admin | February 15, 2022
(RNS) Rabbi Avi Olitzky was 26 when he started working at Beth El Synagogue in Minneapolis straight out of seminary. Over the past 14 years he helped build the synagogue with its signature curved roof into one of the largest Conservative congregations in North America, with 1,250 member families.
admin | February 15, 2022
Rabbi Daniel Bogard says his congregation in St. Louis is "a community focused on radical hospitality" but on High Holy Days, "it looks like something out of a war zone." That's because Central Reform Congregation hires a SWAT team to secure the site. Last month, Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, made national headlines when an armed man took four people hostage inside of it during a morning service
admin | February 15, 2022
Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of the Park Avenue synagogue said last week he didnt want to respond from the pulpit to the Amnesty International report charging Israel with apartheid and instead let his congregants go to Israel lobby groups AIPAC and the ADL and J Street to read their disavowals of Amnesty but he couldnt help himself because hes committed his synagogue to supporting Israel. So Cosgrove spent 15 minutes trashing a report he admits he hasnt read, because thats what you do when a family member is attacked from the outside.
admin | February 15, 2022
Dear brothers! Thank you for the interest and concern of all of you for our situation in Ukraine. The pressure in our community is undoubtedly very great
admin | February 15, 2022
Its Archive Week here at J.
admin | February 15, 2022
A House bill introduced in Florida to remove lessons about gender identity and race from public schools that may make students feel discomfort could erase years of progress in diversity and inclusion, advocates say. It could pass as soon as next week
admin | February 15, 2022
Parashat Ki Tissa (Ki Tisa: Exodus 30:1134:35)By Rabbi Adina Allen | February 14, 2022 The Ten Commandments are the cornerstone of Judaism. Torah teaches that the stone tablets containing the commandments were given to us after we escaped Egypt, crossed the Red Sea, and arrived at Mount Sinai.
admin | February 15, 2022
You may have seen friends posting on social media with what seems like a secret code.
admin | February 15, 2022
A couple of days ago, somebody drew a swastika in the second floor boys bathroom at my school. They locked down every bathroom on the floor, and I complained to my friend from Jewish preschool (Gan Keshet, for the locals) that it was more antisemitic that I as a Jewish girl couldnt have a convenient place to pee
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