admin | June 15, 2024
New York-based real estate law firm Rosenberg & Estis P.C. has secured rezoning approval for Agudist Council of Greater New York, a Brooklyn congregation, to rehabilitate its synagogue and senior center at 817 Avenue H in Kensington, Brooklyn. The site has been owned and operated by the Agudist Council since 1975.
admin | June 15, 2024
On the Kiddush tables at the Portuguese Synagogue (Esnoga) in Amsterdam every Shabbat morning were plates of herring, salmon, tuna and various pastries. When one member of the small community, a Dutchman of course, saw us focusing on eating herring, he wondered, "You like herring? Israelis and herring?" We responded, "There's no Shabbat without herring on our table." He then added humorously, "But herring like ours cant be found anywhere.
admin | June 15, 2024
A teenage neo-Nazi has been jailed for eight years for creating a detailed plan to carry out a suicide bomb attack on a synagogue because he wanted to make Jews afraid again. Mason Reynolds, 19, of Moulsecoomb Way, Brighton, was convicted at trial of possession of an article connected with the preparation of an act of terrorism against the synagogue in Hove. He had also pleaded guilty to five counts of possessing material likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, as well as five offences of sharing terrorist publications dating back to when he was aged 16
admin | June 15, 2024
DETROIT (WXYZ) A jury has been seated in the trial for Michael Jackson-Bolanos, the man accused of murdering Detroit synagogue leader Samantha Woll. Opening statements took place on Tuesday afternoon with both Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Ryan Elsey and defense attorney Brian Brown presenting before court adjourned for the day
admin | June 15, 2024
14 June 2024, 16:28 A teenager from Brighton who created a detailed plan to carry out a suicide bomb attack on a synagogue has been jailed eight years.
admin | June 15, 2024
A Brighton teenager is due to be sentenced for creating a detailed plan to carry out a terror attack at a synagogue in Hove.
admin | June 15, 2024
The Forbidden Daughter is a fictionalised Holocaust biography that isnt really about the Holocaust. Instead, its about the legacy of tragedy; the way trauma passes down the generations and the fact that peace does not really mark the end of the fight.
admin | June 15, 2024
In a five-hour interview with the USC Shoah Foundation, Justus Rosenberg refers to himself as a small fry, a cog, an unimportant person. And perhaps it was for this reason that for decades, the Bard College literature professor hadnt let onto his colleagues, to his students, and even, for a time, to his wifethat he had fought and outwitted the Nazis during World War II to save thousands from persecution. Between the years of 1939 and 1947, with Forrest Gump-ian omnipresence, Rosenberg was a courier and guide for Varian Frys Emergency Rescue Committee in Marseilles, a spy and a guerilla soldier for the French underground, a scout for the U.S.
admin | June 15, 2024
Three new books written in English by Yael Van Der Wouden, Jessica Jacobs and Toby Lloyd feature Hebrew in them. This article originally appeared in The Forward. In the past few months, I have encountered three new English-language books that all have Hebrew in them.
admin | June 15, 2024
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a Palestinian professor at a prominent Israeli university, first waded into the debate over the Gaza war by joining academics worldwide in signing a letter that called for a cease-fire. It branded Israels assault on the territory a genocide and the leaders of her university responded by urging her to resign.
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