admin | May 23, 2021
The executive director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo and the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League praised the U.S.
admin | May 23, 2021
The day before Shavuot, I had just returned home after spending time in Ashkelon, Sderot, and the Gaza periphery region, where I was assisting people who have been under constant rocket attack for the past two weeks as a first responder with United Hatzalah. I had spent my time treating the injured, evacuating buildings that had been struck by rockets, and helping wherever I could.
admin | May 23, 2021
Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Damon M
admin | May 10, 2021
When I was very young, what motivated me to go to shul on Shabbat morning was the fire station two houses away from the synagogue.
admin | May 10, 2021
PITTSBURGH -- For more than two years the Tree of Life - Or L'Simcha synagogue, on a hilltop corner in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh -- has sat heavy with memory but empty of worshippers.
admin | May 10, 2021
Daniel Libeskindthe architect who designed the new World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11 attackshas reportedly been chosen to refurbish the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, where 11 people were killed in an antisemitic mass shooting in 2018. Libeskinds appointment was reported by The New York Times on Tuesday; it states that he has been tasked with making it a functioning place of worship again as well as a memorial site.
admin | May 10, 2021
This weekend, the New York Police Department arrested 29-year-old Jordan Burnette, accused of perpetrating a three-day spree of attacks against four synagogues in New York Citys Riverdale neighborhood. He was charged with 42 criminal counts including several hate crimes. For three straight days last month, Burnette is alleged to have smashed doors and windows at these houses of prayer and invaded their sacred spaces, leaving behind a wake of strewn prayer books
admin | May 10, 2021
A bipartisan group of elected officials in Congress introduced legislation on April 8 designed to help fight back against hate crimes across the country. Its not hard to understand why. Hate crimes are up in Washington state and around the country.
admin | May 10, 2021
By SASHA KESLER (re: Weekend vandalism targets 4 synagogues, April 29) When I was 16, the Seattle Jewish Federation was attacked by a violent shooter on a Friday afternoon. A woman died, and four were shot mostly non-Jews, since many of the Jews already had left for Shabbat. When I worked at that federation several years later for a summer fellowship, the pain and trauma was still palpable.
admin | May 10, 2021
By ETHAN STARK-MILLER How should a community come together in the wake of hatred and find a way to collectively heal? Thats the question many in this corner of the Bronx are asking themselves after at least four synagogues along the Henry Hudson Parkway were targeted by a vandal last month. The natural first step?
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