richards | March 2, 2017
Photo: Jon Shapley, Staff A fundraising page to support rebuilding the Islamic Center of Victoria, which was destroyed in a fire, reached more than $1 million by Wednesday afternoon. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle) A fundraising page to support rebuilding the Islamic Center of Victoria, which was destroyed in a fire, reached more than $1 million by Wednesday afternoon. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle) A week before the fire at the Islamic Center of Victoria, a vandal had painted "H8" (shorthand for hate) on the side of the building.
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richards | March 2, 2017
Please enable Javascript to watch this video ROCKLIN -- A fire broke out early Saturday morning at a synagogue, located at the Chabad House Jewish Community Center along Douglas Boulevard in Granite Bay. "They came in, they broke into the building, and they put out the fire, and they saved our Torah Scrolls," said Malkie, the JCC's education director.
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richards | March 2, 2017
The Adath BNai Israel Temple in Evansville, Indiana. (photo credit:FACEBOOK) A gunshot was fired through a Hebrew school classroom window at an Indiana synagogue. The bullet hole was discovered late Monday at Adath BNai Israel Temple in Evansville.
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richards | March 2, 2017
FAIRFAX, VAGrowing increasingly exasperated at his inability to make himself heard, local man Alex Turner told reporters Wednesday that he was frustrated by the fact that he is unable to leave a hateful message for a local synagogue because the line is always tied up with other threats. I make it a point to call every morning, but why bother when you can never get through? said Turner, 38, adding that the line is so swamped by menacing calls that he often has to wait on hold half an hour to tell a synagogue staff member that Jews did not belong in his neighborhood, sometimes having to call back numerous times because he just receives a busy signal.
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richards | March 2, 2017
New York Synagogue's Plans for New Building Move Forward Wall Street Journal (subscription) A long-delayed plan to put up a community house and condominium next to a historic synagogue on Central Park West got new life on Tuesday. New York City's Board of Standards and Appeals voted to approve a plan by Congregation Shearith Israel to put ...
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richards | March 2, 2017
by Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb March 1, 2017 A well-known joke told about the Jews describes a group of explorers who find a Jew who has been stranded on a desert island for years. As he takes them around the island and shows them how he survived, they find that he built two synagogues for himself.
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richards | March 2, 2017
By Julia Cabrera New York The American Sephardi Federation (ASF) open its doors on March 30 for the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival. The week long event features the rich history of the Sephardic Jewish Community across the globe through film, with specific nights dedicated to the Moroccan, Iraqi, Greek, and Yemenite Jewish communities. The festival will shed light on the stories of Sephardic Jews from Baghdad to Greece, Ethiopia to Switzerland, and Israel to Iran.
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richards | March 2, 2017
Spanish authorities have reportedly dropped the requirement for Sephardi Jews aged 70 and over to take language and culture tests to qualify for Spanish citizenship. Five hundred years after Jews were burned at the stake, forced to convert to Christianity or thrown out of the country, Spain passed legislation in October to allow the descendants of those who were expelled in 1492 to apply for Spanish citizenship. Similar legislation exists for those whose ancestors were booted out of Portugal.
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richards | March 2, 2017
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. When I got married, I decided to speak Yiddish to my children, and not just any Yiddish, but my husbands heymish Yiddish; in other words Hasidic Yiddish.
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richards | March 2, 2017
Michel Nedjar at his studio in Paris in 2016. (Isabelle Filleul de Brohy) (JTA) Though he may be one of Frances best-known puppet makers, Michel Nedjar insists he does not really create the acclaimed and haunting figures that he calls his Purim puppets. A former tailors apprentice whose lifes work last week went on display at the prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Lille, Nedjar says he merely exhumes his puppets to reconnect to his brethren who were murdered in the Holocaust, to his lover and mentor who died of AIDS and to his Jewish roots.
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