admin | June 25, 2022
(JTA) Two policemen standing guard at the Grand Synagogue in the center of the Tunisian capital of Tunis were stabbed on Thursday. It is not clear whether anyone was in the synagogue at the time of the attack, AFP reported. The suspect, who was imprisoned in 2021 over a terrorism case and has since been released, wounded the officers but was overpowered
admin | June 25, 2022
Rabbi Stephen Weiss was indicted on one count of attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, one count of importuning and one count of possessing criminal tools, according to the Cuyahoga County Clerk of Courts. Meanwhile, his former employer, Bnai Jeshurun Congregation in Pepper Pike, completed its own investigation, finding no evidence Weiss engaged in illegal, illicit activity within its congregation. Weiss was indicted by a grand jury June 16, according to the court docket.
admin | June 25, 2022
Honors Two Bay Area natives, both students at Stanford University are among 60 students from around the world who have been selected for the 10-week Birthright Israel Excel, a business internship in Israel this summer.
admin | June 25, 2022
BUDAPEST (JTA) Antisemitic sentiment is especially prevalent in Italy and Hungary, according to multiple surveys. But a first-of-its-kind index combining different measures of Jewish experience found that they are also the best countries in Europe for Jews to live in.
admin | June 25, 2022
The plaques inscription on the memorial stone in the garden of remembrance at Oyster Bays Congregation LDor VDor captures the mission and vision of the late Holocaust survivor Annie Bleiberg. The quiet space brimming with perennial and annual flowers and shrubs and accented with benches honors the former Woodbury resident and beckons visitors to contemplate her legacy: a life dedicated to sharing her testimony of surviving the horrors of the Holocaust and standing up to anti-Semitism
admin | June 25, 2022
TEANECK, NJ A Jewish social services organization in New Jersey has received a $25,000 grant from State Farm on Wednesday, to help support its Corner Market Food Pantry, a free food distribution site in Teaneck that serves more than 3,700 clients.
admin | June 6, 2022
TUNIS, Tunisia The annual Jewish pilgrimage to El-Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba has rekindled the popular and political debate over the issuance in Tunisia of a law criminalizing normalization with Israel. The Palestinian cause is an issue that the majority of Tunisians support, even if this backing is often superficial. In a May 26statement,the moderate Islamist Ennahda movement denounced what they claimed was the exploitation of the pilgrimage to El-Ghriba synagogue to officialize forms of normalization with Israel.
admin | June 6, 2022
Our May 19 editorial was written after the massacre of Black people in a Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store. This is how that editorial ended: One day someone will write a book titled Bury My Heart at Newtown (26 dead); or Bury My Heart at Charleston (nine Black men and women murdered in their church); or Bury My Heart at El Paso (22 dead in a Walmart); or Bury My Heart at Pittsburgh (11 murdered in a synagogue).
admin | June 6, 2022
On June 20, we celebrate World Refugee Day. My grandparents came to the United States as refugees.
admin | June 6, 2022
A DJ clicked play on a Lionel Richie song, and the percussive early bars of All Night Long began wafting through the air as people gathered in line to pick up that evenings meal. It was a sunlit weekday afternoon along Jefferson Avenue on Buffalos East Side, where several days earlier, 10 people were shot to death and three wounded at a Tops Markets store. The suspect, a white supremacist, claimed in a hate-filled screed to be targeting Black people.
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