richards | February 16, 2017
(JTA) After swastika graffiti was discovered at a Boston-area high school, the principal turned to a local synagogue for help in educating the students about its significance to Jews. The swastika was found drawn on a bulletin board in an English classroom at Westwood High School, the Fox Boston affiliate reportedWednesday. The principal emailed parents to inform them of the incident and then contacted a synagogue located down the street from the school.
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richards | February 16, 2017
Image via Wikimedia:Acartelli In 1987, local residents and urban preservationists joined forces to save the Eldridge Street Synagogueone of the first erected in the United States by Eastern European Jews. The 20-year, $18.5 million endeavor, called the Eldridge Street Project, culminated in December 2007, transforming the iconic Lower East Side institution into the stunning architectural marvel it is today. It presently sits on a crowded street betweenCanal and Division, framed on all sides by multi-story brick buildings that house an eclectic collection of stores
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richards | February 16, 2017
The memory of Zidan Saif, the Druse policeman killed in the November 2014 terrorist attack on worshipers in a synagogue in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof, will be honored this Sabbath at the capital citys Great Synagogue.
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richards | February 16, 2017
Related content: WASHINGTON (CNN) - Amid the weekend's reaction to President Donald Trump's travel ban one may hit close to home for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Adas Israel Congregation, the Conservative synagogue in Washington's Cleveland Park neighborhood where Trump and Kushner send one of their three young children to preschool, issued a statement Sunday evening condemning the President's controversial executive order
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richards | February 16, 2017
Danya Shults Photo by Bridget Badore Julianne was raised by Catholic and Presbyterian parents, while Jason grew up culturally Jewish. At first, it was simple to mark their different backgrounds
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richards | February 16, 2017
During yet another disastrous press conference held on Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump committed numerous attacks against the freedom of the press, attacking the legitimacy of the members of the press and silencing a Hasidic reporter who tried to ask an important question.
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richards | February 16, 2017
Although you may think that all Latinos are Catholic, this is incorrect. I was born in Mexico City, and, like my parents, I was raised Jewish.
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richards | February 16, 2017
Jewish Chronicle Cholent: The most emotive of dishes Jewish Chronicle It's one of my favourite symbolic dishes of the Ashkenazi canon. Each family would put their cholent pot into the town baker's oven before sundown on Friday and it would slow cook in the dying embers overnight until retrieved on Saturday for Shabbat ...
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richards | February 16, 2017
Show up on a Shabbat morning at Congregation Bnai Israel in Daly City, and if youre a typical American Jew you will see plenty thats familiar. At the front of the sanctuary is an ark, and inside the ark are several Torah scrolls.
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admin | February 16, 2017
In 1975, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution slandering Zionism by equating it with racism.
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