admin | August 24, 2017
Ric Urrutia Araceli Velasquez and her family A Denver, Colorado synagogue and church are joining forces to help an immigrant from El Salvador who fears her life will be in danger if deported back to her homeland. Temple Micah and the Park Hill United Methodist Church are holding a joint interfaith prayer service Wednesday welcoming Araceli Velasquez and her family to take sanctuary in the church. Velasquez came to the United States in 2010 seeking asylum because of the violence she encountered in El Salvador
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richards | August 24, 2017
At Congregation Shaar Zahav in San Francisco, Rabbi Mychal Copeland leads Shabbat services with a rainbow tallit around her shoulders. The synagogue newsletter is called The Jewish Gaily Forward. But the shul that has been known since its 1977 founding as San Franciscos gay synagogue is now reaching out to a broader community and de-emphasizing its identity as an LGBT-specific congregation.
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richards | August 24, 2017
August 18, 2017 12:51 PM ALAMEDA (CBS SF) Windows at an Alameda synagogue were shattered by a rock-throwing vandal who was recorded on security cameras, authorities said Friday.
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admin | August 23, 2017
Paula J. Owen Correspondent @PaulaOwenTG GARDNER - The stained-glass Jewish star on a building near City Hall on Main Street has been an important reminder of Gardner's Jewish heritage, so when news spread that the synagogue building had been sold, people contacted the bank that purchased it to urge the buyer to somehow maintain its history. Jonathan A
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simmons | August 23, 2017
anti-Semitism By Ben Finley | August 20, 2017 Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017.
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richards | August 23, 2017
Temple Beth Or Beth Torah is adding new classes beginning in September of 2017. A Kton Group will welcome 4 and 5 year olds to a monthly Sunday two hour class in music, Bible stories, introduction to Hebrew and Jewish customs.
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admin | August 21, 2017
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admin | August 21, 2017
Count me among the thousands of people who enjoy visiting southern Florida. On my first trip to Boca Raton, about an hour's drive north of Miami, I remember walking along the reef of South Inlet Park, waves crashing on the rocks, as local fishermen hailed me with friendly smiles and hellos. The city residents were welcoming overall, but I was there to expose how, for a decade, a vocal few have fought to keep the Chabad of East Boca Raton from building a synagogue.
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simmons | August 21, 2017
Email a copy of "Ritual Baths Excavated at Destroyed Great Synagogue of Vilna" to a friend Remains of a newly excavated mikvah that was used by congregants at the former Great Synagogue in Vilna. Photo: Israel Antiquities Authority. JNS.org A team of Israeli, Lithuanian and American archaeologists has unearthed the remains of two mikvahs (ritual baths) used by congregants at the Great Synagogue in Vilna, which is the modern-day capital of Lithuania
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simmons | August 20, 2017
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- For Diane Gartner Hillman, the new reality of being Jewish in Charlottesville sunk in when she had to leave Congregation Beth Israel through the back door. On any other Saturday, worshippers at the city's lone synagogue would have left through the front and walked without fear to their cars, parked near the statue of Gen
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