admin | August 12, 2022
JERICHO, New York The last time a bar or bat mitzvah read from the Torah at the Jericho Jewish Center was well before COVID-19. Its been at least four years since a full-time cantor sang from the Conservative Long Island synagogues pulpit
admin | August 12, 2022
On Friday night in Charlottesville, Va., an interfaith group of religious leaders will hold a service called Unite the Light. The name is a play on Unite the Right, the neo-Nazi march in the city that took place exactly five years ago and sparked violence that led to the death of a counter-protester. Chanting antisemitic slogans, the marchers walked right past the city's only synagogue: Congregation Beth Israel
admin | August 12, 2022
Hal Linden and Bernie Kopell star in Ed. Weinberger's 'Two Jews Talking.' Courtesy of DDPR By Mervyn RothsteinAugust 10, 2022 The older I get, the more Jewish I get, the longtime television producer, comedy writer and, in his more recent years, playwright Ed. Weinberger said.
admin | August 12, 2022
We are experiencing not only a spike in antisemitic events all around us but also the normalization of some of that gruesome rhetoric that creates the conditions for antisemitism to thrive. Joshua Kullock| Guest Columnist Former Wisconsin Proud Boy member saw bigotry and bullying Daniel Berry joined the Wisconsin Proud Boys in search of camaraderie, but instead found racism, antisemitism and sadistic bullying. Jasper Colt, USA TODAY Let me be honest.
admin | August 12, 2022
Bob Rosenthal and his older brother Leonard were eager to get off the train in Tucson, AZ to stretch their legs and purchase a cold drink. They had left Ft. Worth, Texas over twenty-four hours prior on their way to California for much needed R&R after their service in the military during WWII
admin | August 6, 2022
By CAITLIN OPRYSKO 08/05/2022 05:28 PM EDT Updated 08/05/2022 07:39 PM EDT With Daniel Lippman The nonprofit organization overseeing the redevelopment of Pittsburghs Tree of Life synagogue has tapped a host of lobbyists at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck to help the synagogue secure federal assistance for a new complex planned to be a sanctuary, museum and memorial honoring the victims of the 2018 mass shooting there. Brownsteins David Reid, Marc Lampkin, David Cohen, Steven Demby, Nadeam Elshami, Brian McGuire, Brian Wild, Andrew Usyk, Sage Schaftel and Radha Mohan will work to identify federal resources and potential sources of funding to aid in the effort, which is the subject of a separate fundraising campaign to pay for the renovations and operate programming and outreach for the new center. The synagogue last year secured a $6.6 million commitment from the state of Pennsylvania to redevelop the site, which has been vacant since a gunman killed 11 worshippers and wounded six others in the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S
admin | August 6, 2022
Many recent mass shootings have largely hit Jewish communities, and now the communities have had to come to grips with tragedy. Its been exactly one month since a gunman opened fire at the 4th of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park.
admin | August 6, 2022
Here we round up new and forthcoming childrens titles, including a middle grade book about siblings discovering a magical box in the woods, a picture book featuring a multiracial girl traversing the globe to visit her grandmothers, a picture book highlighting important Black male leaders, a middle schooler overcoming her fear of gym class, and more. The Daredevils by Rob Buyea
admin | August 6, 2022
In some corners of the Jewish community, one hears no end of jeremiads on the state of Jewish education in the country today. Grumble grumble, they all leave after their bnai mitzvah, and its all the parents fault! Grumble grumble, we have to spend more money on day schools or risk losing the next generation to assimilation! Grumble grumble, if they dont learn to keep Shabbos theyll intermarry or worse, become anti-Israel! There is nothing new under the sun. Since the earliest days of this newspaper, theres been no shortage of reporters, teachers, parents and community leaders (and others, no doubt) lamenting the imperfections and shortcomings of Jewish education throughout our country and region.
admin | August 6, 2022
Daily ScriptureTHURSDAY 8.4.22 Acts 6:5, 8-12, 7:54-60 Acts 6 5 This proposal pleased the entire community. They selected Stephen, a man endowed by the Holy Spirit with exceptional faith, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus from Antioch, a convert to Judaism. 8 Stephen, who stood out among the believers for the way Gods grace was at work in his life and for his exceptional endowment with divine power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people.
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