richards | March 2, 2017
FAIRFAX, VAGrowing increasingly exasperated at his inability to make himself heard, local man Alex Turner told reporters Wednesday that he was frustrated by the fact that he is unable to leave a hateful message for a local synagogue because the line is always tied up with other threats. I make it a point to call every morning, but why bother when you can never get through? said Turner, 38, adding that the line is so swamped by menacing calls that he often has to wait on hold half an hour to tell a synagogue staff member that Jews did not belong in his neighborhood, sometimes having to call back numerous times because he just receives a busy signal.
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richards | February 28, 2017
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richards | February 28, 2017
(JTA) In an escalation of the internal feud dividing Lithuanian Jews, the Chabad movements senior emissary to the country was banned from the capital citys main synagogue.
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richards | February 28, 2017
Congregation Mishkan Israel, in Hamden, Connecticut, has a well-earned reputation for social activism, sometimes of the controversial kind. A progressive Reform synagogue that is said to be oldest Jewish congregation in the state, Mishkan Israel has hosted figures from Martin Luther King Jr. to a representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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richards | February 28, 2017
Its a cooperative building project, like a barn-raising, that gets artists Rick and Laura Brown to bring together more than 300 students and building professionals from 16 countries over 10 years in Sanok, Poland. Together, theyre reconstructing the Gwozdziec Synagogue, with its elaborate roof and painted ceiling one of many 18th-century wooden Jewish houses of worship destroyed or desecrated during the Holocaust. The exhaustive and detailed work logging, hewing, sawing and carving, as well as building and re-creating the synagogues ornate, colorful murals are captured in the film Raise the Roof, to be shown Saturday at 7:30 as part of Temple Israels Embracing Diversity Film Feastival.
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richards | February 27, 2017
(The Tower)Archaeologists have discovered and restored a stone column with Hebrew inscriptions from an 1,800-year-old synagogue in the town of Pekiin in the western Galilee region, the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced this week.
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richards | February 27, 2017
In each case, JCC leaders have taken the bomb threat seriously and evacuated the building.
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richards | February 27, 2017
Rescue workers alerted after shots heard in Matmidim synagogue in Beitar, south of Jerusalem. David Rosenberg, 26/02/17 22:03 A man was found dead in a synagogue in the predominantly haredi city of Beitar Illit, south of Jerusalem Sunday evening. The grisly discovery was made after gunshots were reported in the Matmidim synagogue on Darchei Ish Street.
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richards | February 27, 2017
The Villager Historic E. 6th 'tenement synagogue ' reopens The Villager BY LESLEY SUSSMAN | The historic, more than 100-year-old Anshe Meseritz Synagogue , which was renovated to make room for luxury condominiums, reopened its doors in the East Village this month after a four-year hiatus. The original synagogue was ..
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richards | February 27, 2017
The top of a limestone column discovered in the Western Galilee may pinpoint the location of the ancient village of Peqiin, where the Galilean sages hid in a cave from the Romans 1,800 years ago, Israeli antiquities experts say. The stone, found upside-down during a renovation and conservation project, is engraved with two Hebrew inscriptions that experts believe were written to honor donors to the ancient synagogue that once stood there. The Talmudic and Midrashic sources tell of the Galilean sages that lived in Peqiin, including Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who hid from the Romans in a cave, said Yoav Lerer of the Israel Antiquities Authority, in a press release
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