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Daniel Libeskindthe architect who designed the new World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11 attackshas reportedly been chosen to refurbish the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, where 11 people were killed in an antisemitic mass shooting in 2018. Libeskinds appointment was reported by The New York Times on Tuesday; it states that he has been tasked with making it a functioning place of worship again as well as a memorial site.
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admin | May 10, 2021
This weekend, the New York Police Department arrested 29-year-old Jordan Burnette, accused of perpetrating a three-day spree of attacks against four synagogues in New York Citys Riverdale neighborhood. He was charged with 42 criminal counts including several hate crimes. For three straight days last month, Burnette is alleged to have smashed doors and windows at these houses of prayer and invaded their sacred spaces, leaving behind a wake of strewn prayer books
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admin | May 10, 2021
A bipartisan group of elected officials in Congress introduced legislation on April 8 designed to help fight back against hate crimes across the country. Its not hard to understand why. Hate crimes are up in Washington state and around the country.
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admin | May 10, 2021
By SASHA KESLER (re: Weekend vandalism targets 4 synagogues, April 29) When I was 16, the Seattle Jewish Federation was attacked by a violent shooter on a Friday afternoon. A woman died, and four were shot mostly non-Jews, since many of the Jews already had left for Shabbat. When I worked at that federation several years later for a summer fellowship, the pain and trauma was still palpable.
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admin | May 10, 2021
By ETHAN STARK-MILLER How should a community come together in the wake of hatred and find a way to collectively heal? Thats the question many in this corner of the Bronx are asking themselves after at least four synagogues along the Henry Hudson Parkway were targeted by a vandal last month. The natural first step?
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admin | May 10, 2021
The last time my dad went to his hometown of Martinsville, Virginia, was for his mothers burial at the Jewish cemetery there two years ago. It had been nearly five decades since hed moved away from the little industrial town on the Carolina borderpart of a mass migration of the Souths small-town Jews to the regions urban centersand at least fifteen years since hed last returned. The main street where his parents had run their department store for thirty years was full of empty storefronts
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admin | May 10, 2021
Gina Raimondo sworn in as Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, the Rhode Island governor picked by President Joe Biden to lead the Commerce Department, has been sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris. (March 3) AP Madame Vice President: Its great to see youre planning to visit Rhode Island Wednesday, with Gina. Who, by the way, deserves the titleMadame Secretary, since she now runs Commerce, but around these parts, shes Gina.
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admin | May 10, 2021
Algemeiner Editor-in-Chief Dovid Efune appears on i24 News. Photo: Screenshot.
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admin | May 10, 2021
(JTA) Nissim Pingle, the head of Mumbais Jewish community center, hasnt left his home since March. Thats when COVID-19 began to overtake India.
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admin | May 10, 2021
Ohio saw a record number of antisemitic incidents in 2020, according to a recent report by the Anti-Defamation League of Cleveland.
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