simmons | June 23, 2017
The Reconstructionist movement is adding another affiliate abroad this week, as it welcomes into its ranks a fledging synagogue in the Italian region of Calabria - where before the synagogues foudning, there hadnt been a schul in centuries. We are thrilled to welcome our first Italian affiliate to our movement, Rabbi Deborah Waxman, head of the Reconstructionist movement, wrote in a statement. Through their heroic efforts to reclaim their Jewish past from painful history, the community members of the community of Sinagoga Ner Tamid del Sud epitomizes Reconstructionist values
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richards | June 23, 2017
An historic lower east side synagogue ravaged by a fire last month may soon be demolished. Members from a Manhattan community board have approved a proposal to tear down the Beth Hamedrash Hagadol synagogue on Norfolk Street. That could result in either a partial or a full demolition
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richards | June 23, 2017
Angel Pulido The arts, sciences, technology, literature, architecture, navigation, mapmaking, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and art that flourished in Medieval Spain are often credited to Islam but this is a distortion of the role played by adherents of all three religions. The United Visigothic kingdom of Spain prior to the Muslim invasions had inherited five centuries of Roman civilization and had made use of the achievements of the Greeks and earlier Carthaginians as well as the Assyrians in agriculture, irrigation, mathematics, time keeping, the calendar, mining, architecture, road building, mosaic art, pottery, jewelry, law and civic responsibility. The Muslim conquerors who arrived in 711 had inherited these same arts and sciences on their path of conquest across the Byzantine empire, the Near East and Christian-Roman North Africa.
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richards | June 23, 2017
Pamela Ruben (L-r), Yarmmys Vargas, Jakki Kim, and Emily Armstrong from the Citrus Club Young Executive Board, with Barbara Abramson from the Jewish Pavilion Board. Cocktails. Crowds.
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admin | June 23, 2017
(Kveller via JTA)Being the parent of a child with a disability can be lonely. Being the single parent of a child with a rare disability that is estimated to affect a mere 1 percent of the population can feel like being sentenced to solitary confinement.
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simmons | June 23, 2017
While its summer vacation at school, Congregation Beth Am is not taking the season off as it hosts Shabbat in the Round and special themed shabbatos services to which the entire community is invited. The CBA sanctuary will be arranged in the round with the bima moved to the center of the sanctuary.
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richards | June 23, 2017
Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images President Emmanuel Macron of France at a news conference in Paris, June 12, 2017. (JTA)-Before he threw Sarah Halimi to her death from a window of her third-story apartment in Paris, 27-year-old KobiliTraore called his Jewish neighbor "Satan" and cried out for Allah. These and other facts about the April 4 incident that shocked French Jewry are known from testimonies and a recording made by a neighbor, according to the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism watchdog
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richards | June 23, 2017
Kevin Barrett, who has called the the September 11, 2001attacks an inside job, is due at the event on Saturday afternoon. The annual al-Quds Day march marks the end ofthe Muslim month of Ramadan is generally a call for the destruction of Israel, echoed in other cities around the world as a day of rage against the Jewish State. Bnai Brith Canada launched the online petitionwhich currently stands at over 2,000 signatures
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admin | June 23, 2017
NYACK - A Nyack Hospital employee is accused of posting offensive comments about Hasidic women on Facebook. Deborah Rosario allegedly accused Hasidic women of not working and hiding behind their religion. She also allegedly said that they shop at Lord & Taylor while her tax dollars pay for their children.
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admin | June 23, 2017
An Orthodox Jewish man with the traditional peyos, or long sidelocks. The origin of the Ashkenazi Jews, who come most recently from Europe, has largely been shrouded in mystery
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