admin | April 20, 2024
(JTA) As Mary Jane Rein prepared to publicly exit her role as executive director of Clark Universitys Holocaust center, she attended a local fundraiser for Catholic schools. After 20 years, she was leaving her job at Clark on bad terms
admin | April 20, 2024
Alleging admonishments and threats from both students and staff in an opinion piece published by the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, the executive director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University has left the Worcester institution to join Assumption University.
admin | March 30, 2024
A joyous weekend for a Brooklyn rabbis family turned into tragedy early Friday when a fire broke athis synagogue, leaving them trapped by a third-floor window ledge, fighting for their lives, FDNY officials and congregants said. Rabbi Avrhom Horowitz, his wife, and son were among the five people hospitalized, two critically, as the fire broke out about 6:15 a.m. on the second floor of the 60th St.
admin | March 30, 2024
BROOKLYN - Firefighters battled a fire at Stavnitz Synagogue on 60th Street in Brooklyn Friday morning. Witnesses said residents were forced to jump from the second floor in order to escape. The three-story building is a synagogue on the first floor, with apartments on the second and third floors
admin | March 21, 2024
Firefighters rescued 11 Torah scrolls early on Monday morning from a synagogue that went up in flames in the central Israel city of Kfar Saba. No one was hurt, but the building suffered serious damage
admin | March 21, 2024
(New York Jewish Week) An arsonist with a tattoo reading KILL Rabbi Max was sentenced to decades in prison for setting fire to a rabbis home in 2019.
admin | March 21, 2024
(New York Jewish Week) An arsonist with a tattoo reading KILL Rabbi Max was sentenced to decades in prison for setting fire to a rabbis home in 2019. Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email Matthew Karelefsky, 46, was convicted last month of charges including attempted murder, arson and assault for the crime in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Midwood. On Monday, he received a sentence in Brooklyn Supreme Court of 25 years to life in prison
admin | March 21, 2024
NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) -- A 46-year-old man was sentenced to 25 years for intentionally setting fire to the home of a Brooklyn rabbi in 2019, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced on Monday. Matthew Karelefsky, a former Brooklyn resident, was convicted of first-degree attempted murder, second-degree arson,six counts of second-degree assault, and two counts of fourth-degree arson on Feb
admin | March 5, 2024
Unknown individuals set fire to a synagogue in Sfax, the second-largest city in Tunisia. No one was harmed in the arson attack, which occurred on Sunday in a city that currently has no Jewish residents. According to Tunisian media outlets, the fire erupted in the synagogue's courtyard, resulting in the burning of 12 palm trees.
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