richards | August 10, 2017
Gambler Billy Walters was sentenced to five years in jail last month for an insider trading scam that involved Dean Foods. He will go to jail for five years.
simmons | August 10, 2017
It is the well-known Indiana Jones story of Jewish scholarship: Solomon Schechter, raider of the lost geniza.
admin | August 10, 2017
An architects rendering shows the synagogue building that a Chabad affiliate, Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe, hopes to build near a popular beach in Sydney, Australia. (Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe) SYDNEY (JTA) A Chabad congregation whose bid for a new synagogue building was blocked out of fears that it would become a target for terrorism will resubmit plans to the local municipality
richards | August 10, 2017
Thursday, August 10, 2017 1:09 p.m. EDT By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan Jewish congregation known as the oldest in the United States must face a lawsuit claiming it illegally fired a employee after learning she was 19 weeks pregnant when she married, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday. The 2nd U.S.
simmons | August 10, 2017
We are all used to reciting this prayer (Psalm 30) around the time of Baruch Sheamar. The recital of Baruch Sheamar in daily Shacharit is a long-established practice. But when did Psalm 30 enter the daily Shacharit?
richards | August 10, 2017
A view inside the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. (Wikimedia Commons) (JTA) The congregation that worships in Americas oldest synagogue building will ask for a rehearing of the case that gave control of its pricey artifacts to the buildings historic trustees.
richards | August 10, 2017
By Ben Sales, JTA The story of Americas oldest synagogue, as told by retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter, is the story of American Jewish history. Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, Souter wrote, was built in the 1700s by Sephardic merchants whose community then declined
simmons | August 10, 2017
PARTICIPANTS IN the annual Hebron march show the flag, with the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the background yesterday. (photo credit:TOVAH LAZAROFF) As a new immigrant, Yigal Naouri first marched through the streets of Hebron in 1987 with some 500 French Jews in a show of solidarity with the fledgling Jewish community. Thirty years later, the 49-year-old Jerusalem resident again paraded through Hebron, this time with more than 1,000 French Jews under the hot August sun on Wednesday, and to the beat of loud religious music.
admin | August 10, 2017
Getty A bride and her grandfather dance at an ultra-Orthodox wedding in Jerusalem in 2012. The grand rabbi, or rebbe, of the Boyan sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews is offering $4,000 to anyone who suggests a successful match between older singles in their community, the Israeli news site Arutz Sheva reported Wednesday
admin | August 10, 2017
The owner of PokerStars, which recently decided to rebrand itself, is writing a new chapter of the companys history with a more than 200 percent increase in its second quarter net income.
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