richards | June 16, 2017
Interior and sand floor of the Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Willemstad, Curacao Like an act of moving meditation, the synagogue attendant smooths over a weeks worth of footprints on the sand floor of Mikv Israel-Emanuel in Willemstad, Curaao. He glides a rake in long arcs until the sand resembles freshly poured concrete, occasionally kicking up a swirl of dust that catches the warm light pouring through the windows
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admin | June 16, 2017
The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism recently partnered with Faircom New York for their annual fundraising New York, NY (PRWEB) June 16, 2017 Faircom New York is proud to announce their newest client:The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ).
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simmons | June 16, 2017
Netanyahu in Thessaloniki synagogue Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara on Thursday visited a Thessaloniki synagogue together with Jewish community president David Shaltiel, Thessaloniki Rabbi Yisrael Aharon, Mayor Yiannis Boutaris and Jewish community leaders.
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admin | June 13, 2017
Carol Kozma Journal Staff Writer CarolKozma PROVIDENCE, R.I.
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simmons | June 13, 2017
Members of Romanias Jewish community filed a complaint with police Monday after anti-Semitic graffiti and Holocaust-denying messages were discovered on the facade of a synagogue in the of Cluj-Napoca. It is the desecration of a historical monument, we notified the police, the gendarmes and the town hall, said Robert Schwartz, president of the Jewish community of Cluj.
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admin | June 13, 2017
Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Officer Mike Lopez said University Synagogue and two campuses of Wilshire Boulevard Temple were shut down early Saturday morning. The locations reopened in the afternoon after police deemed the venues secure. University Synagogue was closed after a staff member found an email that was beyond nastyhorrific language, and threatening in one of the congregations email accounts, said the synagogues Rabbi Morley T.
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admin | June 12, 2017
Ryan Blessing rblessing@norwichbulletin.com, (860) 425-4205 rblessingNB MONTVILLE Descendants of some of the first Russian Jewish settlers in Eastern Connecticut gathered in a wooded clearing Sunday afternoon in the Chesterfield section of town to honor the site where, 125 years ago, their ancestors established what is said to be the first rural synagogue in the state.
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simmons | June 12, 2017
(JTA) Three Los Angeles synagogue locations were temporarily closed after receiving bomb threats on Shabbat. The threats were reported in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal on Saturday.
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admin | June 12, 2017
Three Los Angeles synagogue campuses were shut down following a series of online bomb threats, disrupting normally scheduled Shabbat activitieson June 10.
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richards | June 12, 2017
Share Share Email Print Cathy Sperlings aunt Sherrie Zaft was the only Jewish student in her class during elementary school. Born in 1928, Mrs. Zaft traveled to Toledo each weekend often in the front of a patrol wagon that carried inmates from the correctional facility in Whitehouse to attend Sunday school at Bnai Israel, a conservative synagogue
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