admin | September 14, 2021
The country may be talking about lockdowns and permanent closures, but in Westhampton Beach the Hampton Synagogue is thriving. The popular Jewish congregation run by the oft dubbed rabbi-to-the-stars Marc Schneier hasnt let the pandemic slow it down. In fact, they plowed ahead with construction of a massive addition to their synagogue, named Jacks House and the Levin Family Childrens Campus.
admin | August 29, 2021
The lawyer for the man accused of repeatedly stabbing a rabbi in broad daylight last month outside a Jewish day school in Brighton said he is very sick. He is a very ill individual, Janice Bassil said Thursday at Khaled Awads Suffolk Superior Court arraignment on nine indictments, including violating Rabbi Shlomo Noginskis constitutional rights. Awad, 24, previously was arrested in Florida on a minor charge and found to be incompetent to stand trial, Bassil said.
admin | August 29, 2021
Rabbi Sheldon Lewis wasnt planning on writing a seventh book during the pandemic. But a virtual reunion he attended put him in a reflective state of mind
admin | August 29, 2021
A priest, a rabbi, and a preacher were on a boat ride when the rabbi told his companions that he was hungry.
admin | August 29, 2021
Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School in Palo Alto, a prominent K-8 institution attended by the families of some of Silicon Valleys tech leaders, has hired a new head of school. Rabbi Daniel Lehmann became the first Orthodox-trained rabbi to lead the school after starting work in July
admin | August 29, 2021
The High Holidays have arrived again, but the pandemic never left. In fact, with the Delta variant now the predominant strain of COVID-19 in Wisconsin, the coronavirus is spreading rapidly.
admin | August 29, 2021
The album Hashkiveinu highlights the growing trend to recast traditional Jewish liturgical music in a more modern musical format, accessible to older and younger Jews. Produced by the Jewish Community of Greater Stowe where Rabbi David Fainsilber is one of three who collaborated on this project, Hashkiveinu introduces the listener to three excellent voices, subdued but effective guitar, along with a supporting band of Vermonters who make this liturgical-meets-folk-meets-pop-meets-jazz musical experience a delight to listen to, whether you are Jewish or not
admin | August 29, 2021
Rabbi Aviva Fellman| Telegram & Gazette A recent social media post shared by a colleague said, I feel like after the year weve all had, our rabbis should be able to stand up on Rosh Hashanah and just exclaim, I am so overwhelmed! I dont know what to say! and wed all kind of nod and say cheers, Ill drink to that. This past year has been hard. It has been hard personally, professionally, emotionally, spiritually, physically, intellectually.
admin | August 23, 2021
RANDOLPH TWP. On the recent Jewish holiday of Shavuot, Sunday, May 16, Rabbi Avraham Bekhor, the beloved rabbi of Chabad of Randolph, was hit by a car on Sussex Road in the middle of the night. The driver fled, leaving the rabbi lying on the side of the dark highway, grievously injured
admin | August 23, 2021
My father was a reform rabbi in Mount Vernon, New York, a city that, in the 1950s, had a railroad line splitting it in half. On one side lived mostly white people including the Jews; on the other side were peoples of various minorities including African-American. In 2004, I was hired to make a movie about the riots in Crown Heights that happened in 1991.
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