simmons | June 28, 2017
Guests at Bnai Abraham Chabads annual gala enjoy a cocktail hour. | Photo by Rachel Winicov When Jews fleeing czarist Russia arrived in Philadelphia in 1874, they founded Chevra Bnai Avrohom mi Russe, probably with little thought to the synagogues adaptability to 21st-century life. In 2017, however, the temples lay leaders resolved to modernize how the historic synagogue approaches the surrounding community
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richards | June 28, 2017
KINGSTON, N.Y. > > The romantic comedy Amlie, about a painfully shy Parisian waitress who makes sly incursions into the lives of her neighbors, will be the next Movies With Spirit screening, at 7 p.m
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richards | June 27, 2017
The bima of Beth El, featuring the handmade wooden ark that found a permanent home in a former church. (Image courtesy of Congregation Beth El) Congregation Beth El in Bangor, Maine, will soonthrow one heck of a party. Its wont be a bar mitzvah party, or a wedding shindig, or a Purim rager, or a fundraising gala, or any other type of social affair that a synagoguewould typically put on
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admin | June 27, 2017
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admin | June 27, 2017
By Pat Padua, Special To The Washington Post Set in an Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem, The Womens Balcony centers on the literal breakdown of a synagogue. Structural damage to the womens seating section results in a social conflict one that resonates well beyond its specific milieu.
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richards | June 27, 2017
The Zemun Synagouge was home to a rock and live music club during the 60s. Photo: Goran Boroja Few traces are left of the Jewish synagogues that were present in Belgrade before the outbreak of World War II
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richards | June 27, 2017
June 26, 2017 7:11 PM RYE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) Congregations of two different religions in Westchester County are preparing to worship under one roof.
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simmons | June 27, 2017
A historic Upper West Side synagogue is breaking with centuries of tradition telling interfaith couples to goy ahead and tie the knot in its sacred sanctuary.
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admin | June 27, 2017
June 25, 2017 10:00 PM By HadasKuznits PHILADELPHIA (CBS) A summer food program starts Monday at Rodeph Shalom Synagogue for kids who rely on their free school lunches to eat. The program is expected to fill more than just their bellies. Rodeph Shalom rabbi Eli Freedman says there is a real childhood hunger problem happening in the Spring Garden neighborhood where the synagogue is located
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richards | June 26, 2017
Leon Resnick, 94, was born a year after the synagogue was built and had his bar mitzvah there. PROVIDENCE, R.I. The stark building is usually closed tight, but on Sunday balloonsdanced on their strings, music poured from open doors and families came and went,although one family's departure was delayed by the difficulty of getting two childrenout of a tree
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