admin | February 17, 2022
SOUTH BEND In what would be the first large-scale upgradeto a South Bend Housing Authority property in years, a plan has been developed to demolish both the Rabbi Shulman and Monroe Circle apartment complexes and build new public housing at the site. Though demolition efforts still have to clear procedural hurdles and the process will require relocation for tenants, officials laud it as profound opportunity coming about because ofan influx of federalfunding and the organization's new leadership. Weve got a lot of work ahead of us, said the Housing Authority's executive director, Catherine Lamberg
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admin | February 17, 2022
On Jan. 15, a gunman held four people including a rabbi hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, because, in his words, Jews control the world.
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admin | February 17, 2022
Like physicists in search of a unified field theory, the sages of old sought the Torahs great unifying principlethat which encompasses and undergirds all of Gods teachings to the Jewish people. Rabbi Akiva proposed: And you shall love your fellow man as yourself. (Leviticus 19:18) Ben Azzai offered: This is the book of the lineage of Adam.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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admin | February 15, 2022
Its Archive Week here at J.
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admin | February 11, 2022
Jared Armstrong, center, appealed the Israeli Interior Ministrys denial of his application for Israeli citizenship but his appeal was denied Wednesday. (Courtesy Armstrong via JTA.org) By Shira Hanau Jared Armstrong traveled to Israel on Birthright last year. He also spent months studying with an American Conservative rabbi in order to formally convert to Judaism, a step he wanted to take so he could move to Israel to playfor the Hapoel Haifa basketball team
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admin | February 11, 2022
On a picturesque autumn evening in early November, the sunset belied a briskness to the Denver breeze. But inside a nondescript brick building downtown, anticipation was heating up the air.
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