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Talmud Daf Yomi Chagigah Siyum Gemarrah Rabbi Weisblum
Talmud daf Yomi class for Tractate Chagigah, Hagigah, by Rabbi Dr. Moshe P. Weisblum. " Chagig...

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Posted By richards on October 9, 2014

Synagogue building collapse: Coroner #39;s inquest begins October 13
The coroner #39;s inquest into the recent collapse of a building within the premises of the Synagogue Church of All Nations at Ikotun area of Lagos would commenc...

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Posted By richards on October 9, 2014

WHY T.B. JOSHUA SYNAGOGUE COLLAPSED
After the collapse of T.B. Joshua #39;s building and how many souls seeking deliverance perished. Every other human logic is shallow after you watch this video. A simple Biblical truth reveals...

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Posted By richards on October 9, 2014

SYNAGOGUE BUILDING COLLAPSE
EXCLUSIVE: New CCTV shots of the synagogue church guest house collapse.

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Posted By richards on October 9, 2014

A little storefront synagogue west of Boca Raton has received a big bequest after battling with national Jewish organizations over the legacy of a South Carolina philanthropist.

Congregation Shaarei Kodesh, a Conservative synagogue at 19785 Hampton Drive, will get $2.1 million from the estate of Nathaniel Rosenfeld, who died in 1997. The money was not to be distributed until the death of his wife, Hannah, who died in 2012.

"We are over the moon, elated, grateful beyond words," Shaarei Kodesh co-president Amy Pessah said Wednesday. "It feels like a big hug from God."

Pessah said the disagreement had discomfited members of the congregation, since many are donors to the well-known organizations that were suing the synagogue, including Hadassah, which raises money for a hospital in Israel, and ORT, which offers education and job skills to the needy.

Rosenfeld, of Florence, S.C., allowed his sisters, who lived in Boca Raton until their deaths in 1999 and 2001, to choose which charities benefited from his millions. His sisters were among the founders of Temple Beth Tikvah, which merged with Shaarei Kodesh in 2007.

The siblings' family had been establishing synagogues for several generations. Their parents were among the founders of Temple Beth Israel in Florence in 1912, according to the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina.

The sisters decided Beth Tikvah should get 89 percent of their brother's bequest, with the Blumenthal Home for the Aged in North Carolina, Hadassah, ORT America and Americans For Peace Now getting the remainder.

The national groups challenged this distribution of the money, saying Shaarei Kodesh was not the legal successor to Beth Tikvah because the synagogue had not filed articles of merger with the state.

The legal sparring became especially bitter when Shaarei Kodesh asked a South Carolina court for sanctions against the national groups, including attorneys' fees and a contempt citation, for not complying with a judge's order to confer on the facts of the case.

Still, the parties decided to settle, with $1.9 million shared among the four groups: Americans For Peace Now gets about 13 percent, 21 percent to the Blumenthal home, 28 percent to Hadassah and 38 percent to ORT.

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Posted By richards on October 9, 2014

October 08, 2014 12:01 AM

NEW BEDFORD The Kennedy-Donovan Center has purchased the former Ahavath Achim synagogue and officials said they are embarking on a $1,475,000 renovation plan to consolidate their facilities to one campus.

"This is a really important time for us," Kevin Rodman Conare, president and chief executive officer of the center, said at Tuesday's groundbreaking ceremonies. The center provides services to infants, children, adults and families with developmental disabilities in Bristol and Plymouth counties.

The renovation plan includes the $425,000 purchase of the synagogue property in November 2013, according to Ann Buono, the center's vice president for development.

The move consolidates operations to one campus, Buono said. The center is located on Hawthorn Street and the synagogue is across the street at the intersection of Hawthorn and County streets.

The project will also preserve the former synagogue, which was built as the Cornelius Grinnell Jr. Mansion in 1828, according to Buono.

Peggi Medeiros, a local historian, said the building is part of the County Street Historic District, a national historical designation that denotes a district, but does not protect individual buildings.

"That's really good news that they're not going to demolish it. That's really exciting news," she said.

"It could not have gone to a better organization," said Rabbi Barry D. Hartman of Orthodox Chavurah Minyan of New Bedford, whose congregation used the building as a synagogue from 1939 to 2012.

"There's a lot of history here," he said.

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Posted By richards on October 9, 2014

The White Synagogue (right) and the Red Synagogue (left) before their renovations (photo credit: DykumuUgnis via Wikimedia Commons)

After seven years of renovations, a unique complex made up of two 19th-century synagogues opened to the public in the Lithuanian town of Joniskis.

The Joniskis Synagogue Complex made its official debut earlier this month, the Russian Jewish news agency AENreportedWednesday.

The complex in northern Lithuania comprises the Red Synagogue, which dates to 1865, and the White Synagogue, from 1823, according to the World Monuments Fund, which participated in the restoration.

The unique complex of Joniskis synagogues is an important cultural, historic, architectural, and social landmark, not only in the district of Joniskis, but within Lithuania and Eastern Europe as a whole, the fundwroteon its website.

It noted that in1970, the complex was declared a Cultural Heritage Object by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage in Lithuania.

Countless Lithuanian synagogues were destroyed by the Nazis and later by the Soviet government. The Joniskis complex, with the Star of David decorating one of its facades, escaped a similar fate because it is surrounded by residential buildings, meaning that would-be vandals passed right by them without realizing they were there, the fund wrote.

After the war, the buildings were abandoned and reused for various purposes, according to the fund.

The synagogues were in a serious state of serious disrepair when restoration efforts began in 2007, it said.

The roof of the White Synagogue was replaced and the false upper-level facades on the sides of the building have been restored to their original configuration, the fund reported. In addition, the Red Synagogues foundations were repaired and made waterproof.

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